Today's time

In the background, a piece of wooden beam (leftover wood), in a regular rhythm, a number of gold-colored metal fern-like leaves are placed: very tightly straight up. On the contrary, to create a nice contrast between the two elements, the flowers are placed organically. The arrangement symbolizes the times of today where the golden ferns are the people, and the flowers are the surrounding nature. Very different and yet not clashing, they form a beautiful whole.

Back to nature

A beautifully robust slate container is filled with Oasis Terra Brick. Incorporated in this are many different unusual varieties of flowers placed as they naturally grow from the earth. A beautiful mix of French tulips, orchids, Cambria, Ludisia, Cornus, Talinum 'Long John', Osmunda fern curl, Ranunculus and Nerine are incorporated here. All materials are biodegradable, and can be returned to nature.

Beautifully fragile

A fully biodegradable arrangement with beautiful water carriers in a beautiful model. The water carriers have an opening at the bottom that exactly fits a tonkin stick. The tonkin sticks are then placed in drilled holes in a beautiful wood disc. The water carriers incorporate beautiful fragile flowers with thin stems. Cutting the tubes shorter widens the opening to fit thicker stems. Talinum 'Long John', Clematis, Cambria orchid and a beautiful purple Gloriosa are incorporated as they grow in nature.

Flower Garden

The icing on the cake

The base of this dainty floral ensemble is a brown Bio Cake dummy from Smithers-Oasis that has been dipped several times in candle wax. This makes it waterproof - and you can also use this base as such. The flowers are vegetatively inserted into the floral foam. The brown variety may remain visible and can therefore do with fewer flowers. Placement of the flowers and materials is very precise: all flowers must have their own place. Make sure that you insert them well at once so that no holes can be seen in the floral foam.

'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!