I often love to practise working with primarily one flower, which gives me an opportunity to really get to know its personality ! With such an attention-grabbing flower such as the anthurium you have to know how to make it be a little more
sociable... how to make it fit in with other flowers if you are using them...and how to take advantage of its strengths.
I once had to do a bridal bouquet with bright red anthuriums, and white lilies with dark green foliage - a very unforgiving combination. It was early in my career, and it took a long time to recover !
I recently bought a book by Pim Van Den Akker, called ANTHURIUM , in which he makes about 50 different arrangements using this flower with very few other flowers.
This is my effort, using anthuriums (I think they are
Choco and
Fantasia), soft pink hypericum berries and dodda vine, in an old tin bucket which provided a perfect textural contrast.
I was very pleased with it, and thought it would look great on a coffee table in a very modern corporate office foyer. Which is exactly where it ended up !
Thank you for creating such an inspiring book, Pim !
You can read more about the flower
here.
