Banana bracts for flower display

Been watching the banana inflorescence recently. After a while once the fruits are relatively bigger, the bracts fall off. They curled up and I thought of its use as 'flower boat'. Below are my attempts.

Arrangement # 106

Here a slightly new bract becomes a set for the cut fowers.

A slightly older bract is placed onto the bigger one and is rolled in to so that a heliconia bract can be inserted into it.

Two rolled in bracts placed inside an open bract.

The title of today's composition....Put on the Banana Bracts

Passionately Wild

Arrangement #32

A miniature fruit of a dwarf wild pineapple species is placed in the center of four white bracts from the core of a banana flower spike. A tiny spray of bleeding hearts flowers is added to invoke passion. Served on an exotic leaf, the tip of a red bract is introduced to accentuate the exquisiteness of the composition. A rare show of passion gone wild...gets me obsessed with naming the composition......Passionately Wild.

Sassy Flower Boat

Arrangement# 29

Still on the minimalist streak. I peeled of the pink bracts of the heliconia 'sassy pink' to expose the young buds. Had two of them placed inside the banana bracts, and then reflected... Oh! want a decisive statement. The title of the composition is naturally.....Sassy Flower Boat.

White Flower Boat

Arrangement # 28

Today, I feel like stripping off all the extravaganzas, preliminaries, excesses and extras. Just remain simple and basic. Something modern people these days call being minimalistic. This
idea zipped through my head this morning while I was pruning some banana leaves . When I approached a banana tree that was fruiting , I saw at the very tip of the bunch of fruits was a beautiful flower spike. I started to peel off the deep purple bracts one by one , it struck me that they can be used as a container, albeit shaped like a tiny boat. On the way back home I passed a clump of gardenias. Looking pure , untarnished , an unspoilt beauty. How would one express it with the help of bananas? So I took the biggest banana leaf to be used as background, placed the gardenias into the two large bracts and thus my composition of the day.....White Flower Boat. ( And makes me go Bananas!!!!)