Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
This is a wired bridal bouquet.
These dramatic sprays of orchids have thick, waxy flowers with five pointed sepals and petals (of approximately the same dimension) on each bloom and will last 2-4 weeks as cut flowers and 2-3 months as flowering plants.
Tulips continue to grow once the stem is severed from the bulb. More often than not you can use this growth to create an ever changing design. But sometimes you want that tulip to stay in the position it is placed.
Design 3:Wedding Tiara. This is a real Cinderella design, one moment scrubbing pots and the next getting ready for the ball.
Design 2: Up-cycle drinking straws to make tiny test tubes to hold the orchids on my willow twig blind.
Up-cycle the inner plastic ring from a roll of floral tape to make a wrist corsage. This design was also featured in the Italian floral design magazine Blossom Zine
Spring "Ice cream" posy with a Banana Leaf "cone"
My bag was woven from re-purposed wire and recycled fishing line and tiny stems of growing sweet pea plants and orchids
This was a Flower Fantasy Competition Design staged by the Helderberg Flower Club, Western Cape Association of Flower Arrangers
Floral Sushi Dinner, for two
"What Twisted Tales We Weave" design 2010 Floral Trends Design Group, South Africa.