#1: Tranquil Forest Garden

My very first arrangement. I wasn’t that

familiar with arrangement and kokoro, so

I went with a landscape style composition.

It is meant to portray a peaceful garden

with the tall greenery as dominant and

flowers low to the flower as less

important aspects.




Plants: Leather fern, myrtle 

Flowers: Carnation, statices 

Difficulty: 1/5

#2: Three Meadows and the Endless Skies Above

One Aspidistra

For this horizontal line arrangement, I utilized ma to create space above in which one can interpret it as the sky.

One Baby's Breath

The three aspidistras and mums are placed in three groups and have space in between them to create the visual of three different meadows.  



One Mum

Plants: Aspidistra

Flowers: Baby's breath, mums

Difficulty: 2/5

#3: Happy Home

This arrangement is compact utilizing open space above and the sides of the composition. All the flowers and plants are kept low except for the hypericums, which represent happy thought bubbles of the gerbera daisies under the roof of the house. 



Plants: Virginia Pepperweed

Flowers: Gerbera daisies, baby's breath 

Difficulty: 1/5

#4 & Midterm: Electric Bliss

Before

This wild arrangement utilizes a bright yellow container as well as zigzag patterned horsetails and yellow billy balls to give off that electric, exciting feeling. However, the boldness is balanced out by the beauty and delicateness of the flowers below. 

 

Plants: Horsetail, crotons, billy balls, palm leaf

Flowers: Carnation, statice

Difficulty: 3/5



After

Similar to my electric beauty arrangement except with a more fitting title of kokoro as well as utilizing more bold and bigger flowers to complement the arrangement better as well as utilizing more space between the horsetails to make it cleaner and more visually appealing. 

 

Plants: Same as #4

Flowers: Replaced carnation and statice with alstroemeria and bruennas



#5: Tranquil Fountain

This miniature arrangement is designed to represent a fountain with its pottery patterned vessel with a small opening as well as the flowing lines of the bear grass to represent the flowing water. 



Plants: Bear grass

Flowers: Delphinium, limonium

Difficulty: 4/5

#6: Linked to the Sky

The hardest to make in terms of technical skill, this hanging arrangement represents a link of plants between two vials. A thin wooden plank serves as a guideline to give the arrangement a more 3D aspect as well as give them graceful, flowing lines. 



Plants: Solomon's Seal, Boston fern, Japanese euonymus 

Flowers: Gerbera daisies

Difficulty: 5/5