Library Display
Members of The Bartram Garden Club, Inc. place complimentary floral designs in the foyer of the Fernandina Beach Branch of the Nassau County Public Library System on a rotating basis during every month. This community service project allows members to hone their floral design skills in a fun and relaxed venue, and at the same time, introduces the general public to specific plant materials and mechanics commonly used in floral design art. As an additional educational tool, all plant material is identified with the common and scientific botanical names.
To see previous library designs, visit the Library Designs 2017 - 2019 page, Library Designs 2020 - 2022 page and Library Designs 2023 - 2024 page.
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March 2025
Petite Flora Designs by Beverly Williams
NGC Petite Designs are designs between 3 and 12 inches tall. Special attention is paid to the principle of Scale when making these small designs.
Left: “NASCAR: Start Your Engines” interpretation
Title: Green means go. Many turns and twists ahead.
A petite design using a car part.
Components: Crankcase Vent Filter atop a tire pressure gauge, African iris seed pods, Siberian iris seed pods, Acrylic ribbon, Manufactured red faux flower.
Center: Title “Winter Brown turns to Spring”
A petite design using dried plant materials are painted spring colors.
Components: Metal structure, Dried and painted Siberian iris seed pods, Dried and painted Cyperus foliage, Dried and painted Agapanthus seed pods.
March 2025
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Arrangement contributed by Beverly Williams
Sunrise, by Mariette Wooden
Plant materials: Bamboo, Fatsia, Hydrangea, Spanish Moss, Palm and Pampas Grass.
A Creative Group Mass Design: This design type is unlike most other creative designs as it uses a bounty of plant material, which all radiate from a common point. The plant material is grouped, rather than dispersed like traditional arrangements.
February 2025
Design by Karen Stanley
Plant materials: Roses, variegated ginger, mums, variegated pittosporum.
February 2025
Design by Jill Guenther
“Year of the Wood Snake”
January 29, 2025-February 15, 2026
Yin Wood - associated with flowers, leaves and grasses.
Plant materials: Bambusa vulgaris - common bamboo, Callicarpa americana - beautyberry (seeds), Farfugium japonicum - tractor seat plant (seed pod), Hydrangea macrophylla - Hydrangea (flower), Ipomoea batatas -sweet potato vine (vine and leaves).
January 2025
"Winter Mix” Bare wood and evergreens contrast in a winter landscape.
by Beverly Williams
Plant materials: drift wood, sago palm, painted bromeliads, philodendron, agapanthus seed heads (painted).
January 2025
"Winter Whimsy" Some whimsy to brighten a winter day.
Botanical Art by Beverly Williams
Plant material: Oak tree acorns, Pine tree bark, Pinecones, Tillandsia usneoides - (Spanish Moss, a perennial flowering epiphyle which grows on oak trees. It is *not* Spanish nor a moss or a parasite.), Dried mushrooms (tree-dwelling fungi), Liquidambar (Sweetgum tree) Seed Pod Balls, Dried Sunflowers, Cladonia spp. (Reindeer Lichen) and Usnea Lichen, Tree bark wooden kitchen "spoon", Dried flowers from a Palm tree spathe (fairy "hair").
January 2025
“Happy New Year,” by Karen Reily
Plant Materials: Ananas comosus, Ivory pineapple, Bambusa chungii, Blue bamboo, Agapanthus spp, Tillandsia usneoides, Spanish moss, Stromantha triostar.
