Ikebana For Your Dinner Table ( Flower Arrangements)

by Tarla Dalal

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Preparation Time: 25 mins Cooking Time: 0 mins Total Time: 25 mins 1Makes 1 ikebana

Ingredients

Things You Will Need
4 mini anthuriums
5 small chrysanthemums
2 fern fronds
1 thick stem
pin holder
soaked floral foam (approx. 1 inch high)
plate ( 10 inches in diameter)
red and green beads
clear adhesive tape
wire
pliers and secateurs

Method

Take a 22-inch long wire. Alternately thread five green and four red beads onto the wire.
Twist the wire ends.
Form a triangular shape.
Attach a short piece of the thick stem with the help of clear adhesive tape.
Similarly prepare two more triangles ( each with 19-inch long wire).
Place the pin holder in the center.
Firmly place the soaked foam on the pin holder.
Bend the wire.
Fix the largest triangle into the soaked foam.
Similarly fix the remaining two triangles.
Fix three anthuriums on the triangle (one anthurium at the back).
Fix the remaining anthurium in front of the triangles.
Take two small fern fronds and remove the lower leaflets.
Fix the fronds to the arrangement.
Mask the foam with the chrysanthemums and arrange the beads.