Speaking the Unmentionable in Filler Flowers
Baby’s Breath is a filler flower that I hesitate to mention to customers. Just hearing the name can produce a very strong negative reaction. One self-proclaimed “flower snob” that I spoke with recently said she would never consider using something as boring and passé...
DIY Wedding Flowers Primer from Meg
Clearly the most structured, well thought out primer our-diy-well-dit-wedding-flowers on doing your own wedding flowers posted by our friend Meg over at www.Apracticalwedding.com
The Non-Wedding Party: Flowers for Special Guests
It’s hard enough to decide on the main wedding party flowers – bouquets for the bride and her maids, boutonnieres for the groom and ushers. And then there are other non-wedding-party guests to include… fathers, mothers, grandmothers and the like. But you don’t know...
Helping Mother Nature’s Wedding Flowers
Despite the seemingly endless ranges of hue and texture that Mother Nature makes available in fresh flowers, sometimes you can’t find just the right shade of blossom that you have in your head for your wedding flowers. Maybe your wedding falls in the wrong season for...
New Fall Flowers
The last two cool evenings here in the Northeast remind me that fall is almost here. Soon we’ll smell wood smoke in the air and be decorating our front porches with brightly colored chrysanthemums, Indian corn, cornstalks, and pumpkins. While I’ll be delighting in the...
Great Decorating Ideas from Pottery Barn
While my passion for flowers encourages me to create new, original arrangements, the practical me can’t help but appreciate great ideas in catalogs and magazines. The floral arrangements in the latest Pottery Barn Catalog party planning section are downright inspiring...
From Russia with Love?
In the Northeast, we enjoy four distinct seasons. I try to take in the individual beauty of each season, and to fully appreciate the wonderful changes happening around me. I find that I dress, decorate, and even cook seasonally. Certain flowers call out to me at...
Really Wild Flowers
Our family owns a vacation home in the Catskill Mountains. We love our summer treks to “The Cabin”, where we all enjoy the blissful peace and solitude found in this place. While some of us enjoy swimming, fishing, and catching snakes (especially our son!), I...
The Peony Alternative
So you are getting married in September and have decided you are having peonies on all the tables and for your bridal bouquet - completely without the consent of the peonies... a slight problem as recently discussed in Pursuing the Peony. But panic not - for there is...
An Elegant Bride’s Bouquet from the Flower God
We are proud to announce that we now feature over 75 how-to videos from The Flowergod! The Flowergod is well-known in the online community for his instructional DIY videos. Here's one of our favorites - The Elegant Bride's Bouquet: View More DIY Floral Design Videos...
Going Green
Every day we help customers plan flowers for weddings, parties, and business functions. They usually have a color theme and thoughts about the primary flowers in their arrangements. At that point, they often get stuck and aren’t sure what to order next. I often...
More About Color in Fresh Flower Bouquets and Arrangements
We had a post not too long ago about “Hue”, which is what most of us mean when we say “color”: red, blue, purple, yellow, etc. (Have a look at the Blooms By The Box Flower Color Wheel!) You can combine different colors to really swing the mood of your arrangements...
The Gladiolus makes a Comeback
I was recently in a discount cosmetics store with my 15 year old daughter. We purchased a number of things including an old fragrance that was one of my grandmother’s (and probably yours) favorites. The saleslady looked at us in a funny way and asked for whom were we...
Very Cool Color Tool For Flower Arranging!
OK, this really wasn't meant for flowers. But it's fun...if you like this sort of thing. 🙂 (I do!) Found this really cool toy on WebsiteTips.com. Clearly, meant for web work (!). But I do that too, and really, at the end of the day, a palette's-a-palette's... right?...
Handling Spiders
When I used to think of Spider Mums, I always used to think of my Mom’s 1961 wedding bouquet. It looked pretty, but sort of “dated”, and caused me to never once use Spider Mums in any flower arrangements! While I was walking recently through the floral department at...