Make the design

Reed Cradle Armature

Glue reeds on a wire frame to create a dimensional armature to suspend orchids in

Drinking straw "test tubes"

When you need to keep a tiny stem hydrated this is just what you need.

Brick on a stick

Create simple but effective stands for Floral Art

Syringe with tube

Easy way to fill test tubes and easiest way to remove water from a vase

Fast way to fill a lot of test tubes in awkward places

I do not believe in arranging flowers without a water source of some kind. I want my flowers to remain as beautiful for as long as possible and I often get quite creative to ensure a water source for even finer stems and blossoms.

Stacked Twig Roundabout

This is a great way to use all those bits of twigs and sticks in your design room to make a floral armature

Mikado Reed Line-up

Creating a good quality armature makes it effortless for you to replace flowers, as they fade, with fresh blooms for an ever changing and long lasting floral design.

Weaving a pod shape from ripped foliage

Weave a pod shape armature

Fluffy Washi Caterpillar Armature

Long Lichen branches to dress up a curvy vase

Secure two lichen covered branched to rest around the neck of a curvy vase.

Skewered Eucalyptus leaf line-up armature

Thread leaves through wire

Bending blades of grass to shadow over a design

Three Twig Bundle Braid

Braid bundles of twigs to create an armature for flowers to dance in

SHAPE

Chrysanthemum Hourglass

Veiled Sunshine:50th Anniversary of the South African Orchid Society at the Cape Town Convention Centre.

Bright and sunny cymbidium orchids and roses, lilies, lisianthus and pincushions

Oh, What Twisted Tales We Weave

"What Twisted Tales We Weave" design 2010 Floral Trends Design Group, South Africa.

Ground Breaking

Water stream breaking through ground in an autumn forest.

Harnessing the Wind

In the Bag

My bag was woven from re-purposed wire and recycled fishing line and tiny stems of growing sweet pea plants and orchids

Nuts and Bolts of Floral Art Mechanics

My design entered for evaluation at the Floral Trends Design Group meeting in South Africa

The Beauty in the Sleeping Woods

As a floral artist I am inspired by the endurance of nature and my work is still re-creating the Sleeping Beauty Castle of my imagination.

Making an effort to appear effortless

Effortless is hard work! Effortless is difficult to achieve! Effortless takes years! The reward is exactly that; your work will be without effort. My article in the Canadian Florist Magazine

A quirky kind of Love

Retail florists and wholesalers are already designing, ordering and preparing their product range for Valentine's Day. This is my article that I wrote for the December 2012 Valentine's Day Design Issue of Canadian Florist Magazine

Natural, naturally

Weave a armature to rest a lily on

Fluffy

Fluff out Washi paper to create a delicate armature

Personal Preference

The third design I did for my book launch demonstration looking at aspects that influences my effortless style of designing.

About a line

Skewer and line up leaves to create an armature

Oh just...

Braid a few twigs to dance around your flowers

Phalaenopsis

Phalaenopsis orchid detail from my Harnessing the Wind design

Ceropegia woodii

Pompon Chrysanthemum pom-poms and strands of Rosary vine for my floral lariat necklace in the Canadian Florist Magazine

Tillandsia Usneoides

Detail of my Stringing in the Rain design with Spanish moss, wool, hydrangeas and lilies.