Our house backs on to an intermittent creek, pictured below, that at the moment is just a series of small pools and muddy bogs.
This week has continued to be sunny, hot and dry. Because of the weather I decided to set my students the exercise of 'an arrangement of summer grasses in a basket'. I collected seven different grasses from the creek. Below is a native grass with a tight seed head and behind it fennel that has escaped from a nearby garden.
Here is some dock growing among bullrushes (called cattail in some countries), which are shown in the following photo.
This photo shows sedge and in the lower part of the photo the green seed head of Down's nut grass.
Lastly the wiry bracken fern.
I have arranged the above photos in the sequence of their use from top to bottom in the naturalistic basket arrangement below.
Greetings from Christopher
8th February 2014
I am a newer member to your blog and am thoroughly enjoying seeing your wonderful pictures of arrangements made with the materials of Australia. While I am dealing with one snow storm after another here in New York State it is a real pleasure to see the sunny pictures of all the different field grasses and the beautiful arrangement you made with them. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteDear Gail,
DeleteI am pleased you are enjoying the blog. There have been reports on our TV's of the wintery conditions in your part of the world. Especially when the polar vortex was hitting the mid-west. Keep warm and safe. Today there are bush fires in our state (!).
Regards,
Christopher
I so agree with with Gail. A beautiful arrangement. Thanks for sharing with us, Christopher.
ReplyDeleteThank you Michael. Hope this find you well. Regards,
DeleteChristopher