Ashton Hayes and Tarvin Flower Club October Meeting

Ashton Hayes and Tarvin Flower ClubWednesday 8th October

We had a very entertaining evening with Kate Russell demonstrating A Touch of the Exquisite , sprinkled with very entertaining stories.

Her first arrangement had a cottage garden theme with a wooden structure having two stylized huts at the top which housed miniature posies. Kate explained that the use of blue oxypetalum flowers enhances the other flower colours, (blues tend to recede). Her Exquisite moment was after the visitors had gone you could shut the door and breathe!

An Exquisite blend of autumn colours used a pumpkin as a vase and added orange dahlias and Japanese spider chrysanthemums with red and orange roses and autumn foliage; stunning.

The third arrangement was in a large basket filled with exquisite yellow roses and gerbera, bursting with cheerfulness.

A special occasion needs a special hat and Kate did an exquisite arrangement in pink roses, carnations, lisianthus, nerines and clematis curling rounds the hat on top of a head . Kate said that shipments of lisianthus from Columbia were having to be searched because of opium and cannabis being hidden in them!

The final arrangement had an exquisite kneeling bronze girl at its centre surrounded by peach and white roses, white agapanthus and red roses. A modesty arrangement was placed at the front, complementing the flowers behind it.

Kate s stories were hilarious so I must repeat one of them. Going home from a demonstration traffic was diverted off the motorway, before satnav and no map in the car. She decided to follow the van in front expecting to go back on the motorway. The van eventually turned into the Weetabix factory and then she saw the Weetabix logo on the van. She didn't tell us how she got home!