Floral History Timeline

  • Egyptians
    2800 BCE

    Egyptians

    Flowers, garlands, and wreaths
  • Greeks
    600

    Greeks

    Flowers, garlands, wreaths, symmetrical, and triangular
  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    Hundred Years War

  • Flemish
    1400

    Flemish

    Different shapes, colors, and textures
  • Renaissance
    1440

    Renaissance

    Bright, natural, large, and symmetrical
  • 1453

    Start of the Renaissance Era

  • Barogue

    Barogue

    Symmetrical and asymmetrical, S-curve, and large containers
  • Thirty Years War

  • Early America

    Early America

    Household containers, any flowers
  • Bishops’ Wars

  • Period: to

    War of the Polish Succession

  • Colonial Williamsburg

    Colonial Williamsburg

    Fan-shaped, grasses, flowers, foliage
  • American Federal

    American Federal

    Few flowers
  • Victorian

    Victorian

    Foliage and grasses, low containers
  • Philippine-American War

  • Modern

    Modern

    Combined line elements from the Japanese and mass designs from Europe.