The annual meeting this year was held at Ceresville Mansion in Frederick and concluded Carolyn Braverman’s two year period at the helm of District V. Our new District V Director comes from Taneytown Garden Club in Carroll County–Lynn Walter. She promises to link our committees from top to bottom so that we are all working together more closely.
Carroll Garden Club had submitted our yearbook for an award and we did get Third Place. Competition is tough out there!
Each club was asked to contribute a “Period Arrangement” to go along with the program, featuring designers from within District V who would compose period pieces from Victorian to modern. I noticed the change from mass arrangements early on to the Asian influences of line design and to the increasing use of non-plant materials and contrived shaping of leaves and additions of tropical flowers as time passed.
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- Modern. Our table was in the shadows so this is the best shot I got.
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- Looks 60’s flower power
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- Driftwood
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- Mass with alstroemeria
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- 1950’s?
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- Line? 40’s?
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- Teapot loveliness
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- Love this elephant container!
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- Not sure when orchids started to become more used.
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- Line mass with willow.
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- Nicely done in an urn.
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- The first picture was shaded, so here is a close up of the flowers used.
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- Using flowers and.or herbs gathered in a doily.
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- Started with lots of greenery, more than the flowers.
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- Very informal look in hard times.
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- WWII introduced closer relation with Japan. Marjorie did this one.
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- Elegant and glamorous with Strelitzia
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- I understand the Hogarth Curve is considered a challenge.
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- 70’s were really into using dried flowers
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- I’m guessing this is illustrating a sense of movement?
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- This is a love it or hate it style that used all kinds of weird elements along with a few pieces of plant material.
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- An example of leaf manipulation.
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- Lynn gets a hummingbird feeder.
