IKEBANA DREAMING

Check out these newly listed vases and our array of display stands at the IkebanaDreaming collection on Etsy. This Ohara-style vase is a...

Fail, fail again, fail better. -- Samuel Beckett Pardon the interlude these past couple months. With COVID's relentless march across the...

Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on. -- Joni Mitchell The Holiday Season is here…. Somehow, the exclamation point seems...

The holidays are fast approaching. Although they’re sure to be different this year, showing love to family and friends is more important...

...discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. -- Marcel Proust On my morning walk, the air is...

I live in Bend, Oregon, perhaps one of the most beautiful places on the planet. It sits at the base of towering Mt. Bachelor and the...

Alstroemeria is that humble bloom that can save the day in ikebana. It’s so easy, you feel like a pro, so abundant and affordable, it’s...

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. -- Shunryu Suzuki I was a little awestruck...

I’m a swimmer and a fan of the writer Bonnie Tsui. She loves swimming and writes about it often and eloquently. In a recent article, she...

Perhaps the tulip is the only earthly bloom that boasts a Golden Age. Yes, Tulipmania was really a thing. There was a time in the 17th...

The poet must not avert his eyes. - Werner Herzog In an ikebana class, we students were once asked to pick an emotion -- anger, sadness,...

Say what? Following is a simple translation: KARUKAYA – a reed (Themeda triandra var. japonica, a variety of kangaroo grass) HASHIRAKAKE...

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. -- William Butler Yeats And so it...

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils.... Alain de Botton It's that time. Can we all agree?...

Let's continue the deconstruction of an arrangement from an earlier post that illustrates nageire, a style of arrangement featuring a...

Forsythia is uniquely suited to ikebana. Its long, meandering branches create an elegant line for shin or soe (main stems). The blazing...

I've been away awhile, and by that I mean from ikebana. It's been winter and in Central Oregon the flowers and flora burrow deep and...

Sogetsu Portland hosted The Radiance of Autumn, an ikebana exhibit at the Portland Japanese Garden on October 26-27. The show was a...

Did you know you can purchase ikebana vases and accessories here at Ikebana Dreaming? Just click on the SHOP link above to find a great...

I've organized an Ikebana Meetup here in Bend, OR. If you live nearby, please join us! We gather once a month. Most members have had...