Bowl bouquet
An impressive autumn bouquet with a brown frame, handmade vase and flowers in mostly shades of orange. The base is made using the chicken wire technique with 1.6 mm florist wire. Braided through this are young shoots from fruit trees, prunings from the garden and therefore free. Together with the wire, these form a kind of basket. There are also woody mossy branches in the basket that were blown out of the trees in the garden after a big storm. This old dead wood is not only decorative but also technical: they lend themselves well to incorporate the Physalis seed pods between them. Each of the seed pods was put on wire and joined together to form branches. Beautiful expressive flowers were placed between all the branches: Celosia, Gloriosa, Zantedeschia, Guzmania, germinis, chrysanthemums and beautiful bee materials such as Talinum, Hypericum and Sanguisorba.
Better together
A delightful set of beautiful objects whose base can be easily reused. The base is self-made from two decorative garden plugs in flower shape - when purchased they were flat. The two plugs were drilled into the wooden blocks and unfolded to make them spatial. To create even more possibilities, thick aluminum wire was worked through and around them - so that tubes can be easily attached to them and flowers woven through them. Zantedeschia lends itself beautifully to braiding through the frame, with the stems also joining in nicely. Talinum 'Long John' is dry processed here - it always dries in beautifully. In addition, Gloriosa, some orchids and Scabiosa are beautifully in place in these autumn objects.
Mushroom hat
This autumn bouquet was inspired by the hat of a mushroom. 'A free interpretation, admittedly.' As a base, a frame was made from welding wires that was then wrapped with Oasis Rustic Wire. The flowers - Gloriosa, Kniphofia, Crocosmia and tendrils of Rosa 'Smeralda' - were woven through the frame with some of the flowers incorporated inside the frame. This creates depth in the bouquet. The stems are deliberately left long so that the whole looks like a kind of mushroom.
Garden Bouquet
For the base of this hand-tied garden bouquet, we started with a large branched head of wild dill from the roadside. Other flowers such as Rosa 'Darlington', Gerbera 'Pasta Rosata', Anemone 'September Charm', Gloriosa 'Rothschildiana', Lilium 'Red Velvet' and Clematis 'Star River' were incorporated into a hand-tied corn sheaf bouquet, the rose-red roses from our own garden completed the look. The bouquet is placed in a blue chandelier earthenware pot. Graceful tendrils of passion flower are wrapped around the entire bouquet, stripped Asparagus branches create an airy effect.
Wavy
Holes were drilled at random on two wooden boards into which copper welding wires of different lengths were inserted to create a wave. Small glass tubes are attached to the ends with tie-wraps. Stripped Asparagus branches form the airy base. Inserted into the tubes are Gloriosa 'Exotic Orange,' Asclepias 'Soulmate,' Anemone 'September Charm' and Briza media.
Surprise Bouquet
The base of this surprise bouquet is a bowl made of salmon-colored aluminum wire (2 mm) using the chicken wire technique. The flowers, in bordeaux, deep red and lighter shades, are incorporated into the bowl shape of the frame along the sides, the stems also holding up the frame. Some of the flowers have special shapes such as Guzmania, Phalaenopsis, Chrysanthemum, Gloriosa and Celosia. In between and along the outside are incorporated Sanguisorba, Talinum, Scabiosa, Clematis Amazing Kibo, lisianthus, Zantedeschia and grasses.