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Your tutor Ngaire Clarke
Ngaire Clarke worked throughout New Zealand tutoring and
demonstrating for many years, and her work has been
featured in the New Zealand Floral Art Society publications
and floral design magazine. Ngaire adds,"When Gregor
Lersch from Germany demonstrated in Auckland in 1989 I decided
this was the way to work with flowers - free, bold and
beautiful. Thoroughly inspired by the European design styles I
was very fortunate to be able to attend Ecole Francaise de Decoration
Florale, in Paris. These French and European designs
have been the basis of the workshops I have been invited to
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USING ORIENTAL OR ASIATIC LILIES IN A FLOWER ARRANGEMENT
For this design Ngaire used a
floral stand. It has an s-shaped base and into the base the
long rod is fitted.
This base and rod, Ngaire wrapped in flax, striped
down into thin, long strips, while it was still green,
As you can see in the photo on the left, it gives a beautiful
stripped effect and will dry to a series of shades and tones
of light brown. This is a great idea to cover your stand to
make it part of your design. Experiment with flaxes, reeds and
grasses to see what will work, and what looks
effective.
Ngaire also gathered 2 bunches of
reeds from the roadside, some aspidistra leaves, white
lilies, a few gerberas and a small amount of lime
hydrangeas.
The reeds she placed over welding
rod which is quite light and pliable. The reeds were attached
to the rod with copper or gold effect wire wound around
the length evenly. At the bottom of the bunch, she
attached with wire,some sturdy twigs to use as pins to push
the reed bunches into the floral
foam.
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 At the top of the stand, Ngaire
attached a platform which was designed to fit on top of the
rod and then the floral foam in a cage was attached to that,
at an angle. The angle will make your design more interesting
and not so 'square on'. Ngaire's platform has holes in it, to
make it easy to attach the cage filled with floral foam,
using florist's wire.
The first bunch of reeds, was then pinned across the
floral foam, and draped down and around the stand
to end near the bottom. The bottom of the reeds was at
the bottom of the stand in a tight bunch, opening out as
it went upwards to the cage, and across
it.
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Warm the leaves by stroking them in your
palm. "It's nice to get friendly with your plant
materials"' says Ngaire. Pin the first leaf into the
floral foam with florist pins, then bend it over
and anchor again as you curve it around the
cage. "Pin across the vein of the leaf," says Ngaire,"as
it helps to anchor it, and hold each leaf to see
where it should go."
"If you really like something do it
again. Repetition builds RHYTHM
just as the S shape of the stand base is repeated in
the swirl on top, and the reeds are repeated through the
design.". | | 
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Aspidistra
leaves are great to use and dry beautfully , holding
their shape as they dry. Cordyline is also another leaf Ngaire
likes to use and canna leaves can also work.Once again, keep
your eyes open for what will work in your
area.
Once
you have covered the floral foam with the rolled leaves, place
two down, following the line of the reeds.Add the lemon lilies,
with stems cut short, into the gaps between the
leaves.
Watch
out for the stamens, as they will stain if they get on your
clothes. Ngaire says,"A handy hint for stains from lily stamen
: Try this : Lily stamen stains can often be faded out by
placing garment in the sunshine for a day or
two." |
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Add the orange gerberas, making
sure you have more lilies than gerberas, and more flowers on
one side than the other to give an asymetrical
design.
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Place the flowers to hide any pins showing from
pinning the leaves, and tuck tiny bits of hydrangea in
to cover any bits of floral foam that are
showing.
 Now add the other bundle of reeds
to the top, as a twirl above the design, to give space and
height.
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