This month for Martha Washington Garden Club Virtual Little Show is “A Present” holiday arrangement. A creative design with an emphasis on gift giving, may be on top of a gift box, basket or bag .....
I have a bag of Christmas candies for you to say “Merry Christmas”!
Materials: Reused Amazon gift bag, rose, lily, pine, nandina and baby’s breath. Flowers were from a beautiful bouquet, my daughter sent to me for my birthday. Many thanks, my dear!
When I am busy doing Ikebana, sometimes I forget minding my orchids. I was a little surprised by this Cattleya. I did’t know what it would look like until it reached full bloom. It’s so pretty and fragrant too! I checked the same orchid in my older post, 1/2/2020. It had two blooms, even more beautiful!
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| Cymbidium, faithfully bloom every year |
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| Close up view |
For the December 14, 2020 Zoom class, I made three arrangements for the holidays, two for Christmas (one posted already) and one for the New Year. Actually they are required subjects for this month.
I purchased white lily and mums for the flowers I needed, the other like Winter berry and nandina which grown beautifully in my garden. Long lasting evergreen Christmas holy that you can see everywhere! These were my main materials for Christmas arrangement.
MERRY CHRISTMAS !
Merry Christmas!
Red, Green and White or Silver and gold are the main color for Christmas!
Materials: Nandina, yew and painted silver allium. Container: Tall glass vase with few colorful Christmas balls in it. Black and red base used, I could not tell which one looks nicer?
Autumn Cherry trees are stunning and unique, offering up small clusters of flowers not only once but twice a year, spring and late fall. The bloom in the late fall is not as full, and these trees might need more time to mature. My husband planted two trees in our back yard when we moved here three years ago. Now, I can cut one branch for my Ikebana arrangement!
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| Cherry blossom, nandina, mum, yew and anemone leaves |
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| Autumn cherry (12/1/2020) |
The Ikebana International Philadelphia Chapter invited all it members and schools to take part in a new online exhibition titled “Happy Fallidays”. As Autumn gives way to Winter, we celebrate many different holidays and we enjoy the seasonal materials only available at this time of year. With that in mind, we are all encouraged to create and share the “Holiday or Autumnal” arrangement of our choice.
My choice is Autumnal: Using dried big leaves found on the ground, other materials like Hinoki, mums, bittersweet and driftwood that I already had in hand, I created this “Late Fall“ free style arrangement.
Mainline Sogetsu Study Group Zoom class for November 9:
1) Basic Slanting Style #2 Nageire. To be critiqued by Hata Sensei. we must take photos and email them to her. The critique will be in next month Zoom class. (12/14/2020 )
2) Morimono
3) Fall free style arrangements (please see previous post)
These three subjects of arrangements were done before my operation date.
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| Front view, maple, mum and dahlia/ ceramic |
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| Side view |
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| Another side view |
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| Top view |
November 9/2020, in our zoom class meeting, Hata Sensei demonstrated basic Slanting Style variation #2 Nageire, Fall Morimono and Fall free style Arrangements. I made all these three subjects before surgery. Whoever submitted this Fall free style, could get Sensei’s comments this time. Other subjects will be critiqued in next Zoom meeting.
Sensei gave me very positive and good comments for my fall arrangements. I was delighted! Thank you! Sensei.
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| Mums, crape myrtle seed pod, leaves and bittersweet / ceramic |
I made this arrangement before my surgery for my own pleasure, which inspired by Hata Sensei’s demo, using self made basket. The second arrangement was for fall theme. (see next post)
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| Side view |
