'Reuse to Reduse'

Floral designer Hanneke Frankema is always looking around for substrates. That yielded her, for example, a set of beautiful wooden tables, one of which she was able to immediately deploy this edition. 'Keeping eyes open, I always say. For example, we had bought up leftover wood from a staircase maker, and what was underneath in the Big Bag? All beautiful cylindrical hardwood pieces in various sizes. I put them in a beautiful bowl and incorporated the flowers between them. Waste can be reused beautifully this way.'

'I also like to use (leftover) wooden boards and beams as substrates on a regular basis. For example, a piece of beam that was left over from the construction of my classroom next to our house found its way into an arrangement where it was used as a foundation. So what would normally be thrown away could now be used very nicely for an arrangement.'

'Old materials also regularly get a second life. For instance, as the base of a fine sweet heart, I used dried Craspedia - so I never throw it away! You can make beautiful dried and therefore long-lasting bases or objects from them. Also the bases themselves can often be remade numerous times with different and/or fresh materials. In short: reuse to reduse!

Nature, naturally!

For the special theme Nature, naturally! vegetative floral creations, as it grows in nature, are the starting point. Transparency also plays a major role. The arrangements are created as much as possible through the use of sustainable techniques and responsible materials.

Exuberant

The base of the base is a ready-made cylinder of branches. The branches are secured with nails that allow you to unfold the cylinder into a "bowl. With pruned branches from the garden, the base bowl is extended. In it, many tubes are attached with wire and tendrils of the Ceropegia sandersonii plant are incorporated. This super strong tendril stays beautiful for months without water. Braided through the branches and tendrils are brightly colored French tulips and Gloriosa. For added detail, several stems of Talinum 'Long John' have been incorporated.

Spring Love

The base of this delicate sweet heart is made of dried Craspedia whose stems are tied together in a heart shape with wire and mixed with fresh flowers. Beautiful to give at a birth, at a wedding as a ring cushion or as a mourning piece.

In a nutshell

An arrangement made on a base of tubes. The tubes are connected by rubber rings - and can be twisted into all sorts of shapes. A versatile surface that can be reused very often, useful for subscriptions. First of all, Talinum 'Long John' was placed in the tubes. Through this are woven the other spring flowers. Simplicity to great effect.

Classic still life

This lovely bouquet in the style of the still lifes in old paintings is suitable with lots of different beautiful types and colors of flowers. Definitely not the easiest flower arrangement to make. To mix the French tulips and Ranunculus with Bromelia and orchid species, each stem needs its own place. Moreover, the placement and also the choice of which species next to each other comes very precisely. But the result of all the effort is well worth the effort!