There is no competition in Ikebana, no striving to better someone else. The object is simply to create something beautiful for the delight of others and in doing so inform ourself...

Red Hot Pokers, especially when savaged by snails, are tricky to incorporate into an arrangement, but I really love trying to use plants even when they're fading beauties...

I don't have an enormous garden by any stretch of the imagination, so I'm always so proud of its colourful bounty...