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Benllech Flower Club
All are welcome to come along and join our group. Enjoy the opportunity to meet with others with similar interest in flower arrangements and creative designs.
Below is an account of our recent Silver Anniversary as a Flower Club.
Our Flower Club Celebrates 25 Years Read more here Below you will find accounts of the most recent meetings of the Benllech Flower Club.
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Kay Middlemiss
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Not rated yet LATEST: April, 2007 At Benllech Flower Club’s April meeting we were taken ‘Cruising Along’ some of Britain’s popular canals. Demonstrator Shirley Robinson, is a canal enthusiast and she based her demonstration on boating holidays she had taken with her family.
The idea of ‘boats’ would probably make most flower arrangers think of a blue and white colour scheme - not Shirley. Her first cruise was bright with yellow eremurus, chrysanths, tulips and red gerbera; and the Cheshire Ring became stargazer lillies.
Other boats and holidays were depicted in roses, carnations, eustoma and flowers from her garden. The finale was a chandelier to represent the ‘grand cruise’ in deep pink lillies, carnations, gerbera and camelias. What a lovely way to remember a holiday.
Kay Middlemiss
Tuesday 15th May Members: Please inform committee member if you intend to join us. Mr & Mrs Hubbel of Rhyd, Trefor have kindly agreed to open their garden which has been extended since our last visit. Open Garden - Rhyd, Trefor Non-members Welcome £2.50 Further info. From Pat Bolton 01248 410711
Tuesday 17th April 7.30pm All welcome to Benllech Flower Club meeting Demonstration (“Come Cruising Along”) by Shirley Robinson Benllech Community & Ex-Servicemen’s Hall Further info from Pat Bolton 01248 410711 REVIEW The Club began their 2007 programme in February with a demonstration by Jilly Hodge from Glan Conwy.
Jilly is a frequent and popular visitor to the club, and with her theme for the evening “BeB my Guest”, she presented a delightful mix of traditional and modern flower arrangements.
Jilly had just returned from a visit to South Africa and had a fund of amusing stories to entertain her ‘guests’. There was also a definite African influence in some of her designs, interpreted by vivid colours and exotic flowers and foliage.
New Club Chairman Jenny Markanday reminded members that the meeting on the 20th March would be a special occasion - the Club’s 25th anniversary - with demonstrator Sionedd Hughes from Oswestry. The Club meets at the Community & Ex-Servicemen’s Hall on the third Tuesday in the month at 7.30pm. Visitors are always welcome. Kay Middlemiss THE FLOWER ARRANGING CLASS
So it's the last day of term. Students arriving with armfuls of flowers and foliage stop to chat and joke about their ‘grand finale’.
It is difficult to believe that only twelve weeks ago these same ladies sat lost and bewildered, among all the wrong flowers and nowhere near enough greenery, for their first serious lesson in floral art.
We began with how to do a simple triangle, the most basic and useful of all the traditional designs. The resultant round triangles, square triangles, tall, flat, thin and squashed-in triangles had some of us in fits of laughter and some near to tears.
It’s not as easy as it looks!
Kay Middlemiss was our patient teacher; we listened and we learned. We learned to pick our stems long, you can always cut it down but can’t put in back. We remembered not to soak our oasis until it fell apart, and never to use an even number of flowers.
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Just complete this simple form here. It's as easy as 1-2-3! We studied the principles and theory of design. How to use texture, form and space, and the effects of colour is a fascinating subject.
We learned to look at flowers and leaves in an entirely new way. In fact, we started to think like flower arrangers. Each week we studied a different style of shape - all round, vertical, crescents and Hogarths, even all foliage arrangements.
As our work improved we practised using accessories, driftwood, candles. Most importantly we learned to look objectively at our own and each others work. At the end of each lesson we would discuss what was good about each arrangement and how it might be improved.
It is amazing how much you can learn if you know what to look for.
As we gained confidence a spirit of friendly competition arose. Our designs became bigger, bolder; we started to develop our own style.
The two hour lessons flew by and there was always next week to look forward to.
“What are we going to do now on a Friday afternoon?” someone asked. “Do you want to come back next term and do intermediate?” The answer was a unanimous “Yes please!”
Jenny Markanday, Chairman, Benllech Flower Club The flower arranging classes are sponsored by 'Learning Skills Wales'. They are held at the Community & Ex-Servicemens Hall, Benllech on Friday afternoons.
Former club member, Elaine Thomas from Llandonna, assisted by her young daughter Ffion, was the demonstrator for Benllech Flower Club’s December meeting.
Elaine’s theme was A Child’s View of Christmas, so Ffion chose six seasonal items for her mother to interpret in flower arrangments. A round glass bowl filled with fir cones looked remarkably like a ‘Christmas pudding’ when decorated with yellow roses and winter jasmin. The ‘cake’ was created from red carnations and white chrisanths; and the ‘card’, a cut-out with pink lillies and carnations.
For the ‘present’ a large brown paper parcel was decorated with gold twigs and red roses. Pink carnations featured in the ‘tree’, a green willow branch with green anthuriums and mop-head chrisanths.
Elaine is a gardener and she always provides an interesting selection of shrubs for her foliage. This was especially true of her finale, ‘the visit to church’, in yellow and white carnations, chrisanths and freesia. The meeting was one of the club’s “bring a friend free” evenings which provided an enthusiastic audience for the last meeting of 2006. Benllech Flower Club meets on the third Tuesday in the month at the Community & Ex-Serviceemen’s Hall at 7.30pm.
October 2006 meeting “Scene through a Window” was the intriguing title of Benllech Flower Club’s October meeting. Starting with a childhood memory of looking out on a snowy morning - a simple green and silver study with white lily - Rosemary Scholes of Warrington took us peeping through windows at some of the gorgeous floral displays we might see.
A Ball was in progress at the ‘big house’ where gilded ferns and laurel branches framed stargazer lily; pink roses and white anthuriums.
An arrangement on driftwood marked the seasonal view with autumnal coloured leaves and berries; bronze spray chrisanths and pumpkins from her garden.
We looked through the window of a Flower Club workshop where pale pink anthuriums were being arranged with green medori and prado carnations in a silver cauldron shaped pot.
And for the modernists among us, a night-time view from a car window on the motorway was dramatically recreated with black and copper pipes dressed with black bamboo, bronze phormium, hydrangea and brilliant orange gerbera.
For her finale Rosemary changed the mood to tranquillity with a stained glass windown in blue gentian, red carnations and deep yellow roses.
Kay Middlemiss
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