For the above event I used hydrangea, tuberose, Casablanca lilies, white orchids, dusty miller and birch branches.
Same containers, used with a fall color scheme: orange pincushion protea, Friendship roses, chocolate cymbidiums, orange speckled mokara orchids, more hydrangea, kiwi vine and lots of moss.
This morning I helped my friend Nancy pot up a large pencil cactus for one of her client's balconies that gets full sun almost all day. Luckily Nancy had already completed the plantings in the 2 smaller green pots with succulents, cactus and echeverias by the time I got there. For low maintenance in the Texas heat you can't beat this type of container garden. (Cactus in terracotta pot on table from another source.)
Oh, how I wish I had access to this luxurious outside space, with gorgeous views over Austin... I'd kick back with a Mint & Honey Sweet Leaf Tea, and hope the mosquitos couldn't find me.
Matthew Mead, where have you been all my life? I just found out about his great website, and you simply must go there and flip through the pages of his books. I'm really inspired by the fruit and flower centerpiece on the cover of Entertaining Simple.
I had the pleasure of playing around with some veggies today for a project I'm working on. Here's a small peek of an arrangement with baby 'graffiti' eggplants, baby carrots, enoki mushrooms, pineapple flowers, roses and sedum heads.
Last week I finally rolled into Austin, my adopted hometown, to scorching hot temperatures and warm hugs from so many friends. Ahhhh. It's the first time I've been back since Kyle and I moved to New Zealand about a year and a half ago.
If you haven't seen Saskia Havekes' wonderful book Grandiflora Arrangements, here are a few delightful pages. The daughter of artists who grew up surrounded by Australian bush, Havekes turned her talent to floral design, with a refreshingly unstructured style. Visit her Sydney shop's website to see more examples of her work.
"I rarely start out with a preconceived idea – I look to what is offered naturally by the floral world and then take my cue from that," says Havekes in a wonderful article on urbanboheme.
Images from House&Garden. All photos by Gary Heery.
I'm a huge fan of using unusual foliage mixed with flowers... and it doesn't have to be flown in from an exotic place. Chances are you've got some things growing in and around your home that would look stunning either alone, or mixed with a few blooms. Images from MSLiving.
What an unexpected tie for a wedding, I love it!
"When my daughter Heather decided to turn her passion for wedding design into a full-fledged business and encouraged me to not only do what I love but turn it into a business with her, Amorology Weddings, and respectively Twigg Botanicals were born," says Robin Mathis, who did all the floral design for this wedding.
Don't forget to check out Heather's blog First Comes Love...Amorology. It's filled with behind-the-scenes tips and more Amorology weddings. I'm always curious why people start blogging and when I asked Heather she said, "I decided to start blogging to keep my brides in the loop with what I was doing and also as a type of journal for myself and place to gather ideas. I was really concerned in the beginning that it would be too time consuming to keep up with, amid all of the other planning and things that keep me busy from appointments to being a mommy of two! Any extra effort that it has taken though has definitely been worth it! It has been a wonderful avenue for making connections in the bridal industry and for exposing more of my work as well as that of my vendors too. It has been my best source of advertising so far! I love it!"
Thanks for all the inspiration Heather! All images by Jamie Hammond Photography.
