Using Greening Pins On Green Sheet Moss

Learn How To Rust Greening Pins

I love to use green sheet moss to cover my floral foam when designing a floral arrangement. You can use green sheet moss to cover styrofoam when using permanent botanical arrangements or you can use it to cover your floral foam when you’re designing with fresh flowers.

Many times people will just take a green floral wire and cut it approximately 4 inches long and then bend it into the shape of a hair pin to create a pick that will hold the moss in place once you have put it on top of your foam. However, professional florists use greening pins. These pins are used to secure a variety of things in the floral industry, but I love to use them to hold my green sheet moss in place.

However, one of my biggest complaints about the greening pins is that they are a bright silver color. And, when you put them into your moss, the silver glares and looks just horrible. So, I came up with a way to make my greening pins disappear. It happened by accident…actually. One time I went to the wholesale house to get some greening pins and the only ones they had were old and rusted so they sold them to me at a discount. But, what I noticed was that the rusted pins basically disappeared in the green sheet moss…much to my delight. So, I went on a mission to figure out how to get all of the greening pins I purchased to become “rusted” so they would disappear.

I learned this trick that I am now passing along to you: soak your greening pins in vinegar for a few days. I place the pins into a glass jar and then pour about one quarter of cup of vinegar (I use apple cider vinegar, but any vinegar will work) and shake the jar so that all pins get covered with the vinegar. Then the next day, I will shake the jar again…getting more vinegar to cover the pins. Then, I remove the jar’s lid so that the pins will get air and pour out the remaining vinegar. Within two days your greening pins will be a beautiful rusted color. So…there you have it!

Rusted greening pins…who would have ever thought???

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