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Vanita Patel Vanita Patel is a sunny, gracious Floral Artist and Florist, living in Auckland New Zealand, where she owns and operates the florist shop, 'Fussy Flowers'.

We caught up with Vanita as she was demonstrating to the Warkworth Floral Art Club in Northland, with the theme, 'Bright and Beautiful'.

This demonstration is covered in full in the March 03 issue of the floral design magazine available here

 
 
 

 

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Your  free lesson featured  below is a modern reed wall design with lilies and freesias inserted for effect. Try it yourself using the instructions  from a demonstration by Vanita Patel.

Vanita built a wall of steel grass as the  foundation of this design below.

She bunched three pieces of steel grass together, and used decorative  wire to twist around the bundle before adding the next bundle, creating a long curtain. She left enough gaps to push plant stems through, by twisting the wire a few more times  to create a bigger gap before adding the next  bundle.

Vanita then  rolled the 'curtain' around a long block of soaked floral foam and moss and secured it with florists wire. This was then placed on the black slab container and physically balanced.

Finally she added the flowers, using yellow asiatic lilies, purple stocks and fern. They were pushed through the steel grass, into  the floral foam. 
Vanita then added freesias, by pushing them into the foam and then wiring them close to the steel grass so they seemed to grow up the structure.

Maiden hair fern  was draped from the top to the bottom and the design was completed.

A small amount of water was added to the  black slab container to keep the steel grass turgid. and the design was then ready for a prominent position in a home or office.

To see more of Vanita's designs from this demonstration,   buy the March 03 issue of the online magazine here
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