Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
When Autumn Fall
- 6 September 2011
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The flower market is stocked with berries and pods and pumpkins of all shapes and sizes.
And even though autumn officially starts on September 23 you can already feel it in the air and slowly coloured leaves are fluttering to the ground
Its a temptation to great to resist. I just had to gather an entire basket full of leaves to make my composite rose.
Poppy seed heads (Papaver somniferum) and the pistils of Lisianthus (Eustoma) flowers are arranged on a twig and lily grass collar. The composite rose is made from Katsura Tree (Cercidyphyllum japonica) leaves
The poppy seed heads are in water filled test tubes. The bit of weight on the ends of the seed heads helped to balance them as they hanged over the design.
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Tutorials
I used to make baskets full of these when I was a little girl. We had a big Acasia thorn tree and I used to spear my “roses” onto the tree pretending I was the fairy responsible...
Create a light and transparent collar-base for the large composite flower to nestle into.
A t-wire create a stem to insert grass or twigs to shadow a design without laying flat
Favourite Flowers
Poppy with poppy seed heads
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