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green elegance

Back from my SF trip and looking forward to showing you lots of pics next week! I realized I havent shown you any floral pics in a while so lined this up...

This was from a corporate holiday party we did in December which was hosted at a private residence. I love the elegance and modernity of white and green. We did a large showy arrangement and several shorter ones. Here we have Avalanche and Limbo roses, pom-pom mums, white tulips, green bud hydrangea, leucadendron, alstromeria, green dogwood, seeded eucalyptus, nandina foliage, ranunculas, stock, and lady apples.

a little romance

Some more pics taken by Lisa Warninger. I love how these turned out - the top one really captured the mood of this bouquet. These are from some orders from late November. I love the mix of pinks and burgundy with greens. Here we used blushing hydrangea, thistle, Rosita Vendela, Prima Donna, and Tomango roses, yarrow, nandina leaves, peach hypericum, and the season's last geranium.

berry tones

These bouquets are from a wedding a month ago. The couple got married in a beautiful vineyard. It was a really inspiring project as the bride had eclectic taste and really liked unusuual combinations. I love the mood created by these bouquets - sultry and romantic but earthy at the same time.

The bride's bouquet (top 2 pics) consisted of Supergreen and Champagne roses, burgundy callas, peach hypericum berries, seeded eucalyptus, oregano, kangaroo paw, leutamyrtis leaves, millet, and scabiosa pods and is accented with blushing blackberries and gorgeous begonia leaves.

the bridesmaids bouquets feature burgundy dahlias instead of callas.

bold dahlias

A tall arrangement last week for a new weekly client. this one has giant burgundy dahlias, Autumn Joy Sedum, viburnum berries, green snowberries,  crabapples, and toad lillies.

fruitful

I love this time of year...these are the things that allows me to not mourn the loss of summer. 

The abundant apples, pumpkins, persimmons and fall leaves. A gorgeous time of year here in Portland. This week we had the good fortune of getting some green persimmons at the market and I did a large arrangement in our front window with a beautiful Alex Marshall vase. There are the persimmons, crabapple branches, ninebark foliage, and moss clusters.

peachy keen

Just thought I would catch you all up on some weddings we did this season. This was one at a secluded botanical garden so the couple wanted something simple to compliment the abundant greenery and plant life surrounding them on their wedding. The bride's bouquet consisted of Peach Avalanche, Prima Donna, Metallina, and Vendella roses with green berzellia and a collar of fresh geranium. The bridesmaids bouquets (bottom pic) had Limbo and Vendella roses, green berzellia, white wax flower and geranium.

meadowy

OK, people - who's freaking out that it's September already???? I get a little panicky thinking about the long winter ahead...just a few more days of summer, please? Thank goodness we have some of these sweet and summery flowers to get us through! This is a hand-tied bouquet at the shop. We have been doing these regularly so customers can just pick something up quickly. We all love designing them - they are so fresh and spontaneous. This one feels very loose and meadowy and takes me away somewhere - maybe the south of France? It includes pale yellow Alexandra roses, straw flower, oregano, mint, artemisia, ladies mantle, and hypericum

hand-tied

We have been having so much fun doing little hand-tied bouquets for the shop - ones that are fast and easy for customers to pick up. This one has pinky dahlias, berzellia, bee balm, Ambiance roses, coral hypericum berries, love-n-a-mist, and smoke bush (that feathery stuff).

a little cheer

Here are some arrangements I did for a baby shower a few weeks back - it was a garden party.

Cheerful brights of fuchsia, watermelon, orange, and yellow in lush combinations.

Dahlias, billy buttons, asclepias, peach hypericum berries, bee balm, cockscomb, and Moscow and Milano roses.

city limits or bust

Yesterday was novel day. For the first time in my history as a floral designer, someone else delivered the flowers. OK, so I practically hugged the driver, and then my delivery rep...

Kind of embarrassing but it really was fun having that part taken care of. I do love seeing people's reactions and chatting in person and that I will miss. But having 2 more hours in the day to design and greet customers will be fab! So here are this weeks orders - warm berry tones (with the shop as backdrop).

An eclectic mix of Naranja and Spanish Dancer roses, plum asclepias, peach stock, allium, and love-in-a-mist - feels like Summer!