Val and Judy, with mostly garden flowers and foliage created these beautiful designs.

You think there’s nothing in the garden in winter, but it’s amazing how much colour you can find when you look hard.

Judy and Marg did some beautiful hand tied arrangements for the launch of the Maia Foundation. A very worthy cause for us to support.

‘Handbags’ made in cut off plastic milk bottles. A fun evening with gorgeous results.

At our October meeting Judy demonstrated by doing three arrangements in about half an hour. A lot of the material was picked from the roadside, her garden, even the golf course, along with some cut flowers. Watching Judy, there is always something to learn for our members. The arrangements were auctioned off at the end of the evening with the money adding to that night’s sales’ table.

At our meeting on Tuesday 1 September, members brought along greenery and flowers and a container and then took two steps to the left and began arranging someone else’s material. After 5 minutes, we had to move again and ended up having worked on 3 or 4 different arrangements. The results, as always were stunning. We all got to take home our container and arrangement but with the added bonus of having had others make it for us! An enjoyable evening.

After the business of our June meeting, members set to designing and arranging in teacups. As always every arrangement was different, intriguing and      beautiful. Just goes to show that just when you thought there is nothing in the garden to pick, you can always come up with something!