By Julie McCay Turner
The Bedford Garden Club will be handsomely represented during the Museum of Fine Art’s annual extravaganza, Art in Bloom, opening this weekend.
Bedford’s striking design complements a Western Han dynasty tomb lintel and pediment that have been in the museum’s collection since 1925. A gift of C.T. Loo, the work was excavated 10 years earlier in the village of Balitai and can be found in the Paul and Helen Bernat Galleries (Gallery 270).
Garden Club president Lisa DiSanzo and member Kim Verdries began designing their arrangement early this year, visiting the Boston Flower Exchange and Wilson Farms to select cymbidium orchids, black calla lilies, and dark, purplish foliage — ti leaves, leucadendron, and galax. Ivory carnations peeking between the orchid stems provide a bright surprise at the back of the arrangement. Editor’s Note: These carnations are altogether unlike those seen in supermarket bunches.
The pair began preparing their arrangement on Thursday and finished it during the installation at the Museum early Friday morning.
Working on Art in Bloom isn’t a new assignment for either designer, and they look forward to their daily, early morning trips to the museum to water the arrangement and replace faded blooms.
A prototype of the final arrangement was displayed at the April Garden Club meeting. Even after several weeks, the cymbidium orchids from the trial arrangement remain fresh and attractive, displayed in a casual, massed arrangement on Verdris’s mantle.
Art in Bloom gets underway with a preview reception from 5 to 10 pm on Friday, April 29. There will be a host of special events this weekend and through the time the museum closes on Monday, May 1.
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