As winter ends and spring arrives, trees buds, flowers change color, and the natural scenery that enters your eyes change. During this season when plants are lively, we asked Yoshida Koji of Kojien, who also asks for flowers to be arranged at Mizuiroind shops and exhibitions, about their recommended arrangements.
"In this season when many new shoots appear, I chose flowers based on the theme of "blowing up" plants," says Yoshida Koji from Kojien, Kagurazaka, Tokyo. This time we have adopted nine types of flowers, including gibbons, gummy, elderberry, roe beetle, Christmas rose, flannel flowers, erringium, niggella, and eucalyptus, and other seasonal flowers that are about to bloom and branches with new shoots.
The kifuji, which is decorated with yellow-green flowers in a cluster, is a typical spring flower tree. Elderly elders are deciduous shrubs found in the mountains and fields, and all other flowers, except for eringium, are blooming in the fields and mountains. Yoshida said, "The arrangement itself is natural, with an awareness of its nature, and we put together it in a direction that is not too detailed." The scenery of plants in nature comes to mind, including trees that grow freely and freely in the fields and mountains, and flowers that grow naturally, both modest yet dignified.
The red flowers appear to be blooming the spear beetles. It is actually still a bud, and its fragrant white flowers will begin to bloom. Christmas roses also bloom from winter to spring. There are many variations in flower colour and shape, and the flower is characterized by its flowering in a more greener than white, and its flowering slightly more like a downward look. The fluffy flannel flower is also a slightly greenish white. "As flowers and trees become more colorful as spring approaches, we see a lot of pale, beautiful green 'young buds' and a calm, deep green color rather than a vivid green color."
For living arrangements like this one, you can simply put them in a large vase, or just remove the branches from here and display them. Branches last better than flowers, so they are attractive for being able to display them for a long time. "There are some people who say that branches are difficult to balance, but the trick to choosing one is to make the silhouette when you choose one. By choosing one with movement, even if you deliberately display it in a rough way, it will fit beautifully. If you choose branches with interesting movements and display them without getting into the shape, they will be closer to natural shapes. We recommend this free style of flowers and trees that bloom in the wild."
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photo: Akiko Baba text & edit: Chizuru Atsuta
