BlB—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 22,1984
Keiko Smith wins at Lebanon Flower Show
BY SUZANNE KEENE
LEBANON - When Keiko Smith
left her home in Japan to move to
the United States 20 years ago, she
brought along flower arranging
skills that she had acquired from
her mother and through formal
schooling. The Best of Show award
she received at this year’s
Lebanon County Flower Show,
held last Wednesday and Thur
sday, attest to her considerable
skill in this art.
In Japan, Keiko said, she
learned to make an arrangement
and then give it a title to convey the
feeling or mood that it suggested
when it was completed. But here,
she has had to learn a new ap
proach to the art - an approach
which requires her interpret a title
in her floral designs.
While Keiko claims to be
somewhat inexperienced in this
aspect of flower arranging, she
certainly is not unsuccessful in her
attempts to convey a message with
flowers. Her Best of Show
arrangement, entered in the
“Love’s Old Sweet Song” class of
the Lebanon show, consisted of a
bouquet of yellow century lilies,
with mahonia as foliage. She in
corporated two split bamboo
circles into the arrangement to
communicate love.
“Love Ls a hug,” Keiko said,
forming her arms into a circle as
though she were hugging someone
near to her.
To express the song idea in
cluded in the class title, Keiko
placed an opened songbook beside
her arrangement.
While the lilies used in her
arrangement came from a local
greenhouse, Keiko grew the
mahonia in her own small yard
which contains very little grass.
Flowers dominate in Keiko's lawn,
creating a colorful scene for
motorists driving by her home on
Route 934 in Annville.
Keiko says she does not allow her
husband to mow what little grass
has managed to survive for fear
that he will destroy a new plant
that she is not yet aware of.
Keiko likes to spend time in her
garden, but sometimes finds it
difficult to make time in her busy
Lancaster Society 1
Nineteen members of Lancaster
Society 1 met recently at Camp
Hebron, Dauphin.
President Hazel Ulrich an
nounced that the state project is
“Making of any Item,”
you use needles, hooks' looms,
brushes, hammer and nails or
whatever you wish. She also an
nounced that State Farm Women’s
Day will be held on Oct. 14 at the
Farm and Home Center. Rod
Hershey will provide the evening
entertainment.
The society will again serve
Moravian sugar cake at the
Lancaster Co. Extension meeting
to be held on Oct. 11,12 and 13.
On Oct 6 and 7 the society will be
boiling apple butter at the Landis
Valley Farm Museum Harvest
Days. Homemade bread with
apple butter and schmierkase will
be on sale.
The society will be sponsoring a
bus trip to Longwood Gardens and
Hagley museum on Sept. 27.
Keiko Smith recently won Best of Show honors at the
Lebanon Flower Show with her arrangement of century lillies.
schedule. One day a week she
travels to Baltimore, Md. to attend
the Sogetsu School of Ikebana,
where she is trained in Japanese
flower arranging, an art she has
been tearing since she was 13 years
old. In Japan, Keiko explained,
every girl learns the fundamentals
of flower arranging.
To finance her way through
school, Keiko sells crafts and gives
lectures and demonstrations to
various groups in the area. She is
especially well-known for her
holiday decoration ideas and for
her work with dried flowers.
Where does Keiko get the ideas
that so many enjoy? The library.
“The library is the best place to
go,” Keiko claims, adding that she
is inspired by what she sees in
books. However, she continued,
QMomm I
Societies I
Anyone outside the society who is
interested in going should call Amy
Brubaker at 733-7425.
The group will participate in a
“table setting contest” at
Bareville Furniture on Nov. 1.
Mary Kurtz and Ann Landis will
set a table for the contest which
will be judged by customers. Top
prizes are $lOO, $2OO and $3OO.
Berks Society 9 held its Sep
tember meeting at the home of
Helen Oxenford, R 2 Douglassville.
The county convention is
planned for Oct. 6 at the Berks
County Ag Center.
The County hoedown will be held
on Oct. 13 in the 4-H Building.
Member Peggy Lewis provided
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she rarely takes an idea from a
book without changing it in some
way.
Coming up with an idea is the
most time-consuming part of
arranging flowers, Keiko ex
plained. The actual process of
executing the design takes con
siderably less time.
Keiko said she likes to work with
lumber, cutting it like sculpture to
include in her arrangements. Her
house, she says, is always clut
tered with her numerous projects
and things that other people call
junk, but which she considers
treasures.
She plans to enter next year’s
show, but can’t start on her idea
until the new theme is announced.
“I really like to participate in the
club,” she says.
Lancaster Society 22
Lancaster Society 22 met on
Sept. 11 at the home of Mary
Young. The group plans to have a
stand at the “Christmas in Oc
tober” program at the Farm and
Home Center.
Lydia Esh and her daughter
Susie told the group about the
Amish way of life and their
traditions. Their talk was followed
by a question and answer period.
The next meeting, which will be
a “Craft Day” will be on Oct. 9 at
9:30 a.m. at the home of Margaret
Lefever.
Lebanon Society 20
Lebanon Society 20 entertained
Society 18 at the Ono Fire Hall on
Sept. 10. The members and guests
introduced themselves and told an
amusing story about their school
days.
“Round Peg and the Squares”
entertained the groups with music
and songs. Games and refresh
ments rounded out the evening.
At a short business meeting,
members signed up for com
mittees. Members are reminded to
bring a pumpkin to the next
meeting at the home of Juliet
Wagner.
Berks Society 9
the entertainment by preparing a
few Early American dishes and
talking about the food that was
grown and eaten when white
people first came to America.
The next meeting will be held at
the home of Karen Schreier, R 2
Douglassville, for a Halloween
Party.
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