Kristin & Chris

This bride is a dear cousin of mine, the wedding was in late October, so I was not able to "hunt & gather" flowers from outside. However, the flowers turned out great and the bride was very happy with them. Her colors were eggplant and accented it with a lime green. However we also used roses in different shades of purple to catch the eye.

Tall centerpiece at the reception. She decided to cut costs by only having flowers on 1/3 of the tables and used candles and sticks with gems for the other 2/3. This arrangement consists of roses, lilies, orchids, bells of ireland, and various accent flowers.

The father of the brides boutonniere. A simple rose with wax flowers as accents.

The groomsman's boutonniere. Orchid, with a rose bud. A great way to tie in the purple. Because eggplant is generally difficult to match with flowers, utilizing shades of purple helps!

This is the arrangement used in the church. A big beautiful arrangement that mimics the centerpieces at the reception but on a much grander scale.

The bridesmaids bouquets all bunched up. The bride wanted the bridesmaids bouquets to be more white than purple and pink, and hers would be the opposite.

An up close shot of the brides bouquet. Lots of different textures and flowers. Roses, poms, orchids, wax flower, hypericum berries, and various accent foliage.

Placing the finishing touch on the bouquet.

Becky and Ben

This bride is a very simple girl, who wanted a wildflower look, with a minimal budget. So I utilized my resources and went looking outside. Above is the pew cone/ arrangement, I used shrub roses and russian sage in this simple.

For the reception the bride wanted a combination of tall centerpieces and low ones. Here are the low ones, cannot get much simpler or more beautiful than hydrangeas.

This is not a very good picture but it is one of two arrangements for the church. The vase consists of panicle hydrangeas, echinacea's, liatris (spikey purple flowers) queen anne's lace.

The arrangements on location.

Thanksgiving

Lemons... a fun way to cover up the mechanics.

Who needs foam when you have cranberries?

A playful pave design

Lots of texture

This is a centerpiece I did for a dinner party. I love using plants from around my house. So there is bleeding hearts, spiraea foliage and other perennials from around my house. Along with my very favorite peonies!

Wedding flowers

The following pictures are bouquets I did in my floral design class. We were learning different techniques, but were just handed the flowers and told to create.
This is a great way to get lots of texture, color and smells! This bouquet has tulips, stock, roses, lilies and then accent flowers.

A the classic red rose bouquet, there is just something so beautiful about this.

This is another colorful bouquet. Daisies, alstromeria, and stock.

Sweet Tango

So I just have to write about this, as it was the big hype in MN last year since I work at a nursery. The U of M only allowed certain people to have this apple. I expected it to be out of this world delicious. But I have to say, I have been switching between honeycrisp and sweet tango apples the past few days. I cannot tell a lick of difference. So...

My consensus = Sweet Tango is highly over-rated!! Save your money and just get honeycrisp.

Twist and Shout

I believe this is a trial block of plants that we are putting acid on, but they are a spectacular blue!!!
Even the foliage is amazing! Usually it is more reddish than eggplant.

Sympathy week

I used it as a door swag, but really its a non traditional funeral "swag"

loved the colors!!

again funeral wreath used as a door wreath. you cannot see the water dripping!

and as a centerpiece! it was just a little too depressing to photograph these funeral pieces looking like funeral pieces

i added the caramel colored hypericum berries as well!

centerpieces and fun stuff

loved this one, and great way to use lilies!

up close of the flowers

centerpiece, not my favorite one we have done but it turned out ok.

Framing & Zen

This week we worked on framing the arrangement, everything went in straight.

I think one of my favorite little pieces I have done so far. This was our zen project. She told us we could use 1 galax leaf, bear grass, curly willow, moss, and one gerbera daisy. My galax leaf was HUGE, so I decided it was kind of like a lily pad, and the loops of bear grass just seemed like they would be interesting, and the curly willow to balance it all out.

Asian themed vertical design, mine ended up to be very minimalistic compared to the others, but I liked it and doesn't need to be too fussy. The raffia and 3 bamboo pieces on the pot were my addition as well. Sometimes you just amaze your self! HA!

Wedding week part 2

a lovely corsage...

I realized I kind of enjoy making head wreaths! But it was only one so don't anyone get and ideas!

Week 3- Tropicals!

Birds of Paradise, orchids, and orange roses. Our tropical centerpiece.

A loop of bear grass

From another angle

The one sided tropical

Simple beauty

Week 2 of Flower School

Mixed flower bridal bouquet

Love these!

Red Rose bouquet

It was wedding week, so we also made corsages, and a head wreath. My goal is to get my hubby to put the head wreath on and take a pic!

Flower School Week 1 part 2

European Hand-tied up close

European hand tied

One sided triangle

Well I have realized the one sided triangle like the one above is definitely not my favorite! But a basic design skill that is used quite often. The european hand tied was actually quite fun! The goal is to have the bouquet stand on its own after you are done, which it did! yea!!

Flower School Week 1

Classic English design (Paul Mass Design)

A dozen red roses arranged

Simple Bud vase

This was my first week of flower school! I am really excited about it and so far I come home in a great mood! And after playing with flowers for 3 hrs who wouldn't be happy? They started us off pretty simple but I have already learned a lot!

Hydrangea Little Lime

This is one of my new favorite plants. Shorter, compact, loaded and I mean Loaded with flowers. And they have been blooming for at least a month, and now starting to turn a pink. I highly suggest this beauty!