LATE APRIL IKEBANA WITH VINCA AND ROSE

I am beginning to think that I should really call these floral arrangements "Amerikebana" because I still have a decidedly American sensibility about flower arrangement.  But I think I have absorbed much of true Kozan school ikebana.  I used the hearty pink camelia as the central focus of this piece, with the creeping vinca and its wonderful purple ridged with white flowers and two unopened climbing rose buds.  The roses will open in a day or two and the vinca vine will lengthen, too.