Valentine's Day Arrangement workshop lead by Helen Wareham

Our first workshop for 2023 was held in our usual meeting place, the Khandallah Town Hall from 2pm - 4pm. Helen lead us using ideas from Book 4, lesson 19, Specific Scenes, Occasions or Spaces and from Book 3, lesson 4, two or more containers.

Valentine's Day is a celebration of romance. Helen suggested we use our imagination depending our available materials. Some of the most popular flowers for Valentine's Day are roses, lilies, orchids and sunflowers. The textbook suggests white flowers for purity and red for love.

Helen demonstrating using dried and fresh material in champange box with a vase inside

A double shin of dried and fresh flax and pohutukawa branch

Helen used two containers with gerberas and palm leaves

Kate and Sandi showing two new ikebana books for our library

Yoko and Penny admiring Yoko's Valentine's Day arrangement

Yoko used roses and corokia branches in a double container for romance

Masako used sunflowers and parsley and a horizontal branch of pyracantha

Julie and Leonie enjoying their arranging

Julie tied a red and white obi round a white vase and in it arranged agapanthus and asparagus fern

Kate used a Valentine's Day coffee bag to arrange roses and Japanese hydrangea in

Sandi arranged white and apricot roses with lacebark flowers and foliage in two containers

Elizabeth chose two geometric shaped, ceramic vases to arrange dahlias, nandina and a horizontal dried vine

Elizabeth's arrangement without the nandina

Leonie arranged alstromeria, roses and sage flowers in an interesting white container

Amanda arranged aeonium succulent, greenery with a delicate red flower, daisies and hibiscus in two containers

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