Easter Tablescapes
Do you have your bunny for your Easter tablescape?
Floral Arrangements Using Lilies
A very interesting approach using lilies and scafolding is here. The site has step-by-step instructions for making the arrangment. This would be a great Easter centerpiece.
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March 27, 2007
Floral Arrangements With Feathers for Weddings
Why stick to boring old flowers for the big day. Feathers make a lively addition to arrangements for your wedding. Here is an example of something to avoid in using feathers in a table centerpiece:
But in a wedding bouguet, consider this beautiful peacock feather bouquet:
March 21, 2007
Ivy Centerpieces
Centerpieces with generous helpings of ivy are simple, elegant, and inexpensive. It comes in a variety of leaf shape, size and color matching almost any decor. Perfect for tablescapes, here are a couple of nice examples.
March 18, 2007
Wedding Tablescapes
You see the pictures in every wedding book: artistry, passion striking colors, rich textures, and lingering scents. However a truly inspired design combine the elements of the event with relatively simple designs to make the experience extraordinary.
For my money the designer Michael Tavano illustrates the perfect balance of flowers and objects into great wedding tablescapes. His website says his “tablescapes” enjoy an easy repartee with his guests by showing them how they can, in his words, “escape to the table.”
In the table carrying favors below, the dendrobium orchids as simply laid on dinnerware, and a simple bouquet of white tulips sprouts from a simple square vase. The center of attention is, rightly placed on the pile of gifts bursting from the table.
A lesser designer would have arrangements competing for attention with the gorgeous candlesticks and other items. How much worse it is to have altar arrangements competing for attention with the bride. Whats more, a style like this can be “do it yourself” after a little consultation and supply of flowers.
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March 16, 2007
Secret Flower Service
Ever wonder how flowers are prepared and delivered?
At the Secret Flower Garden your order is studied until we are sure we understand the message and emotion you want to convey. Then the best possible flowers for your arrangement are chosen and gently picked from our secret garden with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.
To the sound of soothing classical music, designers prepare and adjust your flowers, using a secret solution to ensure they remain in the best possible condition after delivery. Our design specialist then lights a candle and a hush falls over the room as the arrangment is inspected for value, style and message accuracy.
We all had a wonderful celebration as the whole party marches down Union Street to deliver your arrangment into its waiting limo. The entire street waves ‘Bon Voyage!’ to your arangement as it glides off, on its way to your chosen recipient, on the assigned day of delivery.
I hope you had a wonderful time selecting an arrangement by the Secret Flower Garden. We sure enjoyed making it happen. Your picture is on our wall as “Customer of the Year”. We’re all exhausted but can’t wait for you to come back to The Secret Flower Garden!!
March 9, 2007
Patioscapes
Patioscapes are arrangements of plants, pots and other materials into an integrated design on a small outside area such as a patio. These can be formal or informal, have a range of themes such as desert or rainforest, and be quite low maintainence.
A good way to start designing is with a photograph of an existing landscape such as the rainforest below. Then extract out the main elements of interest. For example:
1. the ferns rising up in levels to the wall,
2. a relatively large elevated trough supported perhaps by pots and containing other plants, such as orchids,
3. a small shaded niche containing a small water feature and sheet moss.
These materials are easy to obtain, hardy and relatively inexpensive, and the composition is practical. They are essentially a type of landscape hydroponics. For more information on hydroponic gardening Click Here!
March 6, 2007
South African Floral Traditions
Having looked into the floral traditions of some regions such as Costa Rica and Carribean before so I thought I would look at another area. South Africa has a huge flora used in arrangements, and I have written before about the beautiful Disa Orchid. One outstanding flower is the Gerbra Daisy.
Here, Floral Artist, Mary Taylor gives you step by step instructions for designing a horizontal table design from South Africa, using readily available flowers reflecting the flora and traditions of the area.
Beautiful Tablescapes
What are the most beautiful tablescapes you have seen? We are open to suggestions. The ingredients of a beautiful tablescape are style, and flowers, with a dash of color. For example:
Two of my favourite gallery sites are below.
A gallery of beautiful resort tablescapes are here.
Examples of Michael Tavano’s tablescapes are here.
March 3, 2007
Flower Arrangement
I was thinking about the difference between a flower arrangement and a bunch of flowers. Apart from the obvious difference that a bunch bought in a supermarket would cost $15 say, and an arrangement possibly using the same number of flowers would cost $45, or $85 or more. Something about an arrangement makes you go WOW, while a supermarket bunch is simply color and smell.
The first difference is in the technical aspects of arrangement: symmetry, unity, and contrast. In an arrangement all the elements are linked to each other with subtle ties of pleasing color combinations, making geometric shapes of elegant proportions, yet exciting with textural and color contrasts. These technical features are the first words that say ‘this is arranged’.
Second, an arrangement communicates appropriately for the occasion. For example, a romantic arrangement will be different to a collegial gift; a corporate arrangement suitable for an office foyer is very different to a funeral spray. Communicating with flowers entails the types of flowers but also certain stereotypical, cultural forms. For example, a funeral spray is placed or draped in certain traditional ways. Valentine roses are typically arranged spherically with babies’ breath filler.
Thirdly, each arrangement is different, entailing certain creativity on the part of the florist. I have had a situation where different people sent the same arrangement selected from a web site to the same person. What a disaster if both arrangements were exactly the same!
With this in mind, the good florist interprets in their own way the message in an order to provide an arrangement that communicates the feeling the sender wishes to convey. A good florist will spend time establishing exactly the feelings the customer wishes an arrangement to convey.
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