‘Take a Piece of Wood’ was the title of Shirley Henderson’s presentation as we welcomed her to Bedford for the first time.
It was a delightful theme with all arrangements set on or within wonderfully different pieces of wood which were associated with special memories, nature or its sensory characteristics . The pieces varied from a chair made from an old tree trunk to rather large ‘sticks’ collected by her grandson. The contrasting finishing on the wood varied from highly polished to very rustic. She also included rolled bamboo garden edging – a fair imitation of wood!
Shirley included a wide variety of flowers and foliage, one arrangement devoted to a supermarket bunch supplemented with a few stems of garden material. We were also introduced to a very useful houseplant phelbodium.
It was a very informative evening as she shared her knowledge about trees. We all know ebony is the darkest wood but did you know holly is the whitest?
Thank you Shirley and Theresa for a very enjoyable and polished evening. The pictures below just give a flavour.
