The Art of Ikebana on Show at the Spring Festival in Wellington

The Spring Festival Ikebana Exhibition will be held in the Lady Norwood Begonia House at the Wellington Botanical Gardens on Saturday 31 August and Sunday 1 September. Our Sogetsu teachers and two of their students created beautiful arrangements using fresh spring flowers for the public to see.

The Begonia House viewed across the rose garden

Glenys arranged small yellow chrysanthemum and broom in a beautiful black ceramic vase

Adriana arranged red alstroemeria, variegated leaves in a triangular container covered with a piece of netting

Natalie, a student of Setsuko arranged a tall blossom branch with a camellia branch and flower in a pottery container within a curved piece of driftwood

Nim, a student of Setsuko arranged beautifully toned orchids and freesias with strong vine branches in a pottery vase

In a blue ceramic vase, Kate arranged purple freesias, pink tulips with tall branches showing hanging flowers

Sandi and Elizabeth worked together to arrange a flowering magnolia branch, broad leaves and a strong cut branch in a pottery vase

Sandi created a tall arrangement using yellow freesias, one narrow variegated leaf and one broad leaf with a piece of driftwood in a ceramic vase

Setsuko arranged a tall astelia leaf with budding magnolia flowers, daffodils and variegated foliage in a white, triangular container

In a large, beautifully shaped ceramic vase, Masako arranged vines with lilies and colour matching freesia

Elizabeth arranged strong, curved hazel branches with banksia, freesias and japonica flowers in a tall pottery vase

Yoko arranged strong, blossom branches with white freesia, camellia flowers and leaves in a ceramic container

Helen's arrangement in a beautiful cane basket includes tall raspberry cane, pussy willow, variegated arum leaves and japonica flowers

Kathy arranged tall dry grasses, pussy willow, warratah, clivia flowers and seedheads in a low container

Sandi arranged pink tulips and rice flowers with foliage and branches in a beautiful horizontal, raised vase

Alyson arranged tall leucadendron with muehenbeckia and helibore flowers in a low ceramic container

Setsuko arranged a branch of budding magnolia flowers, daffodils and variegated foliage in a white, triangular container

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