Surprise!!! Vegetable as Ornament for Easter Flower Arrangement

This time the demonstration was performed by Mrs. Natalia. We are used to calling her ‘Lia’ and so are the other members of 'Margriet' . Lia is an energetic young woman with many talents and very creative. As now, beyond expectations she used vegetables such as white and purple cabbage as ornaments on her flower arrangement. Surprising, ya?

At first, she had to make the box. It made of wood. You can used cheap wood such as 'albasiah' or salvage container wood. Fill the box with foam or oasis, then cover it with reptile split phylodendron. Now, ready to make the flower arrangement.

-        Split the white cabbage into 2 parts, then put each part on the box by using chopsticks. Don’t forget to give extra space between them. Do the same with the purple cabbage but this time don’t split and put it as whole cabbage. (image 1)

-       Then successively put roses of 'Amandini', 'Aleandra', and 'Avalanche' on the space between the white cabbage by using basing technique. (image 2)

-          After that place statice, hydrangea, baby roses and a strand of succulent (image 3)

-       Place the cymbidium orchids on the purple cabbage. Lia said that she had separated the cymbidium orchid to get the impression of more classy than the other flowers because besides this kind of orchid is not only beautiful but also expensive and moreover should be imported too. (image 4)

-        Then scatter seeds of mahogany fruit in front of the purple cabbage, place a big egg made of skin quail egg on it. And finally a thorn crown made of young twigs, dried and painted in silver, was placed above the flowers as a focus. (image 5 & 6)

The flower arrangement seen from above. Look at the strand of succulent, very similar to the Rosary, right?

Close-up of the flower arrangement. 

Note: The pictures taken at monthly gathering of IPBI DPC Bandung – March 22^nd, 2012