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Knot horizontal palm fronts in place to create a support for heavy flowers.

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

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

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

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.

Stack and wire a twig mushroom armature

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

An old trick... but still a great one to support thin stems in the needles of a Kenzan.

The trick to any freestanding design is to get your first three stems standing stable and secure in the water. Once you have that you can build the design around it.

Craft a spider from twigs and a chrysanthemum

Create a contrasting base to lift the heavy flower-head to design in

A hidden water source small enough to fit into a dainty flower.

Dry fall leaves to create a ball shape structure

Sunflower

Spike a wire frame into a disk floret for a light summer design.

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

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

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

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!

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

My Halloween design... with some scary stuff hidden if you can read between the leaves!

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

Balance the heavy Protea flower head to lean against a rock.

Filling a trumpet flower cup... with more flowers!

dry autumn leaves into an acorn shape