CPK Floral Designs

- SECOND FLOOR DINING ROOM, A MAN AND A WOMAN SITTING IN AN ARBOR TAPESTRY PANEL, BY JACQUES GUEBELS AND JAN RAES OF BRUSSELS (FLANDERS), CA. 1600

Photo by Tori Del Photography

Florist’s inspiration: I was inspired to recreate the wooded landscape sheltering the handsome King Henri II of France (1519-1559) and his beloved royal mistress, Diane De Poi- tiers (1499-1566), shown in this tapestry woven in the atelier of Jacques Guebels and Jan Raes (ca.1575-ca.1625) called “A Man and a Woman Sitting in an Arbor.” Diane is depicted as the Goddess Diana whose symbols are the bow and quiver as she is the Goddess of the wilderness and the hunt. You will see the bow and quiver tucked into the greenery of the arbor I’ve created to shelter a stolen moment of love and pleasure in the privacy of a ser- ene, wooded glen. Highlighting the hues of their clothing are a beautiful array of fresh and faux flowers, tree branches, plants, succulents and greenery.

Recipe: Soft and hardy succulents including echeveria, haworthia, sedum, sempervivum, crassula; tree branches of maple, birch, cherry and magnolia. Greenery includes salal lemon leaf, nagi, plumosa, tree ferns, bear and lily grasses, red huckleberry, euonymus, coccu- lus, aspidistra leaves, eucalyptus, pittosporum, Spanish moss, sheet moss and Smilax Vine. Flowers: roses, spray roses, limonium, chry- santhemums, dianthus green ball, alstromeria, delphinium, larkspur, astrantia, aster, solidago, lepidium, scabiosa, helleborus, veronica, hypericum berries, stock and thistle.

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