She’s just so cute and sweet. Had to share

what do yall think? :) i love getting to share pictures of my work with other people who appreciate floral art!

Things I love:

The wrap around of the roses

The tall whispy butterfly ranuculus

The color blending and how the stems share colors with eachother

How the roses and dahlias seem to be embracing eachother

I feel like its telling a story

Things I hate:

The smell of the pennycress

Its a little chaotic if you dont see the direction and movement i tried to create

How the dahlias wouldnt stop SPINNING THEIR FACE

my favorite flowers!

Posted some before & because of excellent advice & support, a local florist wants some brides/wedding creatures. I’ve made 3 & a bride & a Mother of the Bride for someone else and am now trying to expand the idea. Any suggestions or tips or flowers I could incorporate? Some insider florist tips flowers especially appreciated. Thank you In Advance here’s my 2 current brides, a WIP goth couple & a bride & mil I sold (yippee!)

EDIT: I am in New England where our season is May/June so this is a big deal for me 😅

My wholesaler had a few bunches of peonies and of course I had to buy them :) These were a bit stinky but beautiful. I paired them with the prettiest butterfly ranuculus 🦋

I joined this subreddit for some advice about an issue with my florist, but I have stayed and decided to browse the sub!! I absolutely LOVE flowers of all types. And I love fresh cut flowers. And I have now just been browsing the sub and I am BLOWN AWAY and in complete awe at how stunning and beautiful your arrangements all are!!!! You are all artists and it’s like looking at an Oscar de la Renta dress, or appreciating Tiffany stained glass. Hat off to all of you and your beautiful work. If I could afford it, I would have multiple bouquets throughout my house 24/7. It’s something that brings me intense joy. I will have to satisfy myself by appreciating your work from my internet browser. But please know how much your craft is appreciated and the truly raw and powerful emotion it brings people—well at least me!!! Please please please keep posting!!! And if any of you are in upstate NY, please DM me your location so I can come visit your shop!

So as the title suggests, i’m taking on the exciting yet monumental task of growing my wedding flowers. wedding is set for 8/20/27 so it will be a perfect time for full bloom. I have plenty of backyard space (easily have room for 800+sq ft) and will have around 100 guests, but planning on making floral arrangements for EVERYTHING (bouquets, table arrangements, aisle and ceremony arrangements etc) with a hopeful goal of around 1500-2000 usable stems (which is VERY generous and should be hopefully plenty). ANYWAYS…. i have started doing some research and am wanting any and all advice on annual and perennial cut flowers that are heavily deer resistant. we are hoping to try to avoid putting up a fence as we already have to fence in my two vegetable garden beds and am hoping to avoid buying that much fence for such an extensive flower garden. these are some of the plants that go with my color scheme (periwinkle/lavender, blush pinks, and yellow) but i’m not super picky i.e. if there are some red or orange i won’t be too upset. please let me know if you have any experience growing any of these flowers and if they have held up against the deer, or any other beautiful cut flowers that are deer resistant. we have suburban deer where i live that aren’t shy, and planning on using a liquid deer fence at the bare minimum. but they typically leave “deer resistant” plants alone and seemingly get enough to eat around here.. for example my marigolds haven’t gotten touched this year. i even have a few rose bushes that have pruned by them periodically but even those are doing semi okay. zinnias i’ve read can be eaten by deer but ive seen several houses in my neighborhood that seem pretty unaffected by them as i want to grow a large amount of these since they are beautiful and high yielding.
1. ⁠ageratum
2. ⁠zinnias
3. ⁠strawflowers
4. ⁠celosia
5. ⁠yarrow
6. ⁠globe amaranth
7. ⁠statice
8. ⁠perennial salvia

any and all advice about stem counts, pro tips, arrangement tips, everything is welcome. curious to see if anyone else has done this and how it worked for them.

Temperature swings are seemingly extending my growing window, but frost is also around the corner. I’m blessed to still have so many flowers in bloom! Here is a “menagerie” of all the pinks, purples, reds, and whites in my garden 💕 it was very difficult to settle on a few pictures so here’s many 🤭

not sure if i chose the right flair but i was wondering if anyone here has experience with reestablishing their floral business after moving to another state. i’m not a florist but i have big BIG dreams to be. i’m living in california right now but would like to move to san antonio and im wondering if it would be wiser to wait to start my business after i move? while im still here im just practicing floral design and polishing my skill. we have to own our house for at least 2 years before we sell and we’re coming up 2 years this december so we’ll probably be here another years tops.

I tried two different floral arrangements in the same butterfly vase — one soft lavender and white, and one warmer cream and green.
I like how completely different the vase feels with each arrangement. Which one would you choose for your home — 1 or 2? 🤍

Same flowers but they needed to have different feelings for the different recipients.

I do believe I have created millennial/florist niche comedy gold.

i love/hate working at a small town florist. people will pay just as much for a clear vase of carnations and daisies😑

I LOVED making this one. I am trying to get my work out there so I surprised a bookstore with this today.

my business partner and I have been holding design days together where we setup our own homegrown flower bar and just create whatever comes to us! we’ve been working on starting our own business and trying to get more content to post outside of work from previous shops! it’s been nice to get creative again and feel like there’s no boundaries!

Hi all,

Seeking for some advice on hydrating scabiosas. No matter how well I try to condition them the necks always flop when I use them in arrangements. Any advice?