sending kind thoughts - flowers for a friend

Here is an arrangement in pastel colors, snapdragons, ranunculus, hydrangea, lilac, flowering cherry and seeded eucaliptus. All wrapped and ready to go...

A dinner party

Yesterday was a perfect day to work with flowers and a busy one at that. These below were arrangements donated for a special French style evening of dining through the Art Council's benefit last year. Hyacinth, lilac, dusty lavender spray roses, frayed red parrot tulips, French double lilac, seeded eucaliptus...it looked lovely on the dinner table atop a hadnstitched tablecloth.

this was the coffee table piece, in complement to the centerpiece yet different and with its own sensibility; featuring burnt orange spray roses, white hydrangea and green viburnum, plus charming greenish orange inside perfectly round parrot tulips.Gentle and delicate plum blossoms don't really show on the photo, but they were wonderful to work with. This arrangement for the bar has hybrid translucent purple hydrangea, french parrot tulips, lilac, oncidium orchids and a touch of French lilac to tie it all together. Black river stone at the bottom of one of my favorite vases grounds nicely such a top-loaded arrangement in a tapered vase.

Floral design class

We had a lovely class on a beautiful Saturday, featuring hybrid Holland hydrangea in mauve and violet, three different colors of snapdragons, spray roses, ranunculi in bold colors, parrot and frayed tulips, deep raspberry color dendrobium and yellow oncidium orchids, plum blossoms, viburnum and seeded eucaliptus. 

The ladies opted for a presentation this time, which turned out very nice for me - it is easy to talk about design as you are working with an arrangement, explaining reasons for choices and illustrating different trics and techniques. Before everyone left, we talked about color combinations and personal preferences and sensibilities and everyone took home a bouquet.