The Ōhara school was founded by Ōhara Unshin in 1895. Ōhara
arrangements are made in a landscape format on open dishes or
plates, rather than in tall, thin vases. This style has become
known as moribana (‘piled-up flowers’). Worldwide there
are over one million students of the Ōhara school.
This arrangement contains dried manzanita
branches, phalaenopsis (a type of orchid) and euonymus.
The demostrator was Angela Sawano: "Whenever I walk through
the countryside or forest I am always looking up at the unusual
shapes of branches imagining how I would use them in an ikebana
arrangement. My favourite summer flowers are morning glory,
cockscomb, and lilies and lovely hosta leaves to place amongst
them."