Kiwi vine

 

Side view

Hello all,

Vicky had pruned her kiwi vine and brought the cuttings to share with the class. It was a good opportunity to workshop this beautiful material. I've given you two views of my arrangement, above in which I used two pieces of vine, nandina domestica nana and an arum lily in a ceramic container.

Vicky had sprayed her vine a dark blue and placed it in the smaller of the two glass vases at the back with the bulk of the 'curls' floating in front of the larger vase, in which she placed alstroemeria psittacina leaves.

Jenny used a Paul Davis, ceramic vase and begonia leaves that picked up the colour of the container. The placement of the vine created form and space.

Nicole used an aeonium flower, which is quite heavy necessitating a heavy container.

I had asked the students to use the vine in a way they had not done so before and Lucy took those instructions seriously. She used a large, cylindrical, glass vase into which she placed the vine and a single dietes leaf. She took great pains to have the leaf continue the line of the vine.

Shaneen and Lei had the same theme - 'Fruiting Branches' and, by coincidence, they both used cumquat branches, from which they removed almost all of the leaves.

Shaneen used a heavy, ceramic vase into which she placed stones to add more weight so as to balance the heavy fruit, which were leaning to one side. She kept a similar colour scheme with the wattle and kniphofia.

Lei also used a heavy, double container but placed all her materials into one. She used with the cumquats a sprig of fragrant geranium.

Wendy's theme was 'A Freestyle Arrangement to be viewed from all sides'. She used pittosporum branches, white ceder, wattle and nandina domestica nana in a metal vase. I've included photographs of two views.

Mary's lesson was 'With Leaves Only'. She used a monstera leaf, cut sharply into a triangle, curled up arum lily leaves and New Zealand flax, which was split lengthwise, in a ceramic container.

Bye for now,

Emily