Baby Blue

The celebration was the Christening of a baby boy who also happens to have big beautiful blue eyes.

Table centrepieces (chrysanthemums, alstroemeria, mini carnations, commercial mums and lisianthus)

Cube vase arrangement with commercial mums, lisianthus and mini calla lilies

Large vase arrangement with commercial mums, dyed chrysanthemums, mini carnations, alstroemeria, lisianthus and various greens

Special Birthday's

The month of May contained various floral projects including a few one-of-a-kind birthday arrangements.

For an orchid lover....white dendrobium orchids, lush roses and red hypericum berries

Spring blooms for someone who was celebrating a milestone birthday. Tulips, fragrant hyacinths and delicate lisianthus, with a bed of pom chrysanthemums

Large basket of blooms for someone whose favourite flowers are daisies and sunflowers. Mini sunflowers, gerbera daisies, carnations, green spider/Fuji mums and forsythia branches

 

Hand-tied Bouquets

Flower bouquets are by far the most popular type of flower arrangement in most flower shops. Bouquets are available in various sizes and can be kept to just flowers and greens or you can get one custom made with a variety of embellishments. Here are a few examples:

Chicken wire and midollino sticks are used to create an armature base. A mixture of hydrangeas, calla lilies, roses and alstroemeria flowers. Greens include, rolled aspidistra leaves wrapped with metalic wire and lily grass. Flat metallic wire was used to further accessorize.

This armature bouquet utilizes fresh curly willow branches for its base. Designed with iris, chrysanthemum, asiac lilies, alstroemeria, silver dollar eucalyptus and asparagus plumosa fern.

European hand-tied bouquet with twenty beautiful roses and hypericum berries.  Finished with a rolled aspidistra collar.

Spring Flowers

I love to see bunches of cut tulips for sale in late February at my local flower shops as it is a sign that spring is near.  Spring garden blooms bring us, tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, forsythia and pussy willow to name a few. Here are some spring inspired designs.

Light pink tulips, lisianthus, novelty chrysanthemums, purple hyacinth and fresh curly willow

Pussy willow branches, yellow tulips, hydrangea, mini gerbera and solidago

Liatris, iris, forsythia, fragrant freesia and daffodils (narcissus)

Viburnum, alstroemeria, novelty chrysanthemum, mini gerbera and green trick dianthus

Pretty Pastels

This past weekend, I created some arrangements for an event held at Mark McEwan's Fabbrica restaurant in Don Mills.  The client wanted the arrangements to be in pastel colours as the celebration was in honour of a young child.

These were the centre pieces for the dinner table. (Hydrangea, mini gerbera, freesia, off white spray roses, sorbonne lilies, yellow carnations, small green chrysanthemum, green hypericum berries and variegated pittosporum.

These taller arrangements complemented the centre pieces on the display tables.
(Carnations, snapdragon, gerbera, sorbonne lilies, spray roses, small green chrysanthemum, galpinii leucadendron, freesia and a variety of greens.)