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ROADSIDE IKEBANA: February 2015
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FLOWERS IN THE GARDEN. My ikebana colleague Joan has identified the flowers in the driftwood arrangement in last week's posting as godetia. A native of the coast of the north west of North America. The description of them being azalea-like strikes me as apt. The peak of hot summer days seems to have passed and, after extra watering, the roses in the garden have started their second flowering. In this photo the pale pink is cecile brunner,. I took these next photos yesterday in the. When I went to class t...
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ROADSIDE IKEBANA: WINTER EXHIBITION
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Below is a view of the western end of the beach as I usually see it in my minds eye. However, at this time of year. It can also look like this. I must admit one of the blessings of the environment in which I live is that, in winter it is more common for the sun to shine, even if only for a short time, on most days, than it is to be overcast for days on end. The exhibition is entitled ' Winter in Ikebana. The arrangement is in a Shigaraki. August 9, 2015 at 3:23 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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ROADSIDE IKEBANA: March 2015
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MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FLOWER and GARDEN SHOW. This week the annual Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show is being held in the grand 1880 Royal Exhibition Building. This is a very popular event having a wide variety of floristry-related displays and demonstrations within the building and gardening-related displays. In the extensive parkland. One of the most unusual and eye-catching displays was a memorial of hand-crocheted red poppies commemorating the soldiers who died in WW. Following my visi...
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ROADSIDE IKEBANA: October 2014
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At the beginning of this week, after leaving Maine, we travelled to Pittsburg to see Frank Lloyd Wright's most famous creation: the house called Fallingwater, commissioned by the Kaufman family and built in 1937. It still looks as modern as tomorrow to me. When he was about 26, Wright first saw Japanese architecture at the 'World's Colombian Exposition' in 1893, in the form of a large pavilion. That survived until it was destroyed by arson in 1945. I was initially irritated by the tree in the centre of t...
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ROADSIDE IKEBANA: December 2014
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COLOURFUL BIRDS at CHRISTMAS. Thanks to my friend Shirley, the un-identified pea-shaped flowers in the first arrangement (by Alana) of last week's posting, have been correctly identified as Erythrina crista-galli,. Cock spur-coral-tree); from South America, not Africa as I had said. While following up Shirley's lead, I was interested to discover this plant has been named as a potential weed. In the northern coastal regions of New South Wales and Queensland. In recent days have been. Here are two Galahs.
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ROADSIDE IKEBANA: CHEERFUL WINTER COLOUR
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The temperature gauge was measuring 8 degrees Celsius today, a rather cool day in this part of the world. So I was surprised when I went for a walk along the clifftops to see a small group of enthusiastic surfers out from the beach waiting for a good wave to catch. There was little wind and an occasional set of good waves did appear. In the garden two of my favourite plants have come into bloom. The first is the Cootamundra Wattle Acacia Baileyana. Lick on the blue text for further information. Forgive m...
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ROADSIDE IKEBANA: A SMALL LANDSCAPE ARRANGEMENT
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A SMALL LANDSCAPE ARRANGEMENT. This photo reminds me of the description of hellebores being the 'heroes of the winter garden'. Probably a fair description for short stemmed flowers and they do look fresh and perky. A couple of days later I was delighted to see these little hands pushing through the mulch. I had thought I had lost two of the original four plants, not so. I am hoping this one will be a different colour. Pruning to reveal lines. Emphasis on the trunk. This is how my ikebana looked. I ha...
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ROADSIDE IKEBANA: WINTERY BRANCHES
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The theme at the class I attended this week was 'Winter Branches'. In Melbourne over the last few weeks the exotic,. Deciduous trees have lost their leaves, and the streets and gardens where they are planted have developed a wintery aspect. This is not the case in our garden which is. Predominately planted with native species. However, I had recently pruned the apricot tree which provided me with some suitable branches for the exercise. The narrow shelf at home occupies a corner at the end of a corridor.
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ROADSIDE IKEBANA: TOWARDS VISUAL BALANCE
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A couple of weeks ago I posted a photo of a heron wading in the Creek at Torquay. This one, however, I photographed in the Yarra River in the heart of Melbourne. Black Swans are a more common sight and I was a little surprised to see it there. By chance the photo seemed to capture the gracefulness of the bird's heavy, slow-flapping wings. During the week I went to a class with my teacher Elizabeth. She had set an exercise of ' line,. I wanted to use a shallow, open ceramic. Welcome. My name is Christ...
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ROADSIDE IKEBANA: August 2015
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AN EXERCISE IN TRIMMING. It has been a very busy time in the ikebana world lately. Last weekend we had two days of workshops with Mr Yoshiro Umemura. From Sydney. On the Victorian Sogetsu website you can see photos from the first workshop. Other photos will be posted over the next week or so. On Monday afternoon the Ikebana International Melbourne Chapter 29 annual exhibition, which I am curating, will be opened. It is open for two weeks. If you are in Melbourne do come along. On Sunday 9th August,.
