The Cam, Dursley & District u3a Sustainable Floristry Group created an arrangement using a flower frog at the October meeting. Originally used in Japanese floral design as far back as the 14th century, a patents was issued in 1875 for a "flower holder" using spikes.

The frogs come in many shapes and sizes and are something to look out for at car boot sales and online!

We had a wonderful selection of dried seed heads, pods, grasses and rosehips to use.

It was perhaps a more formal way of working than we usually do. The flower frogs were stuck down with special waterproof tape, then covered in chicken wire. It was very tempting to overload our frogs with dried stems leading to rather top heavy arrangements before a bit of judicious 'pruning'. Fresh flowers were added at the last stage to provide a pop of colour.

As we always find, each arrangement was different to the rest! We all agreed that a frog is a welcome addition to our tool box,

View our arrangements

First video of our arrangements.

Second video of our arrangements.