Tuesday Bouquet: "Crescent"

 

xThis week's Floral Arrangment class project contained:

One Protea 'Pink Ice'

Four Veronica stems 

Five Delphinium stems (mine were white)

White Genista 

Pink Carnations

Myrtle foliage stems

Usig the Protea as the center and focal point of the arrangement, we were to construct an asymmetrial crescent shape with the myrtle foliage and Delphinium.

One Veronica flower at each corner and the Genista, Carnations and Myrtle scraps to fill and cover the foam.

The Veronica got lost in there:

We were instructed to gently bend and trim the Myrtle stems to create the crescent's curve.  I didn't quite get there, but most students didn't, either.  If you happened to get some curved Myrtle stems you were in luck.  

Despite the curve-achieving issues, it was a fun arrangement to put together.  This was intended to be an arrangement based on line--the curved crescent line.  "Line based" arrangements, we were told, are tricky.  The human eye will follow lines, and you want it to follow the crescent.  

What we were lacking was time--there was a lot of talk before we started about the florist industry and the famous LA flower market, so after that we were all rushing to finish before the room needed to be vacated for the next event.  It felt like aerobic flower arranging.  But, fun.  This one seemed easier because after six or seven of these sessions I have a somewhat better sense of what to do.  Practice sure helps. 

The no-foam arrangement from two weeks ago was finally ready to be composted.  Here's the photo of the florist-tape support grid.  I can re-use it and re-do the arrangement with garden flowers.  The 1/4" wide florist tape is plenty sturdy.  Note the tape goes all the way around the container, across the top, down one side then across the bottom and up the other side until it comes back to stick to itself.  Firmly.  Four of those:

Back home in the garden, plenty to do but feeling "stuck" again.  We got over an inch from the three storms that came through over the past several days.  We are at 6.78" total for the season, half of average.  The lucky thing is the rain seemed to have arrived exactly when the plants were ready to grow.   Everything is growing but my energy level.  

 

It's waiting for me:  

Big flush of Callistemon 'Slim' flowers any day now:

Roses waking up!  'Pink Gruss an Aachen':

  'Comtesse de Provence':

Hellebores--'Fire and Ice':

Another 'Blanche Ito' Leucospermum opens

I hope my gardening mojo comes back soon.   Hope yours is thriving.