Tropical Valentine

Here's a little tropical twist for a Valentine's bouquet. Note the little crystal hearts tucked into the mini pineapples! Other flowers include white dendrobium orchids, pink anthurium and ti leaves.

Wholesale Flower Market

Went to the flower market this morning, otherwise known as Halls Atlanta Wholesale. The photo above shows just one corner of the cooler. The folks at Halls are great. They are always very helpful and they seem to enjoy their jobs.

One event I have this weekend is a 60th birthday party at Wahoo restaurant in Decatur. I'm doing six small arrangements for two long tables. I picked up some gorgeous blue hydrangeas (requested by the customer), purple tulips from Holland, green hypericum berries, some cool purpley/green kale and dark green tree fern. I'll swirl some green spanish moss inside the round, glass vases for a very earthy/gardeny feel.

Be Mine

Valentine's Day is just around the corner. Here's an arrangement that's very popular. A giant glass urn of candy hearts and beautiful stargazer lilies. The lily stems are inside of large water tubes so that you can read, eat and share the hearts! I like the orange ones the best.

Peony bridal bouquet

As I sit by the fire and work on proposals for all the brides getting married in 2009, many requests are for peony bouquets. Peonies certainly are exquisite! Here are a pair of photos of a gorgeous bouquet for a bride who married at the Four Seasons. Yuko was a beauty herself. (photos courtesy of White Rose Studios )

I have a neighbor who recently moved into a house and she inherited a gorgeous and plentiful peony garden. She was hosting a luncheon for her church and we cut the huge, hot pink blooms and arranged them in her own collection of family crystal and silver. They were stunning centerpieces and best of all - locally grown!

Weekly client delivery

One of my weekly clients is Siegel & Dolt dentistry. I provide a large arrangement for the reception area and a smaller one for the interior of the office. Here's a picture of the smaller one (I deleted the picture of the bigger one by accident! I have a new camera that I'm getting used to.)

Again, purple iris, yellow tulips, sea thistle and some lime spider mums which really pop with color. In a tall, square glass vase it is a very "architectural" design.

Get Well delivery

Here's a sweet little vase arrangement I did for a client whose friend was under the weather. In it are purple iris, yellow tulips, craspedia or 'billy balls' (the round yellow things), tree fern and a few butterfly accents. Flower fact: Tulips continue to grow once they are cut and placed in water. That is why they will seem to "reach" out of the arrangement!

A toasty fire

There is one thing in life that I really love - a nice warm crackling fire. We have a fireplace in the living room and there are days where a fire burns literally all day long. I love it. But in order to have fire, you need wood. And for us, we need lots of it.
David rented a wood splitter and we finally split the two giant oak trees that have been sitting in stumps and chunks in our backyard. Our neighbors had the trees removed a while ago and we were fortunate to get the wood from them.
So, the family spent the day splitting, carting and stacking. We have a ton of wood now which should last us through the rest of the winter season. I know I will be sore tomorrow!
One of my hopes for the future is to someday have a fireplace in the bedroom. Falling asleep next to a roaring fire - pure bliss if you ask me.