Hello all,
And Happy Valentine's day to the romantics among you.
The first, regular class for the year had to be postponed due to covid and was held last Wednesday. The theme I set for the advanced students was to make an arrangement using seasonal materials. Seasonal flowers are quite easy to find in Summer but leaves and branches are another matter. Any material that is available for more than one season is disqualified.
In my arrangement, above, I used crabapple branches with fruit on them, thus ensuring that they were seasonal. And I used the last of my gloriosa lilies to finish the arrangement.
Jenny used pineapple lilies (Eucomis) and one, quite amazing, orange flower called Fireball lily (Scadoxus multiflorus). The flower was so big that it dominated the arrangement, so Jenny partially concealed it with the pineapple lily.
Vicky also had an abundance of pineapple lilies. She teamed them up two of them with stripped agapanthus flower heads and crocosmia stems without flowers in a ceramic container. By keeping the agapanthus low, she emphasised the beautiful colour and curves of the stems of the lilies.
Lucy used kaffir lime branches, hydrangeas, agapanthus and crocosmia in a traditional, ceramic vase.
Bredenia also used crocosmia, agapanthus and hydrangeas in a ceramic container. This arrangement also addresses the theme 'With Flowers Only'.
Shaneen's curriculum piece was on the theme 'Using Fresh and Unconventional Materials'. She used New Zealand flax and agapanthus for the fresh materials and put together a couple of fan shaped structures from icy pole sticks, which she then sprayed red for the unconventional materials.
I leave you with this arrangement using a type of date palm inflorescence and hydrangeas in a ceramic container with openings on both sides. I found the dry material in the storeroom whilst looking for something else and got so distracted making this arrangement that I forgot what I was looking for originally.
Bye for now,
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