Flowers& - July 2018

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RADIANT SPACE Radial lines, all fanning out from the center, offer a classic design

you intend to use them as single blossoms. But when the lower

strategy with many variations. Here, Joyce has left space between

blooms have been removed for use in another design, you can

the groupings of millet (plumes and stems), chocolate cosmos,

still take advantage of the long, sturdy main stem in a design like

and an apparently top-heavy stem of cymbidiums, creating

this one. This design bursts with energy, radiating from a point

drama and the exquisite tension of perfectly balanced asymmetry.

just below the horizon line established by the rim of the Weathered

Cymbidium orchids are best purchased by the stem, even when

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