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

Red Fountains in the Sunset

The various colours that are seen at the front garden is something to be admired. Hues of orange, red, yellow, white, brown and pink are in harmony with one another. Of special interest today is the deep brown colour of the fountain grass ( Pennisetum setaceum ). I've made some cuttings of its inflorescence from the front garden just now, and will marry it to cuttings of the spiral red flag ( Costus woodsonii ) , pink canna hybrid and the red lobster claw ( Heliconia stricta ).
It was just a few months ago that I started to plant the fountain grass in my garden mainly for its colour and of course its magnificent inflorescence's (resembling long fountain sprays) that are produced daily.

Arrangement # 137

The reddish brown colours of the fountain sprays, red lobster claws , scarlet cones of the spiral red flag and the pink canna petals seem to blush in a glowing atmosphere. The colours remind me of an evening sunset and therefore name today's composition ....Red Fountains in the Sunset....( Sounds familiar?)

At the south garden, closer to the fence I have also planted a small cluster of the fountain grass which is barely seen at the middle ground of the picture above.

Canna Stop Loving You

There are three varieties of cannas that I grow in my Kuching garden right now. There are in colours of pink, red and orange. Today I have just made a cutting of the pink canna. With a little bit of help from the two reliable heliconia varieties viz heliconia stricta and latispatha, a simple composition is done.
Would like to name it..... Canna Stop Loving You.

Arrangement # 136