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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A country wedding, a
farmer’s market theme, held on a beautiful farm – what fun to put flowers and
vegetables together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In what<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">???</i> That’s the question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Round tables of ten, many round tables
of ten…and a obdurate caterer who wanted everything on the table from the get
go – bread service, cups, saucers, Sweet-n-Lo, cream, resulting in a terse
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">How about chicken wire –
very farm, yes? – baskets and various combinations of vegetables and
flowers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Above are three:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Left: eggplant/tomato/long green
peppers/rex begonia leaves/purple scabiosa; Middle: radicchio/purple onions/
pink potatoes/ celadon cabbage/feverfew/ purple verbena; Right: savoy cabbage/
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Trouble is you have to make
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persecuted as it now is called poultry netting! It comes in rolls in various
widths – 24” to 48”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using a 24” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>roll, cut the width in half, lengthwise.
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It is really a fold, crimp,
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little ends – though ouch! – bend around and hold the whole thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted all the handles to be slightly
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">After the wedding, the baskets
came back to me and they have been used often in many colors, up and down the
East Coast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At a Rare Plant
Auction donor luncheon at Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware, the theme encompassed
the spring flowers that were blooming outside in the gardens and woodland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The staff brought us armloads of them
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The copper color is my
favorite finish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Design Master makes
the best spray paint for this kind of project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This basket holds the fruits of this season – ornamental
gourds – plus some flowers from another design.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are tucked into a glass spice jar filled with water and
nestled between the gourds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In the Berkshires of western
Massachusetts, Route Seven is the bucolic north south route, winding through
rural communities and the ‘bright lights, big city’ of Pittsfield.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From Sheffield at the southern border
with CT to Williamstown at the northern border with VT, Route Seven is known as
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Gardening is almost as
popular with many fine shops, nurseries and local growers who put out a summer
table with an honesty box in their front yard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best of the home/garden/gift stores is Campo de
Fiori.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They operate a huge
wholesale business, supplying stores across the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their only retail store is on
route 7 in Sheffield.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Open every day but Christmas
and New Year’s, this beautiful store beguiles with gifts and products for all
the senses. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">From spring to autumn, the
gardens surrounding the store brim with ideas and fascinating plant
combinations along with one-of-a-kind objects that delight and surprise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Mexico is the main source of
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The huge building is
overflowing with plants real and faux, garden tools, candles and soaps, planters
and vases, pillows and lovely jewelry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Upstairs, furniture<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> - </span>tables & chairs - framed prints, accessories and more temptations all attractively
presented, waiting to be taken home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">You’ll find it hard to leave
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Structures were the theme of
flowerflinging Camp here at my studio in the Berkshires in August.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">One structure that I wanted
to create got lost in the merriment and the more fascinating ideas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Above is the forlorn project in the
garage. </span>I have to confess I have an
inordinate fear of soldering. Copper tubing is a wonderful, shapeable material and
it comes in coils of various diameter. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The larger the diameter the stronger the tubing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Last year at the Philadelphia Flower Show, the MOG and I
combined it with various orchids swooping in and out of glass containers with
great results – we won our class and Best of the Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>True confession: we found a handyman to do the soldering.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The first time I worked with
copper piping was on a long-ago entry at Philadelphia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Pinkster and I were in a class
called “Un Gran Gourmet”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We made
a giant whisk-looking structure which, as you see, was not without bumpy
imperfections. The whole design was close to six feet tall. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">After </i>the installation, a fellow
exhibitor told us about plumber’s tube bending spring set which keeps the
copper tubing smooth and kink free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Here are the tools of the
trade. Clockwise from top left, the tube bending spring set (what a mouthful); JB
Kwik Weld - acts like solder (Mr. GCA kindly sent this over for me to try); an
example of two pieces of tubing ‘glued’ with JB Kwik Weld; a piece of copper
tubing with a spring set slipped on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Here’s the gismo in
action!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It goes round and round
til it cuts through. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the
narrowest tubing for refrigerator ice makers, you can simply cut the end with
wire cutters but you are left with a crimped end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Using the two glue tubes mixed
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use enough of the black goopy glue and have enough surface where they meet up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is a spaghetti-like structure to which flowers or other plant material might be
wired. I worked the copper shape to fit in a tray pan (14” square,
jamaligarden.com).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These gladioli are attached to the
tubing in more than one place so they stay put. The thin copper wire is
supposed to be decorative. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not
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a half inch of the stems are submerged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For this group of montbretia <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Crocosmia aurea) </i>stems,
the tray is also filled with crushed shells (Michael’s Crafts).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are so pretty and they echo the
warm tones of the flowers and the copper while providing another texture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My nemisis……fear of
soldering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll take the twelve
step program and try to conquer it, but just not now……<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In August the effervescent
Tovah Martin came to the Sharon Audubon Center to share her enthusiasm about
the little worlds she creates and celebrates in her book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The New Terrarium”,</i> published by Timber Press.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">By recruiting an army of
terrarium converts, one in each office cubicle, Tovah believes the stress of
work would be greatly reduced and we would all be happier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">She compared the terrariums
of the 1960’s which were like science experiments to those of today which are
works of art – miniature worlds of calm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As you see all sorts of containers work for her, many of which she finds
in thrift shops for pennies.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When Bride and Groom came
for Labor Day weekend, we hiked the Appalachian Trail and made terrariums.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are fun and simple to make.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Above are our containers and Tovah’s
book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is best to work with a
container you can put your hand<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in
easily – we aren’t building <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ships
in a bottle!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The ‘ingredients’ are not
hard to find: stones, horticultural charcoal, organic potting soil, plus
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Given the small diameter of
our containers, we used mostly plants from 2” pots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Terrain in Westport CT features terrarium containers and
plants as well as Tovah’s book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
don’t need specialist plants, however, it is very easy to split a larger plant
into two or three. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The supermarket
often has small plants.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Let’s start with the layers.
First the stones – a layer of 3/8” stones will allow best the circulation of
water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Add a small handful of
horticultural charcoal and mix it in. This will keep the water sweet. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We mixed this separately and then put a
one inch layer in the container.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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potting soil goes on top of the stones and is leveled and lightly tamped
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The planting is just like
planting outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Make a
sufficient hole, plant and firm up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Do the ‘tug test’ to make sure it won’t pop out.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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before planting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simply add water
and a little misting.<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once the lid goes on the container, you are setting up a
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-no-proof: yes;">On the Appalachian
Trail we collected (shhh!) some pretty stones, cones and pieces of bark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These we added to the terrarium for
contrast. What a souvenir of the day!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is no end to the kinds of little objects you might want to
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">You may soon become an
addict, finding all sorts of containers and plants to use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Best to buy Tovah’s book and really
learn how to do it – a great project for school kids or a garden club workshop….
and be sure to have fun!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Boat shaped containers are
not easily found but worth seeking out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are versatile for many styles of design.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their curves make them less weighty than their rectangular
counterpoints. Subscribers know that my tables are long and narrow so I am
always in search of ways to march the designs down the tables.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Here’s the boat, with a
piece of Oasis inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Below I
have chosen one variegated ti leaf (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">aspidistra</i>),
could be any lovely leaf or leaves that fit inside the shape or not. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The pearl headed pins </span>just hold the leaf in place <span style="font-family: Arial;">(</span><a href="http://www.jamaligarden.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial;">www.jamaligarden.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">, Michael’s).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will last a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">long time</i> this way even though the stem is removed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">With a shear or knife cut a
slit in the leaf where you want your flower stem to go in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am using very short stems of lilies
here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These buds will open, though
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">To connect these designs I
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</span>These are from </span><a href="http://www.save-on-crafts.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial;">www.save-on-crafts.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">, but Michael’s, Pier One or other stores often have
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or you can paint fresh curly
willow, but those sticks are more irregular, which could make them more interesting but harder to work with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The willow stems rest between the flowers on the container and link up the arrangements. Do put the
vases in place on the table before you place the willow. These were from a</span> lunch for the ff
campers, using white lilies.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">At a dinner, using pink
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This version with sunflowers
were originally placed on red and white check tablecloths at tables in a tent for a very
country luncheon! Here they have come back to my table, none the worse for wear!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Doesn’t everyone have a
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">New pencils, books,
crayons……and those darn mums!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Tidy, roundy-moundy little
gumdrops for the landscape or doorways, they shout autumn which is why I hate
to see them pouring into the supermarkets and nurseries early in August.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to shout – not yet!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As cut flowers they are hard
to like, being stiff, uniformly branched and not in particularly pretty
colors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their best characteristic
(or not) is that they last forever!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We will remove those stiff
branches and use only their bright faces to create a pattern in a plant saucer
or other low shallow container.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
the interests of floriferous research, I counted 45 flower heads from bud to
bloom in one ten-stem bunch! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any low container, soufflé dish, baking pan or outdoor pot
saucer will work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just be sure it
won’t leak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This design will last
a long time if water is regularly added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">First fill the container
with long pieces of Oasis which are the same depth as the container.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can fill in the open areas as I did
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This design is all about
color and texture, not flower form. Biedermeier is a design style which calls
for formal lines of flowers which are inserted side-by-side to create the
patterns. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice (above top) how I
angled the longer stems so that the flower heads covered the open space where
there was no Oasis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used a cup
and a bowl to make the circle dents (technical term) in the Oasis to guide me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This technique is called
pave – literally from paving stones, which the flower placement resembles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have put a spider mum in the center and
allowed it to stand up a little taller than its cousins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Instead of an apple, what about one for the
teacher?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is in a tuna
can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe you will make them for bedside
trays at the local nursing home or hospital?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>flowerflinging Camp seems
months ago instead of three weeks. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> C</span>ampers of every age all over the US have returned home
for Labor Day. In a sort of last gasp effort, here are the rest of ff campers' creative images and ideas to inspire you.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This exuberant design is
constructed with Oasis placed on top of a candleholder. The pale leaves are
dried strelitizia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As they dry,
they form the most fanastic shapes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The dark leaves are cordyline with a beautiful light edge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Nominator made this
voluptuous structure from a roll of turquoise aluminum wire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I won’t go through how she did it here
but I will in a later post.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, I do have a new supplier of Oasis wire:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.marshalls.com/">www.marshallfloralproducts.com</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They not only have this but some
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When The Welder came to
ffcamp (see “<u>Attention Campers”</u>, August), many structures were made but
there was no time to design with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The MOG returned and promptly tried out her welded circle which sits on
a little metal plate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of good
tropical stuff in this design -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>anthurium, proteas, orchids, grasses and ferns – many of which pick up
the warm patina of the metal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Above is another version of
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</span>She has used more varieties of plant materials - sunflowers, croton
leaves, roses, large and small peppers – in a colorful scheme. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Inspired by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Tokyo Flowers</u></b> by Yuji Kobayashi,
Stichting Kunst Boek 2011, I tried to replicate his column of woven palm
leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The substrate is a rolled and glued column
of stiff paper with an opening made for fresh plant material.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wasn’t happy with the final result –
there is a reason they are the masters! – but it was an interesting exercise to
try. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Their bags packed & the
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Don’t kiss these frogs….not
one Prince will appear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before the invention of Oasis floral foam, flower frogs of all sorts were the beginnings
of every arrangement. In the 1920’s, 30’s and 40’s, these holders for the stems
of cut flowers often took fantastic forms and were as pretty as the flowers
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Stems were inserted in the
holes provided.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Although some of them actually were frogs, t</span>hey all were called
frogs because they sat in the water. They were made of ceramic, metal and glass and can be found on Ebay, Etsy and other sites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Today’s utilitarian pin flower holders have many sharp needles on which to impale a stem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They, too, come in many shapes and sizes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some above have a cup to hold the
water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The plastic one, right
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">These lead holders were wonderful gifts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Artistically shaped into bouquets of wonderful leaves, they are made of lead and very heavy. They have neither individual holes or needles so the stems slip into the spaces between the leaves which is excellent for tulips or other bulbs and branches which don't like to be in oasis. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Why not let them take
center stage and do the work (see "<u>The vase stands alone</u>" July)? I have placed them on an asymmetrical steel tray that is deep enough to hold some water, allowing one floating gardenia to fill the air with that
amazing fragrance.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Substituting clematis for
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Moving everything to a large
celadon shallow bowl (invaded by an iron bug), I have used the beautiful patterns of coleus
leaves to create some rich color.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
look even more beautiful underwater which makes the color sing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sometime I will try and kiss, er, use the frogs for flowers!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It is fascinating to think
of the huge quantities of mixed bouquets that are sold daily at corner stores,
supermarkets and farmers markets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Most flower stands have two to three times the number of mixed bouquets to bunches of one flower which attest to their popularity.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I expect that
most shoppers take them home and put them in a vase just as they come out from the
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This group at Grand Central
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the Cadillac of mixed bunches. Looks to me like 4 large callas, some purple statice, 4 red roses, yellow button mums, 3 godetia and a large lily (only in bud here).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and oranges looking like brain coral) and the gomphrena (pink and white
gumdrops).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thinking they could dry
in the arrangement as well as not, I challenged myself to make lemonade from
these, albeit, colorful lemons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I chose a honey bee ceramic
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bag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> OK so the direct ratio of my interest in mixed bouquets is in proportion to reuse of oasis!! If you want to reuse oasis, you must have a piece like this which has very few holes (technical term) where stems have been placed. The oasis must not dry out. It can be frozen(!) or kept in the fridge. B</span>e sure that any flower
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I won’t get in to the problems of the scale (size) of the flowers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I chose the modern mass style (see “<u>The
Pastels of June</u>”, June for the anatomy of a modern mass arrangement). First, I had to solve the problem of the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>two sunflowers looking like big brown
eyes!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To cope with that I kept
them together but at an angle to each other so you really didn’t see them side
by side, so no 0|0!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe one brown eye
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muted reddish cockscomb was clustered around one side of the sunflower, with other colors continuing around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using toothpicks in the cockscomb stem
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">By using the materials in clusters, the groups appear more as the same size rather than tiny gomphrena
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Not ideal, and the worst was
that when I returned home after a few days, the whole thing had been thrown out. My crop saving will have to begin again!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>These diverse designs inspired us all!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Nominator was making
this plexiglass structure for the second time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The curve and tension are created by tightening the
burnt siena twine until you have a balanced curve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ha! Easier said than done. There are two rows of holes at
each end of plexi and it is strung rather like a cat’s cradle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plexi flower tubes are also covered
with the twine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are inserted
between the interlocking twine and look like gorgeous orchid ice cream
cones!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The looped lily grass adds
elegance and rhythm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The MOG brought this
versatile wooden structure with a rotating panel at its center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You could not ask for more beautiful
harmonious plant material which includes anthurium, orchid, phormium calla
lily, ti leaves and leucadendron.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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2002).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using twisted Manzanita
branches and spectacular home grown lilies – (Lilium <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Scheherazade, </i>an oriental trumpet lily<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">)</i>, Lady S created a lively counterpoint to the symmetry of the
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was the theme of the third annual flowerflinging Camp held at The Barns this
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Judges Commendation to, left, Mr. GCA and right, The
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sunflowers by any name –
girasole, tournesol, or<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> himawari </span>- may not smell sweet as the saying (kinda) goes, but they always make us smile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here in the hills between Lakeville and
Sharon CT, two huge fields have been blooming away, transporting us to Provence
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With bronze sunflowers a
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The first weekend in August brings the Berkshire Botanical Garden Flower Show. The Garden hums with exhibitors, judges and visitors. "Garden on Fire" is the BBG's theme this summer as well as the theme of the design classes in "The Grow Show". <br />
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In design, my favorite class was called "Hot Tamale!" a design in a niche.<br />
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This artistic design was reminiscent of Flemish master paintings with the great variety of vegetables including top Egyptian walking onions (little purple clusters on long stems).<br />
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Precise symmetry is not easy using vegetables!<br />
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These delicate dainty vegetables are in perfect scale and skillfully arranged as they run up and down the design. <br />
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Many were grown by the exhibitor. Notice the flower made from a tomatillo upper right.<br />
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Using a combination of garden flowers including zinnias and onions to form a bouquet, the designer cleverly linked it to glass container. Also more use of walking onions with their clusters are on the top.<br />
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Colorful peppers were wired with gold (aluminium) wire to form an undulating chain inside the vase.<br />
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Matte black forms a dramatic backdrop for this bold design sitting on a upside down glass container.<br />
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This designer was the only one to incorporate tamales into the design. Notice, also, the draped cornsilk peeking out from the right. Both added great textural contrast to the smooth peppers.<br />
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Our horticultural ‘meet cute’
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Here is the pot et fleur with the changes to the group of materials. What was missing (picture one) is a cohesion of all the different colors and textures into one unit. This is a little better. Have fun with this!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span>The creative hands at the Berkshire
Botanical Garden used all manner of galvanized pots to create this welcoming
group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The grays play off the blue
spruce behind them and set off the warmer toned plants to perfection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lesson: what is sitting in your garage
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Still at the Berkshire Botanical, this
lovely column holds a monochromatic grouping with exciting contrast of form, all in green
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balance:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you love the large
alocasia leaves hanging out on the top, are not? Does it work because of the big pot? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Doesn't every talented person make their own boat? to use as planter?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This woven
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In honor of the same scheme, I planted my doorway pots - old British washpails - with orange lantana, purple nicotiana, coleus, bronze fennel and grasses. The fennel looks pretty good here, but not so good now.<br />
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that I don’t love, and my drawers are full of them. Now I am able to set the table with them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from Avril Loreti at Modern Home in Canada via </span><a href="http://www.etsy.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial;">www.etsy.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"> (once on the site enter ‘paint chip placemats’ in
the search box) and make a colorful splash on the dining table. The bands of color have names in
English and French: " you’re so
cool/tu es genial", "sunshine soak/embrasser le soliel", "gum ball/rose
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shape, a small oasis blob (technical term) inserted at one end, the mum or hydrangea
at the other. The leaf can be held by stapling it, using a glue dot, or using a pin from one leaf into the other. A few leaves were left without a flower or oasis, and the whole
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Last Friday at the Berkshire
Botanical Garden (www.berkshirebotanical.org), I taught a class called “Cutting
Edge Design: Not your mother’s flower arrangements”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We began with a brief power point on the exciting new
arrangements that take on the aspect of organic sculptures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we got down to the business of
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The students used these wonderful glass
plates with cobalt blue swirls (</span><a href="http://www.target.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial;">www.target.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> &</span> only online) in two
sizes, dinner and salad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Using two pieces of Oasis,
we set them up with an oasis between the dinner and the salad, and one on top
of the salad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A quarter slice of
oasis went between each plate, the edge covered by part of an aspidistra leaf. These are variegated leaves with random white striping.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The other materials were:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>white mini calla lilies, sky blue
agapanthus, bright pink roses, lime green spider mums, variegated
aspidistra, lily grass, galax leaves, bear grass, baby artichokes and small
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job!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Once they had assembled their plates - rather like making a floral an ice cream sandwich - they then chose where they wanted to put the fruits. Limes and artichokes were left whole in some places and sliced in half in others. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Despite the fact that they all used the same materials, each design had an individual flair. Rhythm is created by the
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interesting edge (see demonstration of oasis above, plates from Crate & Barrel) sets up a cool summery water-like aspect
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parallel to each other to hold the fruit into the oasis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oil of clove (health food, drug
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The design above was done several years ago in East Hampton. These plates are much larger and you can see I have used much more material including some white and green tulips and moss. No rules to this idea, its fun and sturdy! To keep the oasis moist put some ice cubes between the flowers and let them melt down.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span>the flower show: Loyalist Legacy</h3>
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<b>pediment</b>, the geometric triangle of classical buildings and <b>pentimento</b>, which, in one meaning, means delicate interlacing of lines. This contrast of form of the solid and airy would be the basis of my design.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The day before the show I bought my plant materials and conditioned them thoroughly, or thought I did. I took a first time chance on using the clematis as the show was only up for one day. In the end, they didn't fare very well....</span></div>
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Five bunches of Aspidistra leaves are used
to upholster the form. This was
the only part I practiced – several times – trying for as ‘clean’ a form as I
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This was my first
attempt (right). I used the side 'seam' of the structure to line up the pinned leaves (see below also) and let them overlap each other on the front surface. The hardware store yields a plethora of interesting pins/nails to be used in modern designs. The secret is that their use needs to make sense from a design point of view and to use them precisely, otherwise they become a distraction. However....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As preciseness is not quite in my skill set, I decided on another method which would hide any pins I needed to do the job. Because the aspidistra leaves have a stiff spine, I separated the leaves (right of picture) down the spine. They have a
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Starting at the top of the triangle overlap a leaf from left and from right to cover
the shape (left, above). Once you are about a third of the way – descending – one leaf half will fit from side to side.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> I
didn’t worry about the sides of the structure and their pins looking neat but just kept the tacks close to the
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were all covered, for the sides of the structure, put double stick carpet tape (Scotch brand) on the back of whole leaves (removing the spine where it starts to thicken), and overlapping the leaves vertically as in the drawing (right). The leaves on the front of the structure are placed starting at the top and going down overlapping each as you go. The sides of the structure are placed in reverse, beginning at the bottom and layering up. All of the leaves will last without water easily for several
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I did make rather a production of the base so that I wouldn't have to use a lot of gravel (Accent Decor) to fill it up. One can always take a LOT of gravel and just fill it up instead of doing it this way!</span><br />
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square tin tray, sprayed black then a </span>12" x 12" styrofoam. Place the base on the styrofoam. Fill in with torn newspaper strips to raise the level and top it off with 12” X 12” piece of black paper. Finally the gravel... </div>
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it didn’t sit straight, the rest of the design wouldn't matter at all. Wooden skewers held the two triangles together. Using m</span>ore padded newspaper to level between the top triangle and the larger one, more aspidistra leaves were then slipped in to cover the gap (whew!).</div>
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Summer's bounty</h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It is ‘high summer’ and our gardens and farmer’s markets are bursting with fresh vegetables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These can inspire us to use them in different colorful ways for our own enjoyment or for summer entertaining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With houseguest season in full swing,
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excitement?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This gorgeous artistry
had pride of place on the welcome table at the Dixon Museum of Art, Memphis TN,
in April.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kudos to the talented
person who sculpted this!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d say
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Victorian age, celery was a delicacy and was served standing at attention in
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theme.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> My</span> idea was to use the
celery with its stalks and leaves as a component in the design – but definitely
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components, with beautifully variegated cordyline leaves and asparagus
fern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These peppers are large and
are on skewers (always use pairs of skewers to be secure).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you dip the skewer in clove oil
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itself around the skewer and you won’t get fruit flies breeding in the opening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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squash and used a maidenhair fern plant (grocery store) still in its pot
(easily watered).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice how much 'quieter' the design is without the yellow and purple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All your vegetables will play well with others, so go and have fun with them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Berkshire wanderings....</h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">One part vanished stately
home, one part romantic garden, all parts serene and very much off the beaten
track, <b>Ashintully</b>, the Berkshire property administered by the Trustees of
Reservations <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><u>(www.thetrustees.org)</u></span>, provides a lush green landscape in which to spend an
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Early in the 20<sup>th</sup>
C, Robb dePeyster Tytus and his wife, Grace, built a 35 room mansion on a hill
overlooking the Tyringham Valley. Mr. Tytus died just after the house was completed,
and a year later Grace remarried and had a son, John Stewart McLennan, Jr.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Mr. McLennan spent childhood
summers here and inherited Ashintully when his mother died in 1937. Destroyed
by a fire in 1952, only the foundations and four Doric columns stand today. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He and his wife, Katharine,
lived below the hill in a farmhouse, with a separate music studio created in
the barn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An award winning
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When we visited last summer, Katharine was still living there and she charmed us with stories of her husband and the gardens. She described
her husband’s methods for working with the land, shaping it to his vision and
finding the perfect stone or plantings to carry out his vision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Above a dry stream bed gently curves
through the landscape, bisected by and handsome bridge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last summer’s visit was when it was hot
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ashintully is Gaelic for “on
the brow of the hill”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What hopes
and dreams must have been centered on that hilltop landscape and what a
romantic ruin it is today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It must
be spectacular in Autumn as the leaves turn and fall, opening up the view
from the mansion even more. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">PS I am teaching a workshop, "Cutting Edge Design: Not your mother's flower arrangement", at the Berkshire Botanical Garden (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><u>www.berkshirebotanical.org)</u></span> on July 20th from 10AM to 1PM. Do register and come! I will be blogging about it later this month!</span></div>
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Metals march down the table</h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In “Summer marches down the
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presence down the table. Here is
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tubes and metal wires were fashioned into ‘structures’ for flowers and grasses. Black-eyed Susan punctuate the roadsides
now, but the ones above are a daintier, cultivated variety. Lily turf grass, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lirope</i>, criss-crosses the design, giving it exuberant movement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> It is easiest to take advantage of the
coils to fashion the wire, rather than opening it up and completely reshaping
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The tubes
are wired on the ribbon oasis wire. Both of these are Oasis products made from
aluminum, come in the same 13 colors (!) and are soft and easily twisted. Match it or contrast it, or use another decorative
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Nestle in each tube firmly and attach it to the ribbon wire at two places. The tubes can be placed at random or
uniformly, depending on the effect desired. I like the idea that the flowers criss cross each other
rather than facing in the same direction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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trays with stones, glass or moss and place the structure in it. The water bottle shown is an easy way
to fill the tubes, but those spouted condiment bottles work also. Failing that, any water bottle or small
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Waiting to be delivered to
the luncheon…. All of the trays
are copper but some of the wires are copper and some are a wonderful chartreuse
green.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sweet William, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dianthus c,</i> is one of the few flowers
that are only available seasonally (May & early June), and so worth the waiting. They show off beautifully in the
structure. The connecting green is
midollino sticks, a fine, very flexible cane (many colors, </span><a href="http://www.save-on-crafts.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">www.save-on-crafts.com</span></span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial;"><u>)</u> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">which has enormous potential for all sorts of arrangements. Have fun with this, combine colors and
shapes, put it on a mirror instead of a pebbled tray!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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