Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
It’s leaps of faith, grasshoppers
- 26 June 2024
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Grasshoppers
can only
jump forward.
There is no backwards
or sideways leaps
if you
are a grasshopper.
… so onwards we go, grasshoppers
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Tutorials
Lean a large pebble in a display container to keep your summer floral details exactly where you want them.
Conditioning poppies for floral arrangements.
Weave grasshoppers or butterflies (or fireflies) from palm leaves
It's sometimes difficult to place a tiny crystal or bead exactly where you want it.
Keep flowers in place by placing a lemon on the narrow rim of the container.
Most leaves and foliage can be slightly manipulated to curve or curl.
Using the design elements as mechanics to secure the design elements.
Wire and glue the driftwood at an angle to balance on a pebble
Create a contrasting base to lift the heavy flower-head to design in
It all started with my twig being just too small to wedge into the glass vase tight enough to keep my orchid stem in place...
Such a peaceful design with just enough float and "stay put" elements
Pebbles are a great way to weigh down or keep your floral material in place. Here's a way to dress them up a bit
Carefully manipulate and bend green willow stems to place in water to sprout as an armature for tulips to mature and open
Related Designs
Display tiny design details in a budvase by crafting a stopper-frog.
Create a subtle contrast by floating or anchoring some of your design elements.
Sometimes creative blunders becomes creative inspiration
To commemorate Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee and the 20th Anniversary of Friends of Government House Gardens Society a Horticultural event was hosted in the gardens and...
Weave a spherical support to place long stemmed flowers into a bud vase.
All natural design using the design elements as mechanics.
A design so fine you can easily miss it... if it were not for the interwoven pebbles catching your eye.
Add design elements that serves a purpose for a minimal summer inspired floral design.
Manipulate fresh willow stems to create a sprouting armature for long tulip stems