More with less
The inspiration for this bouquet is the theme of sustainability – how to create a lot of impact with few flowers. The base is a structure of fine branches: Salix and Chaenomeles japonica. Vertical branches are attached to two circles of fine Salix branches. When the branches are firmly interlocked and the structure remains stable, the fine flowers can be added: Craspedia, Gloriosa, French tulips, Sandersonia and leaves of Begonia maculata leaves. Then, the whole is placed in a flat gold-colored bowl with water.
Symphony in yellow
Plastic dishes with Oasis have been placed between the small wooden logs of the substructure. The flowers in yellow and green hues are arranged in these: Ranunculus ‘Clooney Green Super’, yellow French tulip, Viburnum ‘Roseum’, Salix ‘Snowflake’, broom (Cytisus scoparius) and various dried grasses.
Blue treasure
A handmade unique bowl is filled with floral foam. The following materials are arranged in it; sprouting hazel branches with ‘catkins’ (Corylus avellana), tendrils of Dutchman's pipe (Aristolochia macrophylla), Salix viminalis, and blue grape hyacinths on bulbs (Muscari armeniacum). Feathers and quail eggs are glued onto the whole.
Spring statement
On a robust, self-made base of sawn and burnt wooden planks, large, rubber-wrapped injection tubes are placed for the water supply of the flowers. These contain pink Tulipa ‘Royal Ten’, snowball (Viburnum ‘Roseum’), Salix ‘Snowflake’, Amaranthus ‘Yearming Desert’, Helleborus ‘Mammoth Red’, Vriesea, Pieris japonica and Magnolia.
Grown together
Salix branches bent into a U-shape are fixed with 1.8mm braided wire. A refined selection of flowers is placed at different heights in this frame and tied in a sheaf: Chaenomeles, Nerine, Gloriosa superba ‘Simba Fifty Shades’, Ranunculus ‘Butterfly’, Scabiosa ‘Bon Bon Scoop French Vanilla’, Talinum ‘Long John’, Tulipa jonquieres, Panicum ‘Heavy Metal’ and Limonium ‘China White’.
Family
Salix branches are bound in parallel with deco wire around a number of robust glass tubes. The branches are positioned a few centimeters above the bottom so that they appear to float. To maintain this effect, the processed flower stems do not extend below the Salix branches. Flowers used: Polianthes ‘Epic Elsa’, P. ‘Epic Elle’, P. ‘Epic Eva’, Helleborus ‘Mammoth Red’, Clematis ‘Amazing London’, Talinum ‘Long John’, Nerine ‘Sofie’, Tulipa jonquieres, Chaenomeles.
The light and elegant arrangement works well as a complete presentation, but the various components can also be sold separately.