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Carla
wanted to represent New Zealand as the land of the first light, and started
with a circle of black, mounted on driftwood. A block of floral foam was
set in the middle of the circle. She wanted to show the sun on one side
and the moon on the other.
The sun side was a sea of strelitzia flowers all radiating for the centre. with three astelia leaves radiating out more from the top. The moon side, with it's moonlight was a horizontal positioning of white iris, stock, silver astelia and white anthirriums. She said, " We don't have silver astelia in Italy, If we did I would use it like parsley!" |
Right ~ Close up of the sunnyside. |
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Carla,
in this design, wanted to provide a feeling for winter, an icy lake, tall
trees covered in snow and their reflections.
The design was set on top of a glass container with two clear circles, frosted at the edges, set to one side above this container to represent the lake. Long, loosely wrapped stems of gypsophyla above and below the lake, became the snow covered trees and their reflections." In Italy we don't have many leaves on our trees in winter, but you do in New Zealand,"she said, and she added a twisted and variegated aspidistra leave among the gypsophyla. |
White anthirriums and white skeletonised leaves added to the winter theme, and a few green anthirriums provided contrast.  |
Carla then twirled a bundle of long wire strands around the design and it was finished! Left ~ A close up of the lake circles Above ~ Gypsophyla and aspidistra trees, and bundles wire. |
Glossy Liguaria leaves joined together to give a contrast of light and dark, shiny and glossy and cut palms provided drama in this design. |
The
palms grow wild in the National Parks South of Rome and Carla loves using
them. She then added rolled flax leaves (above) and Heliconia ,"Because
I know the grower," she said with a smile
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This design featured loops of silver astelia, and spathes, complemented by proteas. Carla said,"this is a really ugly container so my job is to hide it as much as possible". It was a perfect colour match to the spathes, and she draped cycad like fronds around it .Kaleanchoe leaves, amongst the proteas and Heliconia completed the design. |
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