They are form Michigan. Thank you, for growing such beaituful flowers, Growers!
WOW!
So beautiful!
I love flowers and do Ikebana;the Japanese art of arranging flowers.
I didn’t know how to express their beauty.It’s in season! Gladiolus grown in Michigan have a bigger flower and steam. Sometimes too good to arrange with other flowers. They have strong personality and vary in colors.
Gladiolus is my memorable flower. It is very foreign for me as a child in Japan when I saw and heard the name for the first time. My home is very Japanese and the garden is not colorful. Pine trees and other plants shaped round or well trimmed and stone are very green and gray.
Gladiolus has many flowers in one steam and taller than other flowers.
“Very American! ”
I still remember the feeling!
In my Ikebana class my students were so good at using gladiolus and made them into a beautiful Ikebana.
I tried so hard to do Ikebana with gladiolus and realized that their beauty was appreciated in their natural beauty. I arranged them into a very traditional style called 生花Shoka. Shoka consists of main three role branches and assisting stems . This style expresses growing energy of plans upward toward the sun. It must look like growing from one single stem, just like a trunk of a tree. It has been enjoyed since 18 the century, Edo period.(Tokugawa Shogunate)
I arranged in Rikka style too. This is very traditional which completed in 15 th. I challenged using flowers very colorful and bright which matched to Texas summer in 21th century. I think very unique, though I used limited kinds of flowers I could use.
