Calathea and Sassy Pink composition - 2

Arrangement # 90

My fascination with the brown calathea flower spikes and the long pendulous pink bracts of heliconia sassy pink continues. I grab hold of my good old rotten tree trunk, tested and seasoned over time, and plunge the terminal flower spikes into its gasping hole. Had one pendulous stem half circle the upper storey and another at ground zero. Thought that was easy.
With a bit of light effects and alakazam...a composition is born. Upon reflection, I call this composition simply.....Return to My Roots.

Vibrant Colours of Heliconia Bracts

Arrangement # 76

When I arrived Bintulu yesterday  ( 27/8) it was dark and rainy. Couldn't see much and there wasn't time to make my daily cut.  I thought sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. The very fact that I arrived Bintulu safely after a ten hours land journey was something I should be thankful for. Therefore I slept last night tired and grateful.
Today's composition was done late in the afternoon after about a half day's shopping,meeting friends,checking my postal office box, banking matters and most of all to repair my computer and handset modem that had went a bit haywire. With every thing in place, I set about to have my pick for the day.  By one turn of my shoulder, I saw heliconias in various colours stealing my attention.
Without further ado,  two varieties were chosen. Then I made a cutting of a mild pink canna.So the three goes into a rotten tree trunk, which became my favourite tall container for quite a while now. The above picture captures stage one.
Stage Two:

The heliconia 'sassy pink' with its long stalk and some of its pink bracts removed was made to circle around the rotten trunk suggesting an entangled affair. The top section of the display's space was occupied by the bright orange heliconia latispatha. Such strong showing of colours I thought need to be smoothen and given interest. Therefore I added a few blooms of the jasmine ( jasmine multiflorum)
Stage Three:

Finally to conclude I added scent to the composition by throwing fresh white and fragrant blooms of the plumeria ( plumeria obtusa).

Feeling happy and much pleased, I call this composition .....Red Twine in the Sunset.

Pink Sprouts

There is so much that one can do and discover in the jungle. Like the other day, while I was developing the 'sassy pink' footpath I came across a few rotten pieces of wood that have decorative as well as utilitarian potential. If there were swept on the beach they could very well be called driftwood. They look seasoned and resembled attractive art pieces by nature's handiwork. With its core rotten and hollow, I decided to make it as a plant container.

A view of the display to indicate the placement of the heliconia flowers inside the core of the rotten piece of wood .

The meter long wood with a string of the heliconia 'sassy pink' bracts placed inside its hollow core. Shall we call this display....Pink sprouts?

The Ancient Image Found New in Time

My fascination with this rotten tree trunk took an interesting turn, the other day. There is a basic quality about the trunk which I felt need to expressed. It has been there over many years, ('reels of time' ) waiting to be discovered. When I found it, I felt its sculptured look has been the work of time . Again the idea is time immemorial,kept hidden in the forest floor , waiting to be discovered , in due time. By the time I picked it , I found a time capsule, telling my mind...discover me, the ancient yet new.

Therefore I name the above composition..Windmills of Your Mind.