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Green Fingers started out the year with a hands-on meeting:
"Team Flower Arranging Workshop". Seven different teams created unique
works for all to admire. Click each photo for a closer view.
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Sheri Donovan's team plunged into making
a sugar-pumpkin wreath, guided by Sheri's
words of experience concerning the proper
type of wreath base to use. This can go on
the front door or act as the basis for a
striking centerpiece Then they recreated a
sure-fire gift idea: take a tray of wheat
grass, decorated with a glued-on ribbon
around the edge, and insert golden
gerberas, each in a water tube--children
can do this!
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Ellen Avellino explained how flower
arranging uses the same principles as
couture designing: balance, rhythm,
contrast, etc., and her team used colored
aluminum wire, callas and orchids to create
elegant and unique "wearable
arrangements," which they modeled:
necklaces, "shawls," corsages and
bracelets. Possibly equally valuable were
her remarks on how to revive roses when
their blossoms droop after a short time in
the vase!
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Lilla Kelley and her team created a
dining-room table centerpiece that was
surpassingly light, ethereal, and beautiful:
clear glass bottles of various sizes rested
on white sand accented by sand dollars,
alternating with tea lights. The flowers
were field flowers such as cosmos in
shades of pink. Not only is it transparent,
for easy dining chat, but you simply
change the sand for moss and use a
different color scheme for a feeling of
another season. Below are two views of it.
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Below, Andi Putnam enthralled her team by
re-creating the mechanics of her marvelous
bicycle arrangement (from the Preview
called A Matter of Taste [?]. Cauliflower,
other vegetables and fruits combined with
rust-colored roses to re-enact a winner.
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Right, Beverly Watling and her
team put together a lovely
end-of-summer arrangement for
a dining table; elegant flowers
vied with the seed-stalks of hosta
from her garden in what she
called a quick-and-easy
arrangement for maximum
beauty and interest at the dinner
party--simply use the (non-) rule
of two to make the opposite sides
mirror each other, and insert one
element that no one has ever seen
before, to spark conversation.
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Above. Frankie Hollister took her team
through the process of creating a
spectacular arrangement of russet-colored
lilies and painted curly wood in a
rectangular vase decorated with croton
leaves, hot-glue-gunned to it. After only 30
minutes of arranging time, it was ready to
enter any flower show and win!
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Above, Barb Kaytes and her team created a
lush arrangement designed to grace a
kitchen counter or island; a variety of
exotic fruits (champagne grapes, figs,
lichees) and vegetables (kale, onions) and
greens (pale lavender kale, stalks used
separately) nestled into a bamboo steamer,
the 3 component parts leaning against each
other in a cornucopia of beauty.
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