24 Feb Tuesday…with Spring Ikebana

I always like to be inspired by what the garden has to offer, even if it doesn’t seem like there’s much around, but at the moment I love how the snowdrops are poking through the dead montbretia leaves… …even though there’s a lot of dead stuff around which needs to be cleared, I find the natural flow of the plants movement quite captivating… …as was this rust I found yesterday It made me want to create an ikebana arrangement to reflect what’s happening in the garden, so I collected some unlikely and minimal candidates…( I was quite tempted to leave all the jam jars on the mantlepiece… )
I chose this ikebana vessel as I thought it had a flow to it which was reflected in the plants…My first idea had been to work in the snowdrops, like they had been in the garden, but I couldn’t make it work……and the daffodils suddenly gave it that Spring punctuation I was after!You can also see the Steller version here