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Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

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How to design with tulips

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Leaning tulips in a spring arrangement

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Floating a glass bowl in a design

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Minimalist floral design ideas

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Freestyle ikebana floral design

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Tulips continue to grow when severed

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Original ideas for foam free floral designs

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Zero waste flower arrangement ideas for florists

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Have a Happy Valentine's Day Flower Friends!

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Tutorials

10 February 2021 Float a swirling vine nest in a small vase to help keep your flowers in place

Turn a flower vase into a bud vase by floating a smaller container inside the larger one.

3 January 2011 Syringe with tube

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

8 July 2015 Using a pin to place tiny dew drop crystals

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

11 February 2015 Willow Heart Wand

8 February 2017 A Sprouting Spring Twig Heart

Carefully glue a twig armature to display the mini-miniature Darling orchids

1 February 2012 Love Bug

Heart shaped rosery vine and pine love bug

31 December 2014 Stacked Table-Top Twig Heart

Stack and glue moss covered twigs into a heart shape

10 September 2012 Braid a Celtic heart knot

Braid or knot a traditional Celtic heart with foliage

14 February 2018 Wire two Equisetum shoots into a heart

A wire in the hollow cavity inside a shoot of equisetum makes it easy to manipulate into a heart

7 February 2012 Moss Heart

Biodegradable copper mesh makes the perfect shape to fill with moss to grow tiny stem plants

10 July 2012 Bark covered heart

Cover cardboard with bark to create a heart shaped log

21 January 2015 Braiding three Tulip stems

Plait Tulip stems

21 March 2012 Where to cut Tulips to condition

Here is a trick to make sure your tulips will condition thoroughly

Favourite Flowers

Tulipa

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Ceropegia woodii

Rosary vine, Chain of Hearts, Collar of hearts and String of hearts

Related Designs

14 February 2024 Spoiler Alert: It’s You

A birch bark heart for Valentine's Day

28 February 2024 When the Super-duper is taking it Easy-peasy

Easy does it design that hints at but is not yet as intensive as the fun basket weaving and crafting that comes with Spring designing.

11 February 2015 Love Spell

Weave willow to create a heart shaped wand design

8 February 2017 It could hold

A fragile looking heart made from twigs that can hold a lot of orchids

31 December 2014 The sound of a kiss

Stack and glue twigs into a table top heart

14 February 2018 Two Are

Equisetum Valentine's hearts

12 February 2020 Parallel Hang Ups

While waiting for the blossoms to open... why not weave in a touch of Valentine's Day love?

16 November 2011 Winter formal

The elongated heart shape Echeveria waist corsage is meant to be worn low around the hip as a trailing ribbon clasp.

7 February 2012 Grow Love

Love grows!

10 July 2012 Sticktoitness

Glue a heart shaped design made from bark and wood.

10 January 2013 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...

15 January 2014 Love at second sight

This is my article that I wrote for the Valentine's Design Issue of Canadian Florist Magazine

21 January 2015 Tiptoe through the Tulips

Braid Tulip stems to set in water