A workshop with Sandi on Freestyle arranging with Roses

November 14, 2021 Ikebana Wellington

Sandi arranged a variety of homegrown roses with vine in a ceramic vase

Sandi Hurnard led our November workshop at the Khandallah Town Hall. Sandi provided the following notes for our members:

“We will start the session with a 'Bring and Buy Sale of containers'. The tradition is that about 20% of the value of the sale is donated to STA. Do start looking at your container collection for anything you might like to part with.

The second part of the meeting will be on the theme ' Freestyle Arranging with Roses'. For those of you who have access to roses in the garden please use these. You may like to try out a vase for sale. Because of the time pressure, Sandi will demonstrate a few quick arrangements using garden grown roses.”

Sandi used a garden rose with muehlenbeckia in a tall vase

Sandi used wisteria vine nd florist roses in a double container

Sandi used vine and 3 varieties of garden roses

Nicole received her certificate from Sandi

Alyson receives her certificate from Sandi

Many and varied vases for sale

Nicole used Fourth of July garden rose and unidentified native

Elizabeth used larkspurs, sweetpeas, blue campanella with several homegrown rose varieties and cherry tree stems

Helen used florist roses, alstromeria and hosta leaves

Setsuko used 2 rosevarieties with hydrangea

Sarah used roses, hydrangea and camellia leaves

Satomi used grapevine, wild sweetpea and cream and purple roses

Misako used florist roses, leaves and willowstorks

Masako used homegrown Dublin Bay roses, white buds of pohutukawa and yew branches

Maria used purchased roses, magnolia and cordyline leaves

Maria used one garden rose in a glass container

Kathy used garden roses with flax leaves

Kathy used Compassion roses in a raised container

Kathy used Compassion roses in a tall container

Kate used florist roses and greenery in a white rectangular container

Helen used 2 florist roses and asparagus fern in a glass container

Julie used pohutukawa branches, asparagus fern and garden roses

Alyson used garden roses in a pair of ceramic vases

Together Setsuko Kennedy and Masako Crawford gave a workshop using only one kind of material

October 10, 2021 Ikebana Wellington

Masako arranged pine in a tall shell-case container

Due to the latest Covid lockdown, our Ikebana Exhibition as part of the Spring Festival at the Botanic Gardens was cancelled but we were lucky to have two teachers team leading our October workshop.

Setsuko Kennedy who has been a teacher for some years, but hadn’t led a workshop for our group and Masako Crawford who gained her teaching certificate earlier this year demonstrated using ‘Only One Kind of Material’ from Sogetsu Book 4, pages 68-69.

Setsuko and Masako gave us this guidance beforehand:

“In this lesson, we can use the keen observation of the materials we have learned by picking up the unique feature of the material. We refer to Mr Sofu Teshigahara’s Principle 33, “Select a container that accentuates the beauty of the ikebana arrangement”. Unusual vases or addition of stones or driftwood could enhance the arrangement.”

It was a great to get together in a safe spacious venue and everyone enjoyed doing ikebana together.

Helen accepting her Teacher's Certificate from Elizabeth

Satomi with her Teacher's certificate

Setsuko showing her arrangements using Chatham Island forget-me-nots and camellia

Masako showing her arrangement using pine

Masako with hers and Sesuko's arrangements

Setsuko arranged Chatham Island forget-me-nots in an interesting vase

Setsuko used camellias in a triangular container

Masako arranged taupata around a large stone

Kate arranged grass in a round container

Kate arranged dark magnolia material in a tall container

Yoko arranged arum lilies in a shallow container

Satomi arranged arum lilies in an interesting container

Satomi used agapanthus material in a beautiful vase

Nicole arranged kawakawa with stones in a low container

Lyn used two containers and arranged weeping blossom and ameria (little pink pompoms) material

Adriana used varigated lily leaves in an interesting container

Julie arranged clivias in a pair of glass containers

Helen used bird of paradise material in a tall container

Elizabeth arranged cherry blossom material in an interesting container

Sandi arranged azalea in a blue vase

Kathy arranged clivias in a pair of black containers

A Workshop from Helen on using Seasonal Materials for Spring

September 26, 2021 Ikebana Wellington

Helen arranged spring flowers and branches in a tall, blue container

Helen led our September workshop on the theme “Seasonal arrangements for Spring”. We used anything that was flowering at present including some new leaves showing on bare branches. We could choose of moribana or nageire, freestyle or following a lesson. It was a lovely opportunity to celebrate getting back together after 3 weeks in lockdown.