Create a Unique Disc with Plant Material:

By Liz Chapman
(Education committee 2011)

During a recent visit to New Zealand, Marie Françoise Déprez, Floral Designer from France made discs from Bear Grass to incorporate into a design.

Illustrated is her design. [Photographer: Janthia Holt]

[Click the photos below for a closeup view of the design]

REQUIREMENTS:

• Firm Cardboard
• Double Sided Tape
• Clothes Pegs
• Four pieces of foliage from Phormium cookianum also referred to as New Zealand Mountain Flax. Remove the firm centre stem from flax foliage and shred flax into narrow strands.

STEP 1:

Cut a round shape from firm cardboard, remove a small round piece of cardboard from centre and cover cardboard shape with double sided tape.

STEP 2:

Remove protective paper from double sided tape and begin to wind flax around cardboard.

STEP 3:

Continue to wind flax around cardboard disc and fasten if necessary with pegs.

STEP 4:

Continue to bind more flax around cardboard until desired thickness.

When the disc is completed incorporate it into a modern design.
Design by Liz Chapman

The illustrated design includes mitred flax flower stems, Muehlenbeckia astonii and the disc.