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21/05/2026

May 20th cut from my garden. When the garden is this bountiful I sometimes cannot resist upgrading gift arrangements for clients!

Tiger babies
Dahlia “Copperboy” from
David Austin “Roald Dahl” Garden Roses
Xeranthemum
Cherry Caramel Phlox
Huechera
BlackBerry Foliage
California Poppy Thai Silk Pink Champagne

I actually think the tiger babies would look even more striking with the dark pollen but I removed them so they won’t make a mess 😆

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13/05/2026

For Nicole 🤍

Once in a while you just get sent your own work as inspiration, and you know you’re the florist for them 😊

This one was a combo of special blooms grown in my garden and bunches from market (thank you for saving me the drive to just pick up a few bunches of flowers, and all the color and quality checking 🙏🏻) especially around Mother’s Day, the market may have what you thought you wanted but the quality may be picked over, cut too early or cut too late. Trusting your florist (a beautiful fresh bunch of something else that meets your palette substituted for something on your mood board that’s browning, shedding or poorly handled is ALWAYS the better option!)

From my garden:
White peonies
Scabiosa pods
Xeranthemum
Thai Silk Pink Champagne California Poppies
Bolero Rose

From the market:
Tulips
Caramel Antike Garden Roses
Tweedia

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11/05/2026

Collaboration between all your wedding professionals takes a little more communication but always guarantees the best result, and we are team players that always want the best for your wedding.

As I’ve been playing with these wired pieces, I had questions that kept popping up because both your HMUA and florist has a busy morning timeline! What is their preferred way to secure it? Do they know that they can mold the curvature of the design so that it follows your hairstyle, and turn individual blooms to adjust for how far back it is placed? Do you want it primarily seen from the front, side or back?

In collaboration with the talented she did my hair and makeup, and we talked through how the wire work is designed to be adjustable for different hairstyles. See how big a difference it makes from when it is just pinned in out of the box?

Tag your HMUA if you’re considering fresh floral accessories like hair combs, hair pins, or other custom floral headpieces! They can be dainty and cute, large and editorial, or anything inbetween. I think this more modern take on a flower crown is a very elegant and whimsical option that would look good with both updos or if you are wearing your hair down.

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09/05/2026

If you’ve ever wondered what a florist arranges for her own mother-in-law 😆

Gotta go big with the good stuff! All grown in my zone 9b garden:
Princess Charlene Garden Rose
Koko Loko garden rose
Peony
Bearded Iris
Blackberry foliage
Huechera
California poppy
Foxglove
Sweet Pea Balmoral
Yarrow

Also patting myself on the back to get the colors of the two roses to work together, it’s not an easy transition but some bold color actually makes it work!

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Happy Mother’s Day Weekend!To all the incredibly hardworking superheroes in our life ❤️Did you know both my parents were...
09/05/2026

Happy Mother’s Day Weekend!

To all the incredibly hardworking superheroes in our life ❤️

Did you know both my parents were teachers? I had my mom listen to all 450 minutes of my business mentorship curriculum and give me feedback from a teaching perspective (and someone without the same background/knowledge about the industry) to refine my slides for more effective learning. How many people can say their mom actually understands what they do at work? 😆

She’s also been my inspiration to stay healthy for my own kids. At 71 she still swims daily, takes yoga, Pilates, goes hiking regularly and is able to lift my toddler. As our friends are all entering the stage of worried about their parents’ health, it’s a huge gift to me and motivates me to prioritize my own health and build strength.

Mom will be visiting next week, so the flowers today are for my mother-in-law ❤️

07/05/2026

Just really enjoying these Thai Silk Pink Champagne California poppies right now!

They took years of trying to survive, but wow she was worth the effort 🫶

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28/04/2026

On petite bouquets:

I always try to get on the same page as clients when something petite is requested, because you don’t want it to be “too small”!

This is what one of my past brides called a “smedium” 😂 it’s lightweight, chic and won’t overwhelm you or your dress even if you’re petite! It’s also a nice size where you can still differentiate from the bridesmaids bouquets, because it’s hard to design much smaller than what I made yesterday.

If you missed my stories, I got a request to purchase what I made yesterday but I didn’t feel comfortable selling it because these “event” varieties typically only have a 3-4 day vase life. We babysit the flowers carefully in the cooler so they are at their peak for a wedding, but I’m not fully comfortable with them going out for a “retail” setting when they’re already halfway done, so I went out and cut some fresh blooms to replace the ones I suspected would look tired tomorrow and added to the original design. This slightly larger design is actually 50% more blooms than yesterday’s design. If you math, volume of a sphere is 4/3*pi*r^3 🤓 not that I make spheres!

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28/04/2026

I actually love petite bouquets! The secret to cute tiny bouquets is tiny flowers, and a lot of them!

I love a big fluffy romantic bloom as well (think garden roses, peonies, ranunculus and dahlias) but even when making medium or large bouquets I will surround these with a veil of whimsical dancing flowers to keep the bouquet from becoming too chunky and dense. When brides request petite bouquets, using all small flowers allows for something super chic and light to carry.

Caveat: these flowers are VERY delicate, and will show how unhappy they are if left out of water for a long time!

Years ago there was this one CA poppy bouquet that I would keep seeing requests for, before a small handful of local growers started growing these. I tried for years but my seedlings would die on transplant, never come up when direct sowed, or show briefly before getting eaten by slugs or earwigs. I would glare at the bright orange ones growing in the cracks of sidewalks and wonder what I was doing wrong. About 4 years of trying I managed to get some to survive and I’ve let them perennialize and self sow in my garden ever since. They have to be cut before the pollinators get to them, since they will quickly drop petals if pollinated. They also open and close with the sun, so they are tricky to design with if kept in the cooler! This makes them a day-before or day of ingredient to add (with a plan for extras in case of casualties), but I think their satiny sheen is worth it the trouble!

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27/04/2026

Where we ended up…

If you missed yesterday’s stories, I took apart the previous arrangement because the colors didn’t quiiiiite go together as well as I wanted, and chose a subset of the things I thought might work together for this iteration.

When you have just the right combination, the color bridges pull in elements that you may not think go together. The dark heuchera stems with their pale cream bells and the cherry caramel phlox are really what ties the light and dark together, with the Koko Loko acting as the perfect mid-tone if the colors were mixed together. The blackberry foliage actually acts as a cleansing contrasting neutral to prevent it from all feeling muddy.

This was actually the color story I chose for my own wedding, and I still love it 4 years later. The entire arrangement is made of flowers I grew in my little zone 9b garden but it’s taken years of experimentation to find what works together AND blooms together.

If you’d like to take a workshop focused on color theory and ingredient selection with me, DM to schedule a 1:1 or small group design workshop!

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I don’t do this often…Designing for IG is a completely different thing from real design. You can skip properly covering ...
25/04/2026

I don’t do this often…

Designing for IG is a completely different thing from real design. You can skip properly covering your mechanics, leave the back totally empty, and make something that has much more negative space. In my mind this isn’t representative of a design for real life, where wedding guests will see an arrangement from at minimum 270 degrees if it’s front facing, or 360 if it will be on a table. I’d estimate needing 2.5x more product than I used here for full coverage of a design this size.

But sometimes my garden doesn’t give me a lot to work with that fits the colors blooming that day, and these smoky lavender bearded iris only bloom once a year, so I feel obligated to make something, even though in one extra day the honey dijon and koko loko I cut will be softer in color, the the iris will be gone.

When you start to understand the logistics and timing of wedding flowers, you understand how much extra is required for wholesalers and growers to have a specific variety available for a specific date, often in the hundreds of stems. In the midst of garden rose peak season, with two plants, I may have zero or 8 stems of a particular color.

Since I have limited space, I tend to grow highly productive cut and come again varieties that rebloom through their season.

Late April in 9b/10a Northern California (Cherryland):
Blackberry foliage
Garden roses Honey Dijon, Bolero, Desdemona
Bearded Iris Flying Solo
Sweet Pea Balmoral

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