One of the American Rose Society (ARS) classes for rose arranging is “Design in the Oriental Manner.” If this is something you’d like to know a little more about then check out this ARS article,Moribana: An Arrangement “In the Oriental Manner”
Here’s a clip of the article:
My beginning started with a deep respect for and interest in Ikebana, the centuries old art of Japanese flower arrangement. Ikebana is the floral art form of Japan, first introduced and practiced by Buddhist monks when they brought Buddhism to Japan from China in the sixth century. The Japanese aristocracy would later adopt the practice and eventually influential and important schools of flower arrangement emerged. By the Fifteenth Century, Ikebana had become a genuine and disciplined art form…
…The ARS honors and recognizes Ikebana with “Arrangements in the Oriental Manner” as described and detailed in the ARS Guidelines for Arranging Rose Arrangements…
The complete article is a pdf file, so you can read it online and save the file to your computer.
If you want to give this style of arranging a shot in our Rose Show then this page will give you the location and show details. There are a lot of classes available, so let your imagination run with this. Here’s a .pdf map to the show. Here’s the Google map to the show.