Style: Decorative

Description:
We create an all sided decorative arrangement, but it still has a natural feeling. We do this in a basket with oasis and a cone form. The cone must be covered with different materials. We try to create an interesting difference in texture. For he top we use a natural woven clock form. As an extra texture we use some copper wire around the arrangement.

We need for this lesson:

• A basket and a pot for inside or plastic.

• Oasis for in the basket and a oasis cone form to put on top of it.

• Pine green and several conifers.

• Pine cones.

• Reindeer moss.

• Sheet moss or pillow moss.

• Christmas balls.

• A woven clock form.

• Spool wire and copper wire.

• Eventually some additional materials such as apples, mushrooms and so on.

Step by step:

1. Use  an inner pot or plastic in the basket to prevent leaking water.
2. Fill the basket with Oasis and fix the Oasis cone. (You also can make this by yourself by using peaces of Oasis. Cover it with wire netting.)
3. Put a few bamboo sticks from the top of the cone to the bottom to fix it.
4. Put in the green branches. Work in groups.
5. Fix the moss on the cone form and fix it with pins. By working in strong groups and when you take care for contrasts in texture, there will be an interesting pattern.
6. Put the clock on the top of the cone.
7. Make with copper wire an extra decorative layer around the arrangement.

Materials used are: Picea pungens 'Glauca', Chamaecyparis obtusa"Nana Gracilis", Thuja occidentalis, Cladina stellaris (reindeer moss), Pinus-cones, Cedrus-cones, sheet moss, glass balls and copper wire.

For more information see the book:

• Winterse feestdagen
• Flowerworld, a road to floral art

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Last update of this page 16.02.2005