Lan Su Chinese Garden Installation
Process and Product Materials and structures in process And end result Repurposed as street art
Category Archives: Autumn
52 Vases: Week 8, on the fly
I’ve been too preoccupied with getting my piece ready for the Lan Su Chinese Garden floral display, as a result the arrangement for this week features only a few garden or wild foraged items, the mums are from our local flower market where I purchased my supplies for the big arrangement. Look for a bonus […]
52 Vases: Week 7 – Plain vessels, stunning flowers
Although I’m determined to highlight seasonal flowers and foliage from my personal garden, I was in the Midwest for most of the week and needed to resort to purchased flowers as my mom doesn’t have much of a flower garden. The sunflowers were from a local grocery store and greens picked from my mom’s yard […]
52 Weeks: Week 6 A unique vase
This week features a pottery vase from the Van Briggle company, an American art pottery maker since the late 1890s. Although the company was making pieces into the 21st century, my piece was probably made in the 40s. Any week now our temperatures will be cold enough that the floral material in the garden […]
52 Vases: Week 4 – Roses
The sun is weakening when it is not hidden behind the clouds which form regularly. The temperature is dropping. Rain splatters the plants pushing them into the dirt. I still have plenty to pick in the garden: roses, dahlias, hydrangeas, fushias, a smattering of other things. This week I wanted to highlight an antique glass […]
52 Weeks – A last burst of summer
Using a remaindered vase I echoed the mosaic colors (yellow, pink and a little blue) with late summer flowers from the garden. Flowers include: Dahlias, faded hydrangea heads, Japanese anemones, clematis. Our average first frost doesn’t typically come until November, but October days can be damp, dank and cold, shutting down flower development. So we’ll […]
52 week challenge: Autumn is coming
Working with very autumnal material. V.1. with only Chinese Lanterns V.2. With the addition of some garden dahlias And in position on the mantel
