Nailsworth & District Flower Arrangement Society

AT OUR May Meeting we were pleased that Chair Linda Foreman was able to present a cheque for £1,000 on behalf of members to Catherine North from Macmillan Cancer Support, being a donation of money raised at our recent Open Day at Wycliffe College.

Our Demonstrator for the evening was Sharon Dower an Area Demonstrator from Swansea.

Sharon’s theme for the evening was “Natures Cast Offs”.

She used some skilfully crafted home-made containers from driftwood collected from beaches around her home to create arrangements influenced by her visit to Barbados with WAFA last year.

An arrangement of pittosporum, begonia leaves, with asters, pink carnations, lizianthus, blue bells, and pink heather in a trough covered with dried banana leaves complimented with two engineered drainpipes formed into pink Flamingos made a stunning first design.

Sharon used a container made from pieces of driftwood to make a contemporary tropical arrangement of white orchids and red antirrhinum.

Her third design of peach coloured gerberas, avalanche roses and proteas complimented with a burgundy orchid tucked skilfully into a large piece of ivy root made an attractive display.

A fourth arrangement using lime green foliage red astilbe, pink statice, pink chrysanthemums and pink lizianthus created a feeling of being in the wilderness.

For her fifth and final arrangement Sharon gave us a hint of the Gower Coast with her use of a homemade replica of a lighthouse with cow parsley white delphiniums and lime green chrysanthemums to replicate waves of the sea.

Elizabeth Gordon (Area) will be our demonstrator for the next meeting on Wednesday, June 6, 7.30pm at Nailsworth Town Hall.