2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Not many are fortunate enough to be born closer to the equator, where summer is all year round. Where floral aromas work for the benefit of nature without weekends and vacations, and vegetables and fruits are not transferred to market stalls either in summer or in winter. A person living to the north waits most of the year for the arrival of summer, but it flies by so quickly, giving way to lingering autumn rains and slush. Inventive and creative people have found ways to extend the summer. For this, a special kind of art was created, called "Floristics"
Floristic design
As long as Mankind exists, so much it has been trying to compete with the Creator himself, trying to show ingenuity and ingenuity where the Almighty managed to leave gaps. Having deprived northern people of year-round summer, he presented them with abundant summer herbs, which prompted a person to think about how to extend the summer.
People have learned to store natural materials for future use: herbs, leaves, flowers, seeds, nuts, berries, fruits … They make picturesque collages and panels from them, make surprisingly bright and fragrant compositions, or simply fold a flower to a flower, weaving elegant wreaths or delightful bouquets … Moreover, natural materials for crafts can be alive, dried in the shade of ventilated shelters, and even canned.
Bouquets
Perhaps the easiest way to extend the summer is to make bouquets. Not only decorative bright flowers are used, but also variegated leaves of a familiar or bizarre shape, fragrant and fluffy "legs" of conifers and even bare tree branches.
There are certain rules for drawing up bouquets for various solemn dates or bright moments in life. Each flower is assigned a zodiac sign, endowed with magical and symbolic qualities, which can be read about in numerous books.
But the best guide on the creative path is one's own soul, in the depths of which the memory of generations sits.
Bouquet of dried flowers
God created plants, the flowers of which seem to be made of paper, and therefore can continue life apart from the soil. Man named them "dried flowers" and brought out many new species in addition. Having slightly dried the already dry plants, a person uses them to create winter bouquets and decorations that can shelter summer in our homes, while frost is raging outside the window.
Strong and elegant straw
The golden stems of cereal plants seem to have been created specifically for the flight of human imagination. Since ancient times, people have been captivated by the strength and beauty of straw, which is the waste of threshing grain crops.
A practical peasant made household utensils from straw, defended his residential buildings from heavenly wrath with thatched roofs, weaved "clothes" for legs (bast shoes) and head (straw hats, popular throughout the ages).
Straw has always been one of the favorite and in-demand materials for decorative crafts that prolong the life of summer.
Poplar fluff
Poplar fluff falls asleep on summer paths of gardens and city streets, provoking allergies in people with weakened immunity, adding work to janitors and room cleaners, causing children to delight in the summer "snow".
There were people who managed to tame poplar fluff. I never cease to amaze and admire their patience, perseverance, diligence and flight of creative imagination. From annoying poplar fluff, they create masterpieces that cannot leave anyone indifferent.
Moreover, it is not at all necessary that the fluff be poplar. You can replace it with light and snow-white parachutes of a mature dandelion or other, easy-to-climb, plant seeds.
Summary
The abundance of natural creativity is inexhaustible. But it was not in vain that God created man in his own image. He put in his soul a craving for creation, which helps a person to make the world even more beautiful. A little smart, and summer will always be with you.
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