August 20th General Meeting
Japanese Flower arrangement demonstration by Beth Mc Laren
Nagire means ‘from the heart’.
She showed several styles that all followed basic rules of 3 or creating triangles. The 3 branches were the Sun line that was the longest branch that sets the tone of the whole arrangement. Moon line 2/3 length of sun line, earth line half of sun line and is the shortest but strongest. Sun represented fire, Moon represents water and Earth is earth.
She used many different types of branches, leaves, berries and flowers that were available in her garden. All can be 1.5 or 2 times the width of the vase.
Flowers should face forward or up but never down.
Echinacea, coreopsis, magnolia leaves, nigella seed pods, dahlias, and hosta leaves.
Moribani upright in a long white dish was given away to Diane in the draw.
Other styles were nagire tall vase, korinka small black square container, moribana with long black dish ‘plane and moss with a clump of hosta leaves as the feature.
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