Michigan wedding and event flowers
Posted in photo shoots on Aug 31st, 2009
The same day I set up the smoke bush centerpiece at the Flint Farmers Market I put together a little brown, green and yellow vignette. The bouquet was pretty funky and fun with chocolate cosmos, chocolate cymbidiums, astilbe, yellow gloriosa lilies, alchemilla, and montbretia pods.
Here is the matching boutonniere.
I made all the tablecloths for […]
Posted in photo shoots on Aug 31st, 2009
A few weeks ago my friend (and neighbor) Elizabeth called. She had some seriously overgrown smoke bush in her yard. Her problem was my dream come true! I drove over with three buckets of water and went to work.
I took the clippings, along with my table setup down to the Flint Farmers […]
Posted in photo shoots on Aug 11th, 2009
Last week, I whipped up a sample bouquet and centerpiece. Shown below is the in-studio photo. The bouquet and centerpiece contained tweedia, succulents, zinnias, alchemilla, geranium, lisianthus, freesia and craspedia.
After photographing the pair in my studio I decided that they needed to be displayed in their own vignette. I prowled downtown Flint for […]
Posted in photo shoots on Jul 15th, 2009
Last week, while I was picking up flowers for a wedding at the Detroit Golf Club, I had an urge to pick up a few flowers for myself. I grabbed chocolate cymbidium orchids, Ilse spray roses, Cameo mini callas, berzelia, “Pisa” leucadendron, and seeded eucalyptus. On Sunday I finally had a chance to […]
Posted in photo shoots on Apr 8th, 2009
Great foliage is an underutilized resource in the cut flower world. Maybe I feel this way because my favorite color is green, or because I am a sucker for textural items, but I get just as excited about interesting foliage as I do for an unusual flower. Silver tree (Leucadendron argenteum) is one […]