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Arrangements may include poppies, ranunculus, peony, hyacinth, and helleborus. Specific flower and color requests welcome.
Place orders by February 10 for Valentine’s Delivery. Free delivery available in the Craftsbury, Greensboro, Albany area.
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Should we be talking about flowers for your wedding or party and should I mention garden roses (”Garden roses would be lovely…..”), and then mention them again (”How about garden roses….?”) it is only because I love them so much. You, of course, have full liberty to say you much prefer something else.
With that said, here are a few of my favorite things about these beauties……
1. Versatility. Garden roses are so cooperative; they mix beautifully with most other flowers but are stunning alone, and they are as comfortable in casual garden arrangements as they are graceful in formal bouquets and centerpieces.
2. Fragrance. Perhaps a poet could begin to capture their fragrance with words, but I am no poet…… If you were to imagine the sweetest natural fragrance possible and add a hint of lemon to this one, and a trace of vanilla to that one…..well, you might be close.
3. Color. Soft shades, rich shades, bi-colors, pastels and primaries, oh my! With new varieties developing all the time garden roses now come in a full range of beautiful hues. They are particularly useful as a transition between a couple or few colors.
4. Organics. Lucky for the environment and for us, we have found a garden rose farm that grows their roses organically. That’s right…..beautiful roses that are completely free of pesticides, herbicides and post-harvest treatments!
The roses above are Evelyn.
photo: Corey Hendrickson
Then jump in on Corey Hendrickson’s (www.hendricksonphotographyweddings.com) free engagement session contest at www.hpwcontest.com. Act fast as the winner is announced February 1!
Now that the new issue of La Bella Bride is out I can share with you these pictures of the tabletop that Carrie (at www.storiedevents.com) and I did for the magazine last July. Carrie did such a beautiful job with the whole design…..all I did was show up with flowers and a few cherry tomatoes.
There is a Little Story that goes with these photos…..
The night before the photo shoot I was in the flower shop arranging for the shoot when I found out a friend was dying. So much for caring about how the yellow peonies looked next to the peach garden roses…….try as I might, I could not focus, I could not stop crying. The bouquets were put together, and then taken apart. And then put together, and taken apart. And put together, and taken apart…..and put together, and…..
And then!!! in walked my sister and brother!!!!…..bearing hot food!! I sat down to eat and my sister starting playing with the bouquets. My brother simultaneously chatted, flipped through Martha Stewart Wedding magazines, and gave my sister across-the-room feedback on the bouquets. He is a true multi-tasker. Before long I was headed home, bouquets complete, stomach full.
These arrangements will always make me think How Lucky I Am To Have My Brothers and Sister and How Much I Miss Jan.
A true mish-mash of….yellow peonies, tulips, pansies, snapdragons, yarrow, dahlia, cherry tomatoes, garden rose, day lily, zinnia, craspedia, and begonia.
These flowers were for a 60th surprise birthday party last Saturday at the Stowehof Inn ( www.stowehofinn.com).
It was such a good day for a winter birthday…..it was crisp cold and sunny outside, the Inn was toasty warm, and the horse-drawn sleigh was giving rides. As a little birthday bonus, the muscari and hyacinth in these arrangements smelled like a little bit of Spring.
With hydrangea, muscari, hyacinth, tulip, wax flower, ranunculus, japanese rose, nerrine lily, and lysimachia.
Happy New Year! Is it too late to say that? It probably is, but I’m struggling to date things ‘10 instead of ‘09, so it still feels new to me.
I am settling back in after being in NYC all of December making and selling wreaths with my sister. Here are how things looked in Brooklyn on a Sunday morning in late December after eight inches of snow fell….
It has been strangely balmy here for mid-November. I’ve been spending days out in the woods and fields, along with my sister, collecting greens, pine cones, and berries. Soon the flower shop will become a little wreath and garland factory as we concoct for the holiday season.
These little woodland-inspired wreaths are some of our favorites. They include moss, vinca vine, princess pine, and boston fern.
The Vermont Vows Wedding Affair ( www.aweddingaffair.com) just took place at the Shelburne Coach Barn (www.shelburnefarms.org). All seemed to go off beautifully……with the exception of photos I took of our sweet heart display table.
One of these days I will ask a photographer friend to share tips on taking photos.
In the meantime I offer these fuzzy pink shots, with blush anemone, blush ranunuculus, garden rose, oak leaves, and chestnuts.
The Inn at Mountain View Farm happens to be one of my favorite wedding venues in all of Vermont. That said…….if I had to choose one place, and only one place, to be married in Vermont I think I would be overwhelmed…..and a little stumped. Especially if I were dealing with the sort of indecision that seems to be permeating my every move recently…. But that is another topic.
Lucky for all of you brides, my friend Carrie has started a website and blog highlighting wedding properties all over the Northeast. To see more head over to www.blog.storiedlocations.com
Usually when there is some of one, there is none of the other. But last week the stars aligned. I came home from cleaning up a wedding with vases full of ranunculus and vanda orchids. And there happened to be a few quiet days so I had time to find some good homes, including my own, for these really nice leftovers…..