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01/17/2025

Learning to make a haku kupe’e lei (braided wrist lei) with local plant materials!

01/06/2025

01/02/2025

Inspiration comes in many forms, today it was a pine branch with lichen found in the garden that had fallen off during the rain storms a few days early

12/30/2024

Festive winter rikka with nandina and pillow willow

#池坊 #立花

12/24/2024

Always in awe of nature’s designs

11/29/2024

Not sure whether to be thankful or concerns that all these flowers are still blooming in my garden, including roses!

09/29/2024

There’s something memorizing about these 🍃 …let the nightmares commence!

09/26/2024

Super cool plants!

09/15/2024

The falling temperatures outside, the start of apple picking season, it can only mean one thing, autumn is here.

09/11/2024

Catching up on photos…out picking flowers in the foothills of the Appalachians to use in arrangements. Thanks for a wonderful flower weekend!

08/24/2024

Playing with

08/04/2024

The Ghibli Amusement Park is a great place to view plant materials growing naturally (and of course catch a peek of Totoro!). It’s a great way to unwind after a week of ikebana classes!

08/04/2024

- emphasizing mikoshi, abbreviating soe to create balance.

#池坊

08/02/2024

Experimenting with lotus in - Ikenobo World Seminar day 2

07/30/2024

Ikenobo World Seminar day 1 - two arrangements in one day is really tiring especially with plant material that’s not commonly found nor used outside Japan. We ended more than an hour late.

#池坊 #生花

07/21/2024

It’s the final class of the five week freestyle series - bringing it all together! Lines, surface, mass, points

I love the summertime when I can supplement store bought flowers with fresh materials cut from the garden!

#池坊 #自由化

07/15/2024

Sometimes a subtle turn of a leaf makes all the difference in an arrangement. Sharing floral pieces from the workshop this weekend focusing on use of ‘point’ material.

There’s one more workshop session left for this summer - Sun July 21!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/freestyle-ikenobo-ikebana-tickets-912052733277?aff=oddtdtcreator

07/11/2024

Summer is in full swing with sunflowers! Tall vs short.