A Cornucopia of Flowers!This is the stunning design by Enid Sloane you will be able to try. To see other inspirational designs from leading florists world wide subscribe to floral design magazine, your essential monthly fix. Details here. 

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Materials: newspaper, chicken wire, flour and water paste or wallpaper paste. metal stand with small platform on top material, base, copper wire Dried or artificial:pine cones, lichen, palm fibre, artificial flowers and materials. You can select your own flowers, berries and leaves to make this design permanent!  Fresh:anthirriums flowers and leaves, aspidistra, vine, fine fern, Method: Cornucopia This is made by bending and rolling chicken wire or newspaper into the shape you want, and then putting strips of newspaper soaked in paste, all over it as paper mâche. "It's messy" warns Enid, " and you'll end up with a long shape that is hollow inside and very light" Check the size of your cornucopia in proportion to the height of the stand so the open 'mouth' goes over the top of the stand and the 'tail' is onto the base at the bottom. Dry your paper mâche shape thoroughly and then hot glue palm fibre all over it to hide the newspaper.

.  Plant material Choose your plant material to  contrast and complement each other. For the tail, Enid was aware of the title, 'Rich Pickings' and therefore choose a copper theme with greens. Orange lichen, small pine cones sprayed with copper paint, copper wire, and vine with copper tips were all hot glued over the palm fibre. "You can use anything," Enid said," you are looking for texture, so seed heads, any dried materials, leaves, fern. anything can go on"

Assembly Attach the cornucopia to the top of the metal stand, with the cage of wetted oasis also attached there. Make a wreath of vines the same size as the open mouth end and attach this around the rim. Looking into the mouth you should see the cage. The cornucopia's contents. You are now able to use those beautiful fresh anthirriums and other plant material, the stems of which will all be going into the wet oasis. Using the photos as a guide, roll aspidistra leaves, staple to hold the roll in place, and tuck into the mouth. Long fine fern branches drop down and the green anthirriums cascade also downwards, in varying lengths. Add balance to the top with anthirriums leaves emerging like umbrellas over the design.

.	The conclusion Check your design for balance, have you extended the anthirriums and fern down far enough to visually balance with the cornucopia? Is your design able to be viewed equally from all sides as still look good? Have you chosen colours that are followed right through the design, as Enid did. For example the copper  colour of the pine cones, also were in the copper wire she used and the orange lichen.
	.  Enid's last thoughts Enid feels floral art is about being creative, and trying out new ideas. Therefore when you see a  design  use it to create something else. Therefore she would rather you took her ideas and used them to create your own floral sculpture, perhaps in a different shape or colour. Create your base of paper mâche in a spiral, a square, several squares on top of each other twisted on different angles, a triangle, a horn, anything shape that you find that inspires you.ok