Light as a Kite

Using the disk floret of a sunflower to support your floral details.

When you need to keep a tiny stem hydrated this is just what you need. If you can't find a suitable drinking straw... I also have an upgrade: tiny food grade pipe water tubes.

It's sometimes difficult to place a tiny crystal or bead exactly where you want it.

Gently pull the petals ( Ray floret) from the seeded part of the sunflower

Making a truss out of sunflower stems for a free standing design

Stack and wire a twig mushroom armature

Adding tension to a design with a grass frame and collar.

Pick away the ray floret so that the disk floret of a sunflower can be used as a flat surface to display your design on.

Craft a spider from twigs and a chrysanthemum

I love using bits of flowers to add interest and texture

Sunflower

Phalaenopsis, Moth orchid

A tall vase for a short orchid stem summer design

Adding more to an autumn design... but leaving everything out that you don't need.

Create a upright design by supporting the flowering stems

Durbanville Flower Club: Nature's Treasures, A Floral Art Exhibition at D'Ville Shopping Center Durbanville, Western Cape, South Africa

Stack and wire twigs to create a twig mushroom with attitude for summer

Leaning floral stems to stand on their own in a shallow container

Zig-zag grass details add a bit of tension to the design

Use the heart of a sunflower as a platform to place your autumn floral details on.

Designing Contemporary Floral Accessories and Body Flowers Article in the Canadian Florist Magazine