Blooms of the week – On My Hand
If you know of me and my business, you’d know that I’m obsessed with Autumn. I think it’s because it’s a season we florists don’t get to utilise that much. Blame it on the weather.
If you know of me and my business, you’d know that I’m obsessed with Autumn. I think it’s because it’s a season we florists don’t get to utilise that much. Blame it on the weather.
I love the nuances of garden and outdoor grown flowers. Their subtle colour differences, tones and individual shape sing out above the very ordered more commercial grown flowers.
I wanted to create a simple bouquet only using a few flowers. Limonium is such an underrated flower, and a great modern substitute for gypsophila. It’s inexpensive, looks great en masse and can work with pastel colours well.
When we were first approached to be involved with Kai and Lisanne’s wedding we fell in love with their adventurous spirit and wanted to create something which reflected this.
Oh Autumn, I love you. I feel I always want to match the golden light and changing leaves by bringing in orange hues.
Being the texture junkie that I am I thoroughly enjoyed sourcing the ‘ingredients’ for this bouquet, most of which were local.
My most common request this season has been for pastels, and for this bouquet I couldn’t help adding a summery pop of colour. I typically use non-commercial foliage sourced from my garden, and a few favourite foraging spots. Here I’ve used olive, and one of my favourites – lacebark – which is a New Zealand native … Read more
Yellow makes people smile! I think it reminds them of sunshine and happiness, but strangely it’s a colour I never usually consider when selecting my flowers… For whatever reason, this week I threw out my misgivings towards the yellow and created this lovely big golden handful of sunshine.
My favourite time of year for hydrangeas is when summer’s ending and the season begins its change to autumn. Gone are the bright hues of blue, white and pink, to be replaced by various shades – lilac, dusky pink, cerulean and boysenberry.
Playing in my studio one afternoon creating strictly-this-palette-only-thanks wedding bouquets, I felt compelled to put together something unusual and bright.
Nothing says sweet decadence like a table set with a delicious confection of cakes and flowers.
This time we’ve combined soft and strong elements with delicate blush tones to create a lush, boho and ‘fresh from the garden’ feel.