February 15, 2014
Journal archive
Tag: flowers
February 13, 2014
Anthurium and Philodendron Selloum
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You Are Invited to Preview My New Book!
My first book featuring photographs from “365 Days of Ikebana”is now available for purchase. If you would like to make a purchase Blurb books is offering a 20% discount on any order placed by December 15, just use code BLURBGIFT-1 at checkout. 365 Days of Ikebana by Keith Stanley
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October 11, 2013
Hanakubari with Anthurium, Willow and Dried Strelitzia Leaf
I love building structures, and this one was quick and easy to make. Hanakubari is the technique of building fixtures with natural materials to support flowers without wire, nails, or screws. But more important is the fact that it is meant to be part of the design, not hidden like a kenzan or kubari fixture […]
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September 11, 2013
Nature Inspired Bouquet
As promised, another bouquet that was nature inspired. Actually the materials are gathered from the woods around my parents home in the mountains in the western part of Virginia. I found so many little mosses and lichens,their growth aided by an usually cool and wet summer, and it was a pure delight. Little pieces of […]
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September 5, 2013
Wedding Bouquet
This is my garden inspired bouquet, using what I could find still in bloom in the late summer heat. I bought the kale leaves and glued them to the underside of the bouquet to start, and glued a leaf to cover the handle. Flowers were collected and cut from the garden and our potted plants […]
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August 21, 2013
Gleaned Summer Flowers
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July 11, 2013
Grown and Gathered Flowers
The best part of summer is the wonderful array of flowers the garden has to offer, and if you look carefully you can find great roadside flowers to add to that bounty. Here is my latest collection of garden and gathered blooms in my $3 compote (yes, that price is correct!). I realize this is […]
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July 4, 2013
Summer Breeze
A hot summer day calls for cool colored summer flowers. Everything was either grown in our garden or collected by me this morning in the neighborhood. My low key version of fireworks.
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May 26, 2013