He left out something EXTREMELY IMPORTANT; the HEIGHT of the arrangement in relation to the vase. The snapdragon is too tall. Doesn’t last as a cut-flower, either which implies it would have been useful to get tips on how to save the arrangement when flowers wilt at different times.
Humanity desperately needs more men like Rajiv. Please continue. At first I couldn't believe that I would ever spend so much time and thought on a bouquet... Now I'm pretty sure I WILL. It is so worth it - and not only regarding the flowers. Just living like that - putting the best artistic thought into any routine act - is something that makes life worth living.
What a beautiful arrangement! Here I am, almost 70, learning that I've been arranging flowers backward my entire life. I always put flowers in first, then filler. Now I have to make an arrangement trying it your way. Thank you for a wonderful channel. 🥀🌻
Try his way and see what see what you think, but that doesn't mean that your original way was wrong. I have done it both ways, it kind of depends on the particular flowers and my mood on that certain day. I think both ways can be useful.
rajiv, thank you for being such a wonderful and inspiring person! i’ve binged all of your videos over this past week and you motivated me to marie kondo my room, clean my entire apartment, begin writing letters to my friends and now to learn how to arrange flowers!! thank you for reminding me how lovely it is to be alive and be creative ❤️
I love your spirit for beauty. Yes, Rajiv is an inspiration but you have an open heart to beauty and cleanliness and order which also define beauty. They all go together.
Saturday morning, coffee in hand…. Why am I surprised and overjoyed to find a Rajiv video waiting for me???? Because it is the most wonderful gift to spend time in bliss!!! I am certainly blessed
I studied floral design many years ago and our teacher taught me something I’ll never forget. His words, “face as you space as you place”. Every flower has a face.
I could really see the Dutch masters influence in the arrangement, and the diffuse lighting from the window, bounced by the mirror really created the atmosphere of such a painting. I loved the anemones & the dark parrot tulips. And you explained your choices & process so well. A lovely interlude in a crazy world. And I so agree on the melancholy of flowers as they decay. My mother in law used to tip the water out and watch them desiccate further, she loved freesias in particular that way. As a young woman I found it a bit macabre & Miss Havishamesque, but as an older one I completely get it.
I've seen these colour charts on so many designer channels but I had no clue how it worked until now. You are an amazing teacher, Rajiv. Thank you for explaining subjects in your videos for us, not so verse people♥️ Stunning arrangement, so different from others.
I'd love to know how to change out the water! I usually add water with a narrow spout watering can, but changing it out without ruining everything is soooo tricky!!
Just gorgeous. I keep wondering how you’ll be able to keep coming up with more topics and ideas of things to show us and teach us. I love your channel so much. I smile through every video. I appreciate that you had little pads stuck to the bottom of your beautiful vase. It didn’t surprise me. Lovely arrangement. Have a happy day, Rajiv.
So nice to get a simple, explanatory video… I buy the ‘throw out flowers’ from the supermarket every week, they usually go out cheap, and I mix with flowers and foliage from my garden, a beautiful bouquet each week, cheap but always beautiful… brings a smile to my table every week … simple… ❤ thank you … 🇦🇺
Rajiv - you are the coolest, most interesting, and creative person on UA-cam. I hope you continue to share more of your skills and ideas with us. Thank you so very much! 💕
I loved watching you slowly make your choices in greens and flowers! Then you quoted Mrs. Dalloway, "I think I'll buy the flowers myself!" and I had to smile! I watched the movie The Hours and became infatuated with Virginia Woolf's work! As I watch your videos, it is so much fun to discover your variety of interests, skills, and knowledge! I am 72 and my family and friends have begun to encourage me to prioritize, minimize, and focus on less as I have grown older. Nonsense! I want to find more, do more, and learn more! How nice to find someone who approaches life in the same way! Rajiv, you have acquired an avid fan!!!
Wow you had me completely enthralled and enchanted with the way you presented your class. Thank you for your knowledge and wisdom. I fell in love with plant arrangements today. You added so much value to my life today, thank you. ❤
I love the tiger mom in him, "you're first even your second arrangement will probably not be good (matter of fact face)." This is the tough love I need.
I was stuck at the beginning on how beautiful your hand writing is until this beautiful arrangement started to appear. I want to live in your world. Thank you for sharing!
Raj is a slightly exaggerated version of me. I enjoy watching him probably because I was never able to find anyone as passionate about all kinds of beauty in the world and create things with. Kind of a lonely yet fulfilled life at the same time.
Ohhh snapdragons, i adore them. Also Lily of the Valley are a favorite of mine. Then, tropical tiger lilies. Haha. That would make for one odd flower arrangement,i know 😁, but those are my favorites. Tudor roses in pink are also a fav.
Oh my goodness, the way you explain/act out how purple feels next to different colours is spot on - I'm definitely doing that in my classroom. Sometimes words aren't enough to express the effect colours have on each other :D
Thank you! This inspired me at just the right time. I had to make 17 arrangements for my Aunt's "celebration of life" gathering. I would also like to say I enjoyed that the background music fades and disappears completely at times. It helps to really focus on the information and not distract from beauty of your voice.
I am so inspired with each video. I never thought I could attempt a floral arrangement with any semblance of confidence-- much less carry it out after watching one UA-cam video. Rajiv's thought process is so simple and that's why his results are always so beautiful-- whether it's cleaning the kitchen sink or wrapping a gift without tape or finding a yellowware doggy dish!
Every video of yours I've watched, I have exclaimed over how stunningly beautiful the floral arrangements were!! What skill you have! Very talented with your hands and all things creative
I'm 65 and I've done the same thing as Rose Cottage Colleen. Perhaps that was the way it was done in our time. Rajiv brings beauty and joy to everything he does.
I have been waiting for this and I'm so glad to learn your process for flower arranging.I really like what you said about how your flower arrangement should look like they're almost growing out of the vase. I admit the only I knew before this video is that you should cut your stems on an angle.This is so educational and so thoughtful. I now feel equipped to go and make my own vase of visual poetry as your arrangements always are poetic. Also, whenever your green vase is on screen I can't stop starring at it.
Magnificent, Rajiv: an under-appreciated art, fleshed out by a dynamically present eye. Your full basket of absurdly creative talents seems rather unfair to this average mortal... and yet, I adore you 🥰.
Looks great! But don't cut tulips with scissors, you'll bruise the stem. better to cut with a sharp knive and cut the stem 45 angle. Take it from this Dutchie ;-)
A fun thing I learned about these Dutch flower paintings is that often the same painting would have flowers that bloom in different seasons in one vase. It is a bit easier to get flowers that bloom at different time now than it was then. Also, in some of those paintings, there are several different light sources in one, so the light hits different flowers from different sides, which creates this eerie feeling in the painting.
I’m not a flower gal but this video had me mesmerized! Love that Rajiv emphasized enjoying the beauty of the temporariness of the flowers and the arrangement. The melancholia, the drama. So good 😍
Lovely! If you've never taken an ikebana class, I highly recommend it. Offers some different approaches/philosophies on arrangement -- for example, in ikebana, you choose 1 perspective and orient all the flowers towards that view, rather than trying to design all sides.
Waited for this video for so long! Now rewatching.. because the first time I watched it I FELL ASLEEP!! Don’t take that badly, I’m a nurse and years ago one of my co workers used to fall asleep EVERY NIGHT when I was talking to her. I said I must be boring, she said No, your voice is so soothing, I can’t help it. Which, I think must be a compliment for a nurse. It means people feel soothed and relaxed and in good hands with me. And you, my friend, have EXACTLY that same vibe.
I've always been a "stick a bunch of flowers bunch in a vase" sort of flower arranger, but you've inspired me to think a little--no, a lot!--more deeply about how to make an arrangement that's beautifully alive. I'm making plans to go back to the Legion of Honor museum in SF to really LOOK at the Dutch still life paintings.
After seeing 42 minutes of this video, I am clearly in love with the art of this arrangement and the amount of thought that is being put to each flower
One of my friends is a floral designer and I saw her thread some coated wire through her ranunculus stems to support them and I thought it was so smart! I love the rhythm and motion in your arrangement! Man I love anemone.
This was magical. Food for the soul magical. You are one talented human being, Rajiv! Can't wait to make my own arrangement using grown from seeds wildflowers (haven't bloomed yet). Thank you!
Inspiring as always. Can’t wait to try my own now. You always make me look at the “simple” things in a new way. As art. And with this, like a painting, it makes so much more sense this way. Intentional. Thank you.
I love buying flowers and arranging. Even when i take a bouquet for someone, i choose flowers and make the bouquet rather than buying a premade one. I don’t know why i do this or why I started but i love it. Love listening to your thought process ❤
I love arranging flowers in that way so it looks natural like in a garden or field. I didn't know that it was a Dutch style of arranging flowers. Beautifully done ❤
I so much locked foward watching this video. I love your videos. I cherish the Joy of being at home and taking care of it, I do a lot of things by hand too. Thank you Rajiv for sharing with us all your great ideas.
thanks to this video i've taken up flower arranging for myself. my basement suite is too dark to successfully keep plants alive (plus i can't be bothered) but having flowers in my space regularly has been so nice. thanks rajiv, you're really inspired me to enjoy and romanticize the little things.
As I am watching this, I had a flashback to watching Martha Stewart teach the same technique almost 30 years ago. It all became so apparent why I love your channel so much.
Thank you for this video, Rajiv! I have been hoping you would do one on how you do your beautiful arrangements. You describe exquitely. Nothing is left unexplained. You are a treasure!👍👍👍
Love it! I am happy you chose only a few colors, it makes it more easy to focus on the movement and drama of the arrangement. Everything you do Rajiv is superb!❤ you know what would be even more secure as you work? Floral foam. I never thought of chicken wire! good idea. Also buy floral wire, its green and very fine gage. wrapping it around the stems can reinforce it if you dont like the droop too droopy or you can even wire 3 sprigs together and work in sectional clumps for those who are overwhelmed with the arrangement part. make small controlled bunches, wire and then insert in your base.❤
This is one of the most beautiful, relaxing and Full of knowledge video that I have seen in a long long time. I am absolutely in love with you arrangement and your work
Started watching one video now I am hooked never seen such a great young person with so many talents 👏 🙌 👍 keep up the good work you inspired me to better myself ❤from 🇦🇺
Your arrangement is absolutely beautiful Rajiv. I have learnt so many things from this one video on how to arrange flowers. It just makes sense when you do it this way. Love the content on your channel, each and every one is so informative and interesting to watch. Needless to say when your video pops up I cannot wait to finish what I am doing to watch it. Thank you stay blessed and take care .❤
I use distilled water and a splash or two of hydrogen peroxide for the water for my cut flowers. It's a game changer for how long the flowers last - like an extra week! I add more or change it every 3 days or so. Daisy species flowers seem to last the longest. Beautiful video!
In some of the final seconds, it looks like one of the four parrot tulips was removed, leaving a much more graceful and dramatic line with the other three tulips. That was keen editing.
When planting flowers in outdoor pots my Mom always told me the rule was “A Thriller…A Spiller…and a Filler”.
such a cute flower arranging trifecta montage ! good on you momma flatcreek 😀
Love that ❤
Its how I do it. ❤
Me, too. It always works,
Bride, bridesmaids, gatecrasher for my arrangements.
It’s a gonna be a good day if there’s a Rajiv video !!!
AGREE 💯
🙌❤ absolutely.
Lol yes ❤
I wish he was my neighbor.
So True! 😊
Beautiful. I am reminded of what my Ikebana teacher used to say. "Leave room for the butterflies to fly around your flowers".
Oh that’s a lovely way to think of it. This way every flower has also room to breathe and be seen with some negative space around it.
He left out something EXTREMELY IMPORTANT; the HEIGHT of the arrangement in relation to the vase. The snapdragon is too tall. Doesn’t last as a cut-flower, either which implies it would have been useful to get tips on how to save the arrangement when flowers wilt at different times.
where I live we have these cutest white butterflys, they are small but sweet
Humanity desperately needs more men like Rajiv. Please continue. At first I couldn't believe that I would ever spend so much time and thought on a bouquet... Now I'm pretty sure I WILL. It is so worth it - and not only regarding the flowers. Just living like that - putting the best artistic thought into any routine act - is something that makes life worth living.
What a beautiful arrangement! Here I am, almost 70, learning that I've been arranging flowers backward my entire life. I always put flowers in first, then filler. Now I have to make an arrangement trying it your way. Thank you for a wonderful channel. 🥀🌻
Never too late to learn new things. I think that makes life more interesting
@@crystalwebster2005 I could not agree more. I signed up for tinsmithing this summer. I'm so looking forward to it 😀
Try his way and see what see what you think, but that doesn't mean that your original way was wrong. I have done it both ways, it kind of depends on the particular flowers and my mood on that certain day. I think both ways can be useful.
Rajiv, a Master at Making life Beautiful 🤩
“Nooo leaves in the water” will be stuck in my head for the next 10 years of my life ❤
lol. reminds me of "nooo wire hangers!"
Good! Don't forget it!
Learned all this from both my parents, yes, my father, too, when I was ten. From South Asia.
The white of the anemones doesn’t go with the cream.
rajiv, thank you for being such a wonderful and inspiring person! i’ve binged all of your videos over this past week and you motivated me to marie kondo my room, clean my entire apartment, begin writing letters to my friends and now to learn how to arrange flowers!! thank you for reminding me how lovely it is to be alive and be creative ❤️
Matilda, I absolutely agree with you.
I love your spirit for beauty. Yes, Rajiv is an inspiration but you have an open heart to beauty and cleanliness and order which also define beauty. They all go together.
@@margokupelian344 that might be the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me, thank you 🤍
🎉❤🎉Thank you Rajiv, I too am more enthusiastic about redecorating my Home 🏡. 😃🇨🇺
Your are such a beautiful person, making the world a more beautiful place. I'm going out to buy flowers today! 💐
Saturday morning, coffee in hand…. Why am I surprised and overjoyed to find a Rajiv video waiting for me???? Because it is the most wonderful gift to spend time in bliss!!! I am certainly blessed
I studied floral design many years ago and our teacher taught me something I’ll never forget. His words, “face as you space as you place”. Every flower has a face.
people such as yourself who try to make things special are close to God's heart
I could really see the Dutch masters influence in the arrangement, and the diffuse lighting from the window, bounced by the mirror really created the atmosphere of such a painting. I loved the anemones & the dark parrot tulips. And you explained your choices & process so well. A lovely interlude in a crazy world. And I so agree on the melancholy of flowers as they decay. My mother in law used to tip the water out and watch them desiccate further, she loved freesias in particular that way. As a young woman I found it a bit macabre & Miss Havishamesque, but as an older one I completely get it.
Interesting lady.
A shattered flower on the table or mantel under the arrangement can sometimes be a lovely addition as well.
I've seen these colour charts on so many designer channels but I had no clue how it worked until now. You are an amazing teacher, Rajiv. Thank you for explaining subjects in your videos for us, not so verse people♥️ Stunning arrangement, so different from others.
Thanks for watching!
I'd love to know how to change out the water! I usually add water with a narrow spout watering can, but changing it out without ruining everything is soooo tricky!!
I'd find a turkey baster & keep it moving till it's clean😅
Just gorgeous. I keep wondering how you’ll be able to keep coming up with more topics and ideas of things to show us and teach us. I love your channel so much. I smile through every video. I appreciate that you had little pads stuck to the bottom of your beautiful vase. It didn’t surprise me. Lovely arrangement. Have a happy day, Rajiv.
Rajiv, I have to say everyone needs a friend like you. You're so full of wisdom, personally, and hacks. Always something to learn from your videos.
So nice to get a simple, explanatory video… I buy the ‘throw out flowers’ from the supermarket every week, they usually go out cheap, and I mix with flowers and foliage from my garden, a beautiful bouquet each week, cheap but always beautiful… brings a smile to my table every week … simple… ❤ thank you … 🇦🇺
Yes I love your style of flower arranging. It is a work of love. You are artistic and talented.❤
Rajiv - you are the coolest, most interesting, and creative person on UA-cam. I hope you continue to share more of your skills and ideas with us. Thank you so very much! 💕
And Rajiv is so sweet and nice. Just a great person!
I loved watching you slowly make your choices in greens and flowers! Then you quoted Mrs. Dalloway, "I think I'll buy the flowers myself!" and I had to smile! I watched the movie The Hours and became infatuated with Virginia Woolf's work! As I watch your videos, it is so much fun to discover your variety of interests, skills, and knowledge! I am 72 and my family and friends have begun to encourage me to prioritize, minimize, and focus on less as I have grown older. Nonsense! I want to find more, do more, and learn more! How nice to find someone who approaches life in the same way! Rajiv, you have acquired an avid fan!!!
Everything this man does has grace and beauty.
Wow you had me completely enthralled and enchanted with the way you presented your class. Thank you for your knowledge and wisdom. I fell in love with plant arrangements today. You added so much value to my life today, thank you. ❤
I love the tiger mom in him, "you're first even your second arrangement will probably not be good (matter of fact face)." This is the tough love I need.
Don't you just feel yourself smiling...so good for the soul. Oh, one of my favs... the ranunculas! What a beautiful arrangement of nature in bloom 🥰
My mother-in-law, a master flower arranger and judge, may she rest in peace with flowers, would have loved this! Gorgeous! Thank you.
“The melancholic beauty of fresh flowers” would be an amazing name for a book on flower arrangement
I was stuck at the beginning on how beautiful your hand writing is until this beautiful arrangement started to appear. I want to live in your world. Thank you for sharing!
What a beautiful arrangement...and that vase 💚
What an unbelievable and amazing young man he is. Of course he would never have just a bunch of flowers on a vase, he would create art❤
So wonderful to watch your creative process, thank you.
Raj is a slightly exaggerated version of me. I enjoy watching him probably because I was never able to find anyone as passionate about all kinds of beauty in the world and create things with. Kind of a lonely yet fulfilled life at the same time.
So beautiful! I'd like to see how the smaller arrangements come out too. Thanks for the video! 🥀💐🤗
I have waited MANY months for the flower arranging lesson, and it was so worth the wait! OUTSTANDING, Rajiv, and THANK YOU!
Beautiful colors for Saturday morning. Thank you. 🌿🌱🌸🌷💚🦋🌤️
Ohhh snapdragons, i adore them. Also Lily of the Valley are a favorite of mine. Then, tropical tiger lilies. Haha. That would make for one odd flower arrangement,i know 😁, but those are my favorites. Tudor roses in pink are also a fav.
Oh my goodness, the way you explain/act out how purple feels next to different colours is spot on - I'm definitely doing that in my classroom. Sometimes words aren't enough to express the effect colours have on each other :D
Thank you! This inspired me at just the right time. I had to make 17 arrangements for my Aunt's "celebration of life" gathering. I would also like to say I enjoyed that the background music fades and disappears completely at times. It helps to really focus on the information and not distract from beauty of your voice.
I am so inspired with each video. I never thought I could attempt a floral arrangement with any semblance of confidence-- much less carry it out after watching one UA-cam video. Rajiv's thought process is so simple and that's why his results are always so beautiful-- whether it's cleaning the kitchen sink or wrapping a gift without tape or finding a yellowware doggy dish!
Every video of yours I've watched, I have exclaimed over how stunningly beautiful the floral arrangements were!! What skill you have! Very talented with your hands and all things creative
I love that even Rajiv's colour wheel is vintage and beautiful. 💚
I'm 65 and I've done the same thing as Rose Cottage Colleen. Perhaps that was the way it was done in our time. Rajiv brings beauty and joy to everything he does.
I have been waiting for this and I'm so glad to learn your process for flower arranging.I really like what you said about how your flower arrangement should look like they're almost growing out of the vase. I admit the only I knew before this video is that you should cut your stems on an angle.This is so educational and so thoughtful. I now feel equipped to go and make my own vase of visual poetry as your arrangements always are poetic. Also, whenever your green vase is on screen I can't stop starring at it.
I'm 73 and I've learned a lot from you.
Magnificent, Rajiv: an under-appreciated art, fleshed out by a dynamically present eye.
Your full basket of absurdly creative talents seems rather unfair to this average mortal... and yet, I adore you 🥰.
Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! The details, the information, the fun, the singing...... the arrangement...just all WONDERFUL!
Looks great! But don't cut tulips with scissors, you'll bruise the stem. better to cut with a sharp knive and cut the stem 45 angle. Take it from this Dutchie ;-)
A fun thing I learned about these Dutch flower paintings is that often the same painting would have flowers that bloom in different seasons in one vase. It is a bit easier to get flowers that bloom at different time now than it was then. Also, in some of those paintings, there are several different light sources in one, so the light hits different flowers from different sides, which creates this eerie feeling in the painting.
I’m not a flower gal but this video had me mesmerized! Love that Rajiv emphasized enjoying the beauty of the temporariness of the flowers and the arrangement. The melancholia, the drama. So good 😍
Lovely! If you've never taken an ikebana class, I highly recommend it. Offers some different approaches/philosophies on arrangement -- for example, in ikebana, you choose 1 perspective and orient all the flowers towards that view, rather than trying to design all sides.
Dear Rajiv, among your other talents, you are also an excellent teacher. You care for people ( you have love in your heart). 🙏☀️🐦
Thank you, buy a few more flowers Rajiv xxx
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Very beautiful and vibrant arrangement!! Good job!!!
Absolutely splendid! I love making flower arrangements. It’s a bit of luxury for me. This was probably my favorite video you’ve done so far! ❤💐🌺🥀
I think I have to agree!! #bestest
I don't have much extra discretionary funds, but I will spend for fresh flowers. To me they are a necessity as much as food.
Waited for this video for so long! Now rewatching.. because the first time I watched it I FELL ASLEEP!! Don’t take that badly, I’m a nurse and years ago one of my co workers used to fall asleep EVERY NIGHT when I was talking to her. I said I must be boring, she said No, your voice is so soothing, I can’t help it. Which, I think must be a compliment for a nurse. It means people feel soothed and relaxed and in good hands with me. And you, my friend, have EXACTLY that same vibe.
You are the first person I've ever met who can pronounce anemone correctly! Absolutely EVERYONE say anenome..... I'm so happy!
Just started putting fresh flowers in my apartment so this is very exciting! Thank you!
Your arrangements are breathtaking. I’ve noticed them around your home in other videos. Thanks again, Rajiv. ♥️❤️♥️
I asked for this and got it! I’m so grateful!! Can’t wait!
I've always been a "stick a bunch of flowers bunch in a vase" sort of flower arranger, but you've inspired me to think a little--no, a lot!--more deeply about how to make an arrangement that's beautifully alive. I'm making plans to go back to the Legion of Honor museum in SF to really LOOK at the Dutch still life paintings.
After seeing 42 minutes of this video, I am clearly in love with the art of this arrangement and the amount of thought that is being put to each flower
A beautiful floral arrangement to go with the informative tutorial.
One of my friends is a floral designer and I saw her thread some coated wire through her ranunculus stems to support them and I thought it was so smart! I love the rhythm and motion in your arrangement! Man I love anemone.
What a beautiful way to wake up!
Rajiv you ate a wonder, I don't even bother watching TV some evenings, I just watch your life/ living. ❤
Finally! The video everyone was waiting for!! Thank you Rajiv, thank you!! Blessings!!🙏👏💐❤️🙏
Utterly charming...
This was magical. Food for the soul magical. You are one talented human being, Rajiv! Can't wait to make my own arrangement using grown from seeds wildflowers (haven't bloomed yet). Thank you!
Love that your channel is growing fast 🔥
Love flowers, never thought about the colors that complement each other, is so beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
Inspiring as always. Can’t wait to try my own now. You always make me look at the “simple” things in a new way. As art. And with this, like a painting, it makes so much more sense this way. Intentional. Thank you.
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I love buying flowers and arranging. Even when i take a bouquet for someone, i choose flowers and make the bouquet rather than buying a premade one. I don’t know why i do this or why I started but i love it. Love listening to your thought process ❤
"Give Me The Roses While I Live"....one of my favorite songs by The Carter Family
I love arranging flowers in that way so it looks natural like in a garden or field. I didn't know that it was a Dutch style of arranging flowers. Beautifully done ❤
Simply beautiful
A work of art created by a true artist. You've opened up a whole new approach to flower arranging for me, Rajiv.
I so much locked foward watching this video. I love your videos. I cherish the Joy of being at home and taking care of it, I do a lot of things by hand too. Thank you Rajiv for sharing with us all your great ideas.
I would have never known so many flowers could go in a smaller vase. Really beautiful.
Georgeous and breathtaking
thanks to this video i've taken up flower arranging for myself. my basement suite is too dark to successfully keep plants alive (plus i can't be bothered) but having flowers in my space regularly has been so nice. thanks rajiv, you're really inspired me to enjoy and romanticize the little things.
As I am watching this, I had a flashback to watching Martha Stewart teach the same technique almost 30 years ago. It all became so apparent why I love your channel so much.
So glad you left room for the mirror & it's own drama😊❤
I wish i had a friend like Rajiv.
I found myself intensely watching every step of the process. It was fascinating. Thank you.
I love that you take such care with everything you do. You are a modern day Renaissance man
Thank you for this video, Rajiv! I have been hoping you would do one on how you do your beautiful arrangements. You describe exquitely. Nothing is left unexplained. You are a treasure!👍👍👍
So much excitement and drama with the purple tulips! I always notice your arrangements and love flowers so I truly appreciate this. Keep ‘em coming!
Love it! I am happy you chose only a few colors, it makes it more easy to focus on the movement and drama of the arrangement. Everything you do Rajiv is superb!❤
you know what would be even more secure as you work? Floral foam. I never thought of chicken wire! good idea.
Also buy floral wire, its green and very fine gage. wrapping it around the stems can reinforce it if you dont like the droop too droopy or you can even wire 3 sprigs together and work in sectional clumps for those who are overwhelmed with the arrangement part. make small controlled bunches, wire and then insert in your base.❤
Rajiv is a new kind of meditation for me 😁 Thanks so much for making this world slow down a bit and shine ✨
Though I am a bit young but every time I see your videos, I wish you were my son❤God bless you
Beautiful! From my favorite renaissance man! Thank you so much for this wonderful video.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for explaining your process! I am amazed at the restraint and exuberance of the final bouquet! 🎉
Watching you is like meditation for me. I appreciate you so much.
This is one of the most beautiful, relaxing and Full of knowledge video that I have seen in a long long time. I am absolutely in love with you arrangement and your work
Started watching one video now I am hooked never seen such a great young person with so many talents 👏 🙌 👍 keep up the good work you inspired me to better myself ❤from 🇦🇺
Oh Rajiv, you’ve taught me to do things beautifully, gently and well.
Your arrangement is absolutely beautiful Rajiv. I have learnt so many things from this one video on how to arrange flowers. It just makes sense when you do it this way. Love the content on your channel, each and every one is so informative and interesting to watch. Needless to say when your video pops up I cannot wait to finish what I am doing to watch it. Thank you stay blessed and take care .❤
I use distilled water and a splash or two of hydrogen peroxide for the water for my cut flowers. It's a game changer for how long the flowers last - like an extra week! I add more or change it every 3 days or so. Daisy species flowers seem to last the longest. Beautiful video!
An idea, put it on a lazy Susan so that it is easy to twirl
In some of the final seconds, it looks like one of the four parrot tulips was removed, leaving a much more graceful and dramatic line with the other three tulips. That was keen editing.
I even tweaked it further the next day...that's what often happens. It takes some time to really see the form, you keep editing as you see the need.
I have found my tribe in this channel! Every video is making my heart sing❤ Thank you Rajiv
Thanks for watching, Ana.
A wonderful moment of relaxation with Rajiv