Green as grass
Lovely and oh so summery: various corn stook-bound summer bouquets. It starts with the fresh grasses, with the summer flowers being incorporated at the same height each time. Finally, a border of grass is tied around it. This creates fresh summer bouquets, an atmospheric decoration for a summer garden dinner. Materials used: Panicum, dill (Anethum graveolens), sunflower, aquilegia, and various native plants from the garden or roadside.
Floral ice creams
For this summery flower ice cream arrangement, cones and scoops are made of paper pulp with various dried flowers and grasses. The 'ice creams' are attached to the base at different heights with thick copper-colored floral wire, with cacti and Craspedia in between. Colored clay is processed to look like the ice creams are melting. An arrangement full of summer fun to enjoy for a long time.
Sweet and sour summers
Delicate stems of dried pan reed rise from a sturdy, robust concrete base. The reed stems form a grid of composed verticality. On this rest earthy organic forms of handmade paper from which an explosion of color springs; golden yellow dill, yellow-green Cymbidium, and bright orange Tagetes and slipper flower (Calceolaria). The flowers are placed in glass balls with a layer of handmade paper on top. At the base of this sweet and sour spectacle lie lemons and oranges for even more summer atmosphere.
This is summer, indeed!
A bouquet with all shades of salmon, orange and pink ‘captured’ in a circle of Panicum grasses. For a round frame, Chaenomeles branches, with beautiful thick flower buds sprouting, are tied together. The flowers are inserted in between: Campanula, Limonium, Tagetes, dill, Ranunculus ‘Butterfly’ and the spray rose ‘Femke’.
Along the waterfront
Dried sunflower stems are the basis of this beautifully narrow and tall construction. The dried Typha cigars form the height of this summery arrangement. Flowers in blue tones, Centaurea, Delphinium, Scabiosa and Clematis ‘Star River’, together with the fresh green grasses, form an atmospheric 'along the waterfront' scene.
Whirlwind
A twisted frame of Akebia vines is fixed with the aid of a kenzan ring and placed in a beautiful bowl. Dicentra, Euphorbia and Allium flowers are placed in a twisted shape between them.