Flower Club October meeting report.

Flower Club October meeting report.

A very different demonstrator visited this month. She is a florist who specialises in wedding work and is the only person in Cheshire to be part of the Sustainability Wedding Alliance.

You say Paper I say Papyrus was the title of Jacqueline Owen's demonstration. Every design contained paper in some form and her flowers were all sourced in Britain, mainly from Lincolnshire, Her use of floral foam was minimal and that she did use was the bio-degradable variety.

Design 1 was a tied bunch but instead of having to have large hands for holding it she had made a holder using rolls of anaglypta wallpaper. The colour effect was attractive is shades of peach, pink and purple For the 2nd design the paper came in the form of a papiere mache container and an old toilet roll cardboard used with chicken wire. Red Gladioli with dark purple foliage were used to good effect.

The paper in her next design used white anaglypta again but formed into a lantern effect rather like a chef's hat. Beautiful rosehips gave a surround to Bronze crysanthemums and pink hydrangea.

In design 4 the paper took the form of pleated shapes as part of the actual design with sunflowers, purple iris, sea holly and asparagus fern. This fern was her only non-british plant used.

The work that Jacquie had put into her container for design 5 was incredible.

She had folded many old books origami style and mounted then onto a metal frame. The print plus the slightly browned paper gave a lovely colour effect

She filled this with eucalyptus and floaty grass as well as mainly bronze crysanthemums

A wedding design was the finale. The copper mesh form covered in paper-covered wire was attached to a bottle. This contained large leaves with trimmed edges, ferns, lots of grasses and white flowers of iris and alstromeria and some blue sea holly.

The evening ended with homemade goodies with our drink

For what should be an excellent evening mark November 8th in your diary. We will be serving Buck's Fizz to start, Sionedd Hughes (one of the most amusing demonstrators ever) to follow and festive refreshments later. There will be Christmas Stalls and of course a raffle. Visitors can join us for the low cost of £10. Doors at the Community Centre will open at 6-45pm for a 7-30pm start.

We will be using the main hall so plenty of room for all. Do try and join us.

Ed: Apologies for the late publication of this article.