Feeling Spring with Tulips & Ranunculus
Do you love spring as much as I do?
The tulips and butterfly ranunculus for last week’s floral subscribers were incredible! I also tried Sterling Range for the first time. The smell and itty bitty flowers were brilliant.
The textures and variations of each flower has me bowing to Mother Nature. So cool!
In the Studio
My go to vases are normally ceramic vases. Because -
I love the way the perfect ceramic vase gives an additional story or feeling to the floral arrangement
I use a lot of chicken wire and flower frogs for my floral designs to get the stems right where I want them. I don’t necessarily love the look of the chicken wire in clear vases.
So when deciding on a vase for this flower subscriber I was stumped. She hadn’t had a clear vase yet but I didn’t want to have the chicken wire showing through the glass. And then BAM like a shot of creative genius, I remembered I had left over curly willow branches in the cooler. I use curly willow as an armature for my hand bouquets so why not a natural structure in a vase?!.
I turned, twirled and bound the curly willow together to make a sustainable, visually pleasing structure.
Now writing this, I have another sustainable idea to use with a glass vase - but that will be for another time.
For the Garden
Last week, I started some seeds that we haven’t grown before. I usually pick 5 flowers each year that I test out to see if I fall in love with them and if they support our clients in style and emotion.
Campanula
Tweedia - getting some light blues into the mix
Dianthus
