How the work is actually done

Almost everything about making a flower from wire and fibre comes down to three operations, repeated in different orders. You form a loop, you secure a twist, and you bind a bundle. Once you can do those three, the rest is judgement.

None of them are difficult on their own. What's difficult is doing them identically twenty times in a row, by eye, with no jig to help you. That's the whole skill, and it's why a bouquet takes several hours to build.

These articles describe the operations as they're actually performed rather than as a tidy diagram would show them, and they include the places where the tidy version doesn't survive contact with real material.