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 a [...]
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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 combine my [...]
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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 of those [...]
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