3rd April 2025 • The HERALD • Page 51 v SAY YOU SAW IT IN THE HERALD v DOWN THE GARDEN PATH BLACKFIELD FLOWER CLUB Club, Exbury Road, Black eld, SO45 1XD – visitors welcome, please contact Jan Gordon on: 023 8084 4835 for more details. e members of Black eld Flower Club welcomed Carolyn Vanstone, Area Demonstrator from Southampton to their March meeting. e demonstration was entitled ‘Lurking in the Garage’. e rst design featured a bicycle wheel (spokes removed) covered in red wool and mounted on a tall metal stand together with a matching smaller inner circle. Foliage was added to the two placements including dracena, fatshedera, arum italicum picton marmoratum and pittisporum. Green carnations, orange spiky jatropha and yellow craspedia completed the design. A tall pale green metal candle holder with a pale green airy circular wall hanging attached was used for this design. Ivy, pink antirrhinums, beautiful bright blue delphiniums and mauve clematis were inserted into both placements. A very pretty and dainty design. e third design featured a large brown pottery urn. A green collar of foliage had been arranged. Red cornus and some grass provided the outline before adding unusual pretty pale pink spiky gerberas and some cream hypericum berries. A tall metal jug was used for this design and no foam was used. White ranunculas, pink antirrhinums, mauve spray roses and double mauve hellebores were used together with a stem of dried material and a second placement completed this very pretty design. e last design featured a large pearlised orange Carolyn Vanstone with her arrangements jug. Aucuba, dracena and hebe provided the outline. Carolyn demonstrated how to use a phormium leaf to make a version of bear grass which added interest to the design. Yellow pin cushion proteas, green carnations, craspedia and blue irises completed the design. An enjoyable a ernoon with Carolyn and some ideas for recycling and re-using items found in the garage. e next meeting will take place on Tuesday 8th April, at 2pm when Liz Pelley will be leading a workshop. Meetings take place on the second Tuesday of the month at the Royal British Legion
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