Bowl bouquet

This bowl-shaped frame bouquet was made from black 1.4 mm pokes using the chicken wire technique. Then long garlands were made from the shoots of fruit trees and copper-colored bouillon wire. Make sure that these short pieces of branch are well dried, so that they do not shrink, before wrapping them. Guzmania flowers, Gloriosa, Talinum 'Long John', Scabiosa, spray roses and chrysanthemums were incorporated!

'Always keep your eyes open'

Floral designer Hanneke Frankema likes to make her own bases and, if possible, use them multiple times. 'Christmas comes back every year, certain materials give - by using them slightly differently - a nice twist to the
Christmas arrangements. For this Christmas special of DPK, I created a lot of commercial ideas.'

'My motto is: Always keep your eyes open. For example, in a
store a kind of metal tray with a mirror. Removing the mirror left decorative gold rings. With a frame of pokes underneath, an ideal base for bouquets was created. But you can also place this base beautifully on a tray with loose flowers incorporated between them.'

'Every year you come across bags full of pine cones. Often they are used as cheap filler in Christmas arrangements but this time I incorporated them into a wreath shape. This gives a robust look that combines beautifully with other natural materials. It's useful anyway to think about bases that you can make far in advance and to which only a few fresh materials need to be added before they go into the store.'

'Beautiful details, which are relatively inexpensive and quick to create, can also make a difference. Think of incorporating matching baubles or handmade stars from aluminum wire. I also really like simple solutions like Kalanchoe leaves that complete the look. And yes, so always keep your eyes open.'

Luxury in harmony with nature

In the theme Luxury in harmony with nature, connection with nature plays a leading role. The arrangers have chosen mostly traditional techniques and natural materials. The appearance is that of grandeur and exclusivity. Festive yet understated. Serene but also cozy and warm.

Lilac

A frame made of flat lilac aluminum wire, with a large and a small metal ring wrapped with lilac bouillon wire. The stem is made of 5mm thick aluminum wire again wrapped with lilac bouillon wire. Between the flat aluminum wire is created a kind of opening of a wreath. Here the decorative Talinum 'Long John' is incorporated by putting the side branches on long strands of wire. These have been processed together in the form to form a fairly compact whole and therefore form the base into which all the processed flowers are glued in and on. The flowers used are: Clematis, orchids, Madiba chrysanthemums, Polianthes tuberosa and beautiful green-brown Gloriosa.

Steelgrass

Working with steel grass is labor intensive but the result is ever really special and it dries very nicely - so after the wedding the dried object can be kept for a long time. The steel grass is processed using a braiding and weaving technique around a base of wire. At the ends, a beautiful wrap is made with copper-colored bouillon wire. Two beautiful Gloriosa flowers make
't complete.

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.