Tiki Ikebana

I recently did some fun floral arrangements for a girlfriend's fabulous Tiki party. They built a lovely retro outbuilding with kitchen and bar decorated with retro Hawaiian kitsch.

I enjoyed the challenge of taking flowers out of my Pacific Northwest garden to create some tropical floral arrangements.

The Ikebana arrangement above has large purple clematis blooms representing earth, euryngium sea holly representing man, and the delphinium spike representing sky. The accents are boxwood hedge stems, spanish lavendar, grass and lady's mantel leaves.

Peonies, giant hosta leaves, and a sprig of grass make a simple hula girl bouquet.

Me and three of my hula girlfriends.