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 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 6, 2007
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.
February 9, 2007
Tablescapes
What are tablescapes? Just a fancy word for centerpiece? These examples illustrate a tablescapes is more than a centerpiece, it is an integrated design for the whole tabletop.
Get the picture? Not clutter or a buffett. A good tablescape is a well thought out and creative design. If you think like an event planner, integrating the elements into a exciting vision appropriate to the event, it will work. And when you need arrangements for your great tablescapes, you know who to call, the friendly staff at Secret Flower Garden.
February 5, 2007
Tabletop Centerpieces for February
The Teleflora Uniquely Chic Bouquet is probably the most popular centerpiece desogn this February. This is rich design of orange asiatic lilies and roses with hot pink carnations and roses for a reasonable price.
Another beautiful design is the White Roses and Lilies. This and the above design are fragrant due to the lilies, and have a low profile suitable for a dinner table. Another benefit of these types of designs is they are long lasting. Because the blooms are pressed together they do not open so far and dry so quickly as a more open, larger arrangement. Good value all round.
Another design to ask about is the Secret Flower Garden signature design, composed of hydranga and roses in a tight low spherical design. Also suitable for tabletops and very long lasting, this design is even more economical that the above Teleflora designs. Ring us for a quote for the signature nosegay and delivery at 415 3461001 in the San Francisco city area.
January 29, 2007
Preserved Arrangements
The value of preserved arrangement is only beginning to be realized. Drying of flowers is an ancient preservation technique. They look like the fresh version and can often replace fresh arrangements in corporate environments. Someone who has made a success of this is Barbara Scott.
Flowers are dried by immersing each bloom in silica gel, a nontoxic, dried compound of sodium silicate and sulfuric acid that removes all moisture from the flowers without changing its natural shape. The bloom looks very similar to the original, and will not wilt, fade, or crumble provided it is not exposed to too much humidity or handling. The typical corporate headquarters is the perfect environment.
The key to satisfaction, as Scott hastens to explain to any new customer, is good air-conditioning. Placed in a hospitable, dry environment, one of her $400 to $1,400 arrangements will look fresh and beautiful for up to a year. Sometimes a bit too fresh, Scott notes with a laugh:”Once in a while a client will forget to tell her housekeeper that an arrangement is preserved. It gets watered, and that’s the end of it.”
January 28, 2007
Valentine Tablescapes
In keeping with contemporary trends in floral arangements, we are offering Valentine’s Day Tablescapes. A tablescape is like a centerpiece, familiar from Thanksgiving or Christmas, with addional landscape design elements. Teleflora offers a simple tablescape for Valentine’s Day here with roses and ivy.
Simply Roses - by The Secret Flower Garden
A contemporary presentation of red roses that seemingly grow out of the surrounding grass and ivy. It’s simply the right choice for that special someone.
The standard version has six red roses, grass and ivy delivered in a simple square dish. Deluxe and premium versions have more roses, are larger with candles.
Ideal for that special dinner on Valentine’s evening!
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