The demonstrator at the July meeting was Renate Petrauskiene. The title of her demonstration was “Flower Mission”. Renate’s arrangements were focussed on garden flowers and flowers from garden centres. The arrangements were very naturalistic, including a hand tied arrangement with frame made from paper and florist wire filled with field flowers. Renate is from Lithuania and one arrangement reminded of her of her parents garden overlooking a lake in Lithuania. It was in a low silver bowl with hazel twigs to anchor the design and lined with chicken wire and moss. She talked about cranes on the lake and used leaves to represent them with pampas grass and red and orange flowers including crocosmia , antirrhinums and gladioli with rosemary leaves. another design was 2 letter boxes tied together for an angled parallel design. This contained pennisetum, poppy seed heads with white veronica and freesia. I have shown this design below with another one with a pot containing a branch with hydrangea heads, gerbera and poppy seed heads.

The members competition was Garden Party with several entries some of which are shown here.

There was no meeting in August. The next meeting will be on Wednesday16th September at 1.45pm when Linda Seabrook will be demonstrating flowers entitled “Autumn’s Season’s Greetings”. Visitors are welcome to attend for a fee of £8.

2 of Renate’s Designs below.

3 of the member’s garden party arrangements below.