Winter Challenge
To move from the colorful fall to winter is a different mindset for many people. Not that the colors completely disappear from the landscape, but it's all a bit more subtle and monochromatic. For florists, especially those who want to work more sustainably, that can be a challenge. Getting into the shell of nature, the bare branches with larch or pine cones, the evergreen greenery, mosses and dried tendrils - it takes some adjusting.
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
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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.
Twins
This set on two beautiful handmade bowls is stitched in bio-stitch foam from Smithers Oasis. The bowls are also the starting point for the shape - continuing the shape of the base into floral work is always especially powerful. All the flowers and berries are thoroughly cleaned. The leafless stems really participate decoratively in this story. The flower heads and berries are tucked into a kind of screen. There are many chrysanthemums incorporated as well as Hypericum berries: true autumn materials. Also discover the processed Astrantia, Scabiosa, Guzmania, Phalaenopsis and Dianthus.
Better together
A delightful set of beautiful objects whose base can be easily reused. The base is self-made from two decorative garden plugs in flower shape - when purchased they were flat. The two plugs were drilled into the wooden blocks and unfolded to make them spatial. To create even more possibilities, thick aluminum wire was worked through and around them - so that tubes can be easily attached to them and flowers woven through them. Zantedeschia lends itself beautifully to braiding through the frame, with the stems also joining in nicely. Talinum 'Long John' is dry processed here - it always dries in beautifully. In addition, Gloriosa, some orchids and Scabiosa are beautifully in place in these autumn objects.