Stretch your imagination and create a bonsai-inspired ikebana design, a three-dimensional artform of flower-arranging.
Ikebana and bonsai both represent similar Japanese aesthetics in the appreciation of impermanent and imperfect beauty in nature; and they share similar practices in studying, trimming, and shaping of branch materials. Get inspired by the asymmetrical and miniaturized bonsai specimens we have in the Gardens. Students bring their own container and cutting tool—either a pair of hasami or their favorite pruners.
Certificate Information
This class serves as an elective component of our Floral Design Certificate.
Location
Grove Studio 108
Instructor
Cres Motzi AIFD is a graduate of Longwood Gardens Certificate of Merit in Floral Design and an internationally trained floral designer. She was inducted into the American Institute of Floral Designers in 2010. Having graduated from Boerma Institute in Holland with diplomas in professional and advanced Dutch design, Motzi has been a full-time designer who now works as a freelancer for events and weddings. She is a floral design demonstrator and has written tutorials and articles for By Design, a quarterly publication of GCA. Her works have been published in Green Scene, a publication of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society; Flower Arranging the American Way; International Floral Art Annual 2010/11; the Jubilee Edition of International Floral Art 2014-15; Asian Allure; and Artistic Floral Design 2020. She has successfully completed a European Masters Certification program with Tomas de Bruyne of Belgium in May 2012, received her certification in September 2013, and is now an AIFD Certified Floral Evaluator/Judge. Motzi is a 3rd-grade Sogetsu Ikebana teacher.
