Rekha Naidoo was the demonstrator at the April meeting. The title of her demonstration was “Festivals of India”. Her arrangements celebrated Indian festivals. The first was Rakhi to celebrate the union of brother and sister. A large basket decorated with rings attached to it with red and yellow carnations on top of the basket. Another was a celebration of Sikhism, Versaki. This was arranged in a large pot decorated with red, yellow, green and orange fabric arranged to represent a turban. The flowers were protea and leucodendron with fatsia leaves, plaited palm leaves and 5 brown rings on sticks to represent the five beloved. There was a silver container anthuriums, protea and balls of pink sisal on sticks with another matching one. This was used in Gujarati celebration of Norvaki. Other designs celebrated Diwali and Holi. All Rekha’s designs were very colourful and we learned a lot about Indian festivals. I have shown her arrangement for Rakki below.

The members competition was entitled Holi splashes of colour. I have shown some of the entries below.

The next meeting will be at 1.45pm on Wednesday 13th May when Coral Gardiner a National demonstrator will be arranging flowers entitled “Spring into Summer”.