Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
This is a simple arrangement that can contain just one flower and does not use frogs to hold the flower(s). Nageire slanted style presents a gentle touch and flexibility. It is ideal for beginners. Nageire cascading style arrangements have the main stem hanging lower than the rim of the vase. A flexible material will create beautiful lines ...
Bigleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla): These big "mophead" or "lacecap" types have gorgeous lavish-looking flowers. Peegee hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata): These are the easiest type to grow ...
Moribana uses one or more clusters of arrangements in kenzan, a holder with many sharp points into which flowers are inserted, or shippo that has holes, to replicate how water plants grow and how creatures move around in natural ponds. The main feature of moribana is the broad expanse of natural-looking shapes and a mound of beautiful flowers. [1]
Ikebana (生け花, 活け花, ' arranging flowers ' or ' making flowers alive ') is the Japanese art of flower arrangement. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is also known as kadō ( 華道 , ' way of flowers ' ) . The origin of ikebana can be traced back to the ancient Japanese custom of erecting evergreen trees and decorating them with flowers as yorishiro ...
Seika incorporates many of the structural rules and classical feeling of the ancient rikka of the Ikenobō school. The concept of shusshō (出生 inner beauty) of a plant is key in the arrangement and is expressed as the living forms of plants rooted in the soil and growing upward towards the sun.
Banmi Shōfū-ryū (晩美生風流) is a school of Ikebana, an ancient Japanese art form that involves arranging flowers for spiritual purposes. [1] Ikebana accompanied Buddhism's arrival in Japan in the 6th century and evolved from a Buddhist ritual.
A kenzan (剣山), also called spiky frog, is a specific device used in the Japanese art of flower arrangement ikebana for fixing the flowers in the container. It consists of a heavy lead plate with erected brass needles where the stipes are fixed. The name kenzan (剣山) literally means sword mountain.
Hydrangea arborescens, commonly known as smooth hydrangea or sevenbark, is a species of flowering plant in the family Hydrangeaceae. It is a small- to medium-sized, multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub up to 2 m (7 ft) tall [ 3 ] that is native to the eastern United States.