In Ikenobo Ikebana we love to be creative, and in this tip I’d like to show you as simple way to get  creative with leaves, by using wire.

This is a simple way to take soft leaves that will break if bent or just spring back and shape them the way you want them.  Here I demonstrate how to bend beautiful cordyline leaves into gentle curves.  This is a technique I use in lots of arrangements.  In rikka I can make the right-angled bends we need to accompany mizugiwa and in freestyle….well you’ll see in my finished arrangement.