A Research on the Preference for the Types of Cut Flowers Used in Working Women’s Floral Arrangement

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to provide basic data for selecting materials by exploring what types of cut flowers working women prefer when they make a floral arrangement. On the subjects of 19 working women (age 22.3±5.8, period of work 4.8±2.4) at S electronics company located in G city, this study conducted 10 sessions of a floral arrangement program once a week between April 21 and June 30, 2015. This study divided outward types of cut flowers into four items including line flower, form flower, mass flower, and filler flower, and provided materials for each session in the floral arrangement program. The results of investigating working women’s preferred cut flower types in making a floral arrangement are as follows. As for investigating preferences for the types of cut flowers, the type (design) other than the color was found to be paid more attention to, and among them, the type of form flower was most preferred with 40.0%, the type of mass flower 31.0%, the type of filler flower 14.8%, the type of line flower 14.2% in that order. As for plants with the highest preference for the type, firstly plants of the type of form flower found to be most preferred were Hydrangea macrophylla (21.1%) and Zantedeschia aethiopica (21.1%), mass flower Rosa hybrid ‘Spring’ (22.0%), filler flower Gomphrena globosa (32.1%), and line flower Typha orientalis (48.2%). Keywords: Filler flower, Form flower, Line flower, Mass flower