Alchemy

Line and position pretty autumn leaves.

Temporarily adhere a traditional Ikebana Kenzan or pincushion to a shallow container.

How to keep Lilies in bud for longer. Removing the pollen. Stringing a Lily Garland.

Our goal as designers is to create the best environment for our flowers to stay as beautiful and fresh for as long as possible. When we condition flowers we always remove any...

How to place various sizes of plant material in a Kenzan

Most of the time I would gently tug the pollen covered stamens away the moment it becomes yellow and messy. But the Gloriosa looks rather pretty with the stamens on, so I fix it...

Sometimes you want to keep flowers in tight bud for as long as possible to suit your design

Design in two levels by using two vases, the smaller slipped into a bigger one.

Lily

Create a subtle contrast by floating or anchoring some of your design elements.

Perfect stems, perfect flowers. Needs nothing more.

A hoppingly-fun Spring design for Easter.

Loop a grass veil over a lily stem to create a minimalist summer design.

Cut stems of Gladiolus to place in a radiating summer design.

A tiny Spring detail to add to a cute little floral design.

Frame a single perfect Bleeding heart flower in a leaf dot.

Ever seen an eucalyptus flower? This is... and is not one.

A radiating summer design that waves in the slightest of breezes.

A small design to display those last Spring snippets from your garden...

A bit of a rethink as the season is getting ready to change. How can I give my design idea a fresh twist?

It's the little sun-washed coloured hints that makes you look again to see if you really saw what you thought you saw... yes! There really are signs of autumn everywhere!

A bark armature standing on pointe for some gorgeous blue King Tut sweet peas

Creating a larger sustainable floral design by clustering the floral details into bunches.

Using a traditional Ikabana Kenzan to place flowers in a shallow container

A quick and easy Kenzan design

Bind a lily to create a trumpet shape as it opens

Weave blades of grass to create a cover for a glass vase

Weave a palm thorn garland to decorate for Easter

Hana Kubari lily stems

My bark bowl design and tutorial featured in the Centrepiece Wedding Magazine

Spiral roll a snail to add to this sunny design

Use snips and snippets and leftovers to create a design of it's own

Three Lilies plaited to create a sensational, singular flower "growing" out of a Equisetum dome filled with Rainbow Oasis pebbles.

It's not really what we call things that matter but what they are made of- in this design, it's made of all three types of Oasis and wool.