The Bird of Paradise Ikebana (at left) appears in Yukiko’s new video — a one minute showing of her distinctive style in floral design.

We placed the video in her Yelp!  listing to let viewers differentiate the artistic form of her studio craft from the generic arrangements of flower shops.

No secret: there are many commercial florists listed on Yelp!  Yukiko’s blend of ikebana and contemporary styles stand-out uniquely.

The independent floral design studio enables creative freedom.  Check it out in Yukiko’s video on Yelp!

Yukiko adds lily grass and curly willow to the orchids in this hand-crafted, flat vase (13″ wide, 3″ opening.

Cymbidium Bouquet

Is this design more “ikebana” than “blended contemporary style(s)?”  Let Yukiko know what you think.

Check out the new “freestyle ikebana” and ikebana gallery” blog pictures.

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Early flowering of quince in this mild winter weather inspires Yukiko’s  ikebana of New Year’s kadomatsu and, of course, quince with Marin’s seasonal flowers and berries.

Cymbidium and kale complete this simple yet refined design by Yukiko.

Floral design blends Hawaiian, Ikebana and contemporary styles.

Yukiko starts the new year selecting weekly designs to display in FloralDesignbyYukiko blog on Wednesdays.  She posts additional photogenic designs from her studio as opportunity suggests during the week.

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Three bamboos with orchids, kale and curley willow symbolize health and prosperity at Smith Ranch Homes in San Rafael.

5′ bouquet in the traditional style of Japanese kadomatsu.

Wed­ding pho­tographs for Jolie and Nori, at the Uni­ver­sity Club in San Fran­cisco, were taken by JAY­TSAIpho­tog­ra­phy . Yukiko noticed that Jay’s pic­tures included nearly all the flo­ral arrange­ments of the Ike­bana Wed­ding Flow­ers theme.
Click to view more of the ikebana flo­ral suite by Yukiko.

Celebration floral design includes Nandina berries from Marin wrapped with curly willow.

Hawaiian and Ikebana motifs blend with contemporary floral design styles by Yukiko.

Fairfax, California, April 2011

Yukiko used Spring flowers in this Rising Orchid design: white phaelanopsis, green spider mums, equisitum and harakeke.  This freestyle ikebana is characterized as respectful and uplifting.

Yukiko designs many sympathy flower arrangements, often in ikebana freestyle,

San Francisco, California, March 2011.  

Ikebana theme for wedding at University Club in San Francisco creates photo essay in Floral Design blog.

   Above is one of several different ikebana table centers prepared for wedding dinner at University Club.

Additional images by JAYTSAIphotography appear on Ikebana Wedding Flowers page.

This college textbook, in its recently published Seventh Edition, added a new chapter (19), “Decorating With Growing Plants and Fresh Flowers.”  It features eight of Yukiko’s designs.

You may see the eight photographs in color in our special pdf document here: 8 Floral Designs by Yukiko

Practical Horticulture has been written through 7 editions by Laura Williams Rice and Robert P. Rice Jr., and published by Prentice Hall.

The new, 7th edition, as well as older editions, are catalogued for sale on Amazon.com .

For free, you can take a look now at the colorful 8 Floral Designs by Yukiko.