Floral Design by Yukiko

 

Happy Birthday Ikebana is loosely wrapped with curly willow and harakeke – opening to show the cymbidium and chrysanthemums

More of Yukiko’s original, freestyle ikebana appear in her website’s Ikebana Gallery.

Kentfield, California – March 2010

This original sympathy and condolence ikebana was designed for memorial gathering in San Rafael.

San Rafael, California, February 2010.

Design of cymbidium, dendrobium, equisitum, curly willow and leaves create quiet dignity in uplifting spirit.

San Francisco, February 2010.

Japanese floral design, cymbidium orchids, red amaryllis, curly willow with moss, harakeke, Marin seasonal foliage, created for another artist.

Floral Theme Creates Four Distinctive Designs by Yukiko:

Client asked me to create four designs with traditional holiday colors, but not in the generic style common among Christmas Decorations.  The party invitation showed tree-tip branches with snow flakes clinging.  So I took my theme from there, beginning with Oak branches and moss with silvered berries.   In the side-piece below, the design is completed with Oriental Lilies, holly with traditional red berries, pine cone, pomegranate and various leaves and foliage.

The theme carries through the tallest centerpiece;  below the oak branches are completed with cala lilies in unusual color, with white Oriental Lilies and holly, et cetera.

 

The second centerpiece is topped with white oriental lilies, and wrapped with curly willow, and uplifting bands of harakeke with holly and silvered berries.

Red, white and green:  roses orchids, holly, harakeke and curly willow… This bouquet has recently been posted on my Online Bouquets page along with one of those shopping cart buttons.

 

Phalaenopsis in white and red with curly willow in dark brown basket.

Sandersonia Flowers with hydrangea, lisianthus: exotic golden bell flowers (some people call them
Chinese lanterns) for the discriminating taste.

Sophistication: large blooming oriental lilies with anthurium counterpoint;
variegated ivy, equisitum, mock orange and pine cones – in glazed pottery container.

This tall celebration arrangement with James Strei orchids includes Freedom Roses, larkspur, and leucadendron in heavy glass vase, wrapped in curly willow.