contents |November 2005

ALDEN BIESEN, BELGIUM

Daniel Ost and other top florists of Belgium come together for the annual 'Flower Happening” in the Alden Biesen castle.

PARIS, FRANCE.

Moniek vanden Berghe holds a workshop in Paris with Art and Nature International.

AUSTRALIAN INTERFLORA FINALS

Bart Hassam has won the Australian Cup! A designer who has often featured on our pages, his 'table for two' design was brilliant with very interesting plant material.

Enjoy the designs of Matthew Landers, representing Western Australia in the under 25 section of the Australian Finals.

floral projects

Ting Chen from Studio Flora in Melbourne, shows you how to use a stem as a flower tube.

Dutch florists, Cissie Ruizendaal and Jeroen Janssen show you how to create a sphere of leaves, the European way.

Colleen Fernie, from New Zealand, uses the sphere idea above and adds some Lotus leaves for a whole new project to try.

Try out the colours! Chrissie Harten, of the UK, plays with coloured floral foam cubes in her new series.

Let's Start at the Very Beginning! A formal coffee table design with Gail Anderson, Sydney School of Floristry.

Floral Impressions from Tauranga, New Zealand, go for pastel colours and Astelia in the complete wedding package to inspire you.

the world as one

The Hamilton Cake Decorating Club prefer edible flowers.

Maureen Myrvang loves using bark as a container.

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PALMERSTON NORTH FLORAL ART CLUB

The title was 'Layered Textures' and the styles were wonderfully eclectic.

'Captured' gave the arrangers a lot of scope in the large foyer design section.

'Elegant Duo' provided beautifully stylish designing.

Introducing the work of Jennie Monro, long time floral designer and educator based in the area,

And we met a local Freesia grower.

ikebana

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Lily Karmatz from Brisbane, Australia shows you how to use vines the Ikebana way.

Lily also had time to photograph the Brisbane Ikebana International exhibition and gather insights from the participants.

Featured florists from this edition

Subscriptions and backcopies.

Clinton Bowyer has the cover story.

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