Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Fire my soul

Arrangement #153 - "Fire my soul"


Stay @ Home composition.

Truly this lockdown is becoming more challenging to our soul. So I decided today to do a little gardening to keep my time occupied and my mind working. I cleared some unwanted bushes around the heliconia plants and collected some large fern leaves, green as well as dried ones from the garden . I feel its time for me to get back to daily cut flowers arrangements like what I used to do before since there is plenty of time at hand these days.

For today's composition I used two varieties of heliconia plants, the Red Lobster's Claw and the Heliconia latispatha variety. I name the arrangement " Fire my soul".
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Heliconia latispatha

Trigger Me

Arrangement #149 ~ Trigger Me 
To trigger it I picked up a few sample of colourful foliage and cut two stalks of the Heliconia 'red lobster's claw'. That's the beauty of the Kambatik garden. Among other things it is a ready source of daily cut flowers just a step out of your door. Two varieties of coleus, a young leaf of the 'Blood Banana' and a trimmed version of the yellow palm frond makes the show. No sweat. It's just a 15 minutes effort including photography. Call it... Trigger Me!

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Tropical colours

Arrangement #150 ~ Tropical colour

Today's colours are warm, hot and tropical. From the garden I have collected the light brown bracts of the Calathea lutea. The yellow and deep orange colours of the parrot flower or Heliconia psittacorum matched well with the crimson colours of the Costus woodsonii. The golden colours of the yellow hibiscus add a heartening glow to the whole composition. Such warmth and vibrant colours are typical of tropical flowers. For that I call this composition...Tropical Colours.




Another view of the composition taken inside the house.