The Orchid Asia Africa Expo (part 1)

A few weeks ago we visited the Orchid Asia Africa Expo which held on 9 - 13 May 20 2012. The location was at Bank Indonesia parking lot, Jl. Braga, Bandung - West Java.  Though we arrived quite early, there were already some visitors inside. The orchid expo was followed by dozens of participants with various types of booths just like the ones below.

Here you, the orchid lovers, will find various kinds of orchids in many colors and species.  From the very beginning seed (still tiny plants in the bottle)  up to the growing and blooming ones. From the ordinary one such as the  Phalaenopsis amabilis or in Indonesia called as 'Anggrek bulan', up to the rare species from Sumatra andKalimantan that are almost extinct. 

And these are some of the species that uncommonly seen. Beautiful, colorful, rare, and almost extinct. Very attractive aren't they?

Introducing: World of Birds

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Flower Today: Mini Carnation Flowers

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Mini Carnation Flower is another variation of carnation but smaller in size. It's also called spray carnation. Each stem contains several blooms which has lots of ruffled. It's perfect to any wedding bouquet or table centerpiece.

When hasn't bloomed yet, it looks like baby tulip with ruffles on its edge? Very adorable.

Simple Recycle Idea

To make a flower arrangements for home décor, most people will think of expensive vase, a beautiful complicated arrangements and so on. Well, there’s price, there’s quality. A unique, and artful vase is surely expensive, but yes, they will give an elegant touch to your home. Nevertheless, it doesn’t mean that a more affordable vase will surely look bad and cheapy as a décor. This arrangement is one proof of it. Made by using used sauce bottles, the flower arrangement will make your house look more lovely and also help save the earth by reducing waste! What a good idea!!!

To make this arrangement, you will need yellow fiji, another varian of chrysanthemum, ivy leaves, floral green plastic tubes and some wire. First, fill in the floral tube with water then put its cap tightly. Put the stem of ivy into the tube through the cap then make circles of ivy. Do this until the desired thickness and size then secure with wire. Then put three green bottles (you can use beer bottles, sauce bottles etc, but best in same size and colors and labels removed). Put the ivy circle on them, secure the bottles and ivy circle together with wire (must be strong enough so not to fall off). Last, put one fiji or chrysanthemum flower in each bottle…done!!

Here’s the close up look of the flower arrangements.

And here is another idea of arranging the chrysanthemums : first get a small plastic used-bottle (you can use plastic bottles for yoghurt or other kinds of drink), wrap it with colored tisue paper, and put some furry wire around it, secure the wire to a long branch. Do the same with the other bottles and branches.Then just put the chrysanthemums into it!! So, now you have a pots-tree-like with chrysanthemum flower in it.

Okay, stay tune for our next post!!

Pictures taken from Flower Arranging Demo at Hero Supermarket

Floral Designers: Mrs. Angelina, Mrs. Winny, and Mr. Okky

Flower Arranging Demo at Hero Supermarket

There’s a basket… there’re the flowers…. can you guess where we are?

Yeeessss!!!! We’re at a flower arranging demooo!!!! It seemed just yesterday that we posted a lot on IPBI demo regarding 2012-14 wedding bouquet trend, and guess what? This time it’s held at Hero Supermarket, BSM Mall Bandung. And we’re invited to come.

Whooaa, Hero supermarket sure has new concept! It’s more spacious with elegant interior, and not to mention nice lighting too!! No need to photoshop the picture! The flower demo were held near the entrance area. Here we saw the lecturers, Mrs. Angelina, Mrs. Winny and Mr. Okky. They’re divided into two sections, one on the flower pot part and the others were on the hand bouquet and wrapping part.

All the participants were eager to try out the flower pot arrangements, as not everyday you could attend a workshop like this for free.

As usual, we give you all a little teaser for our upcoming flower tutorial post. Please enjoy it while we're preparing the next post!

Wedding Church Décor: White-Green Theme

A pure all white wedding is classic for sure, but sometimes it’s just too common. To make it look different, why don't you try to put a little different colour in it, such as green? This main altar centerpiece for instance, from afar the overall theme is simple elegant white, right?

But when you look at a bit closer, the flower arrangement actually consisted of a number of other color such as light pink, light yellow and quite a lot of green so when the guests saw them, the decor would not be just plain white.

These are some of the flowers that we used on this white-green theme wedding décor, such as snapdragon, lilies, roses, anthurium, shamrock, chrysants, baby's breath and spray carnations while the foliage is phylo sellum, dracaena reflexa and cordyline leaf.

First of all sorry for the blurry picture, but you can still see the white lily as the main focus in this flower arrangements in front of the psalmist. However, a little bit of yellow roses here and there actually won’t destroy the theme.

And last, here’s the close up look of the flower arrangements in front of Jesus and Mary statues. In here, the yellow and green colored flowers were put almost at the bottom, while all upper flowers were white. Nice, wasn't it? So even if you want a white theme wedding décor, don’t limit yourself with just white color. a little combination won’t hurt and it actually will make the décor look more alive.

Thanks for reading and see you in another wedding décor post!!!!

Church Décor by Team Margriet

Our Community Easter Party

Yup, it’s custom flower project time…… It’s been a while since we're making the last custom project, but this time Floplus did it again!!!! It's for our church community Easter party. Well, post Easter actually, we made this flower pot arrangement, inspired by our workshop at Hero supermarket a few days before. In this arrangement we used daisies, roses, caspea, ivy and lily paris leaf. Lovely isn’t it?

Another view of the flower arrangement. For more details and pricing, please visit our webstore at www.floplus.com.

The party itself was held at Mrs. Yoke's house, quite a lot of us came, including the men and children. Since easter is identical with egg, there’s the egg decorating contest, in only 15 minutes… sheesh, so little time!! Since most of us are ladies, it’s not surprising that flowers are quite popular as decorating themes.

And here's all the participants' eggs!!!! They're about 25 decorated eggs on the console table. I chose a lotus flower theme with a bunny inside, while little Flo made the blue chicken. No.., not because she loves chicken, but because she wanted a décor theme that can be done quickly and use as little material as possible (smart girl!). 

The judge was supposed to be Annabelle, the baby girl, here shown she’s studying the row of decorated eggs. However, since she couldn’t decide, the judging job went to Mr. Chris, our choir teacher.

What’s a party without food? And this time it was the all Indonesian food party!!!

Thankful, our eggs went into the best ten and we both won prizes which consisted of snacks, chocolate and a reading glasses!!! And each people who was present seemed having such a fun time that day!!!!

The blue chicken which won prize made by little Flo, cute isn't it?