Denver Post - ROOM

In today's Denver Post there is a write up in the ROOM section about how to set your Thanksgiving Holiday Tables. It was a great way to wake up this morning when I flipped to the page and saw the centerpiece that our Michelle created. She had a very short time limit to come up with something creative that people could reproduce in their own homes. I really like how she wrapped the vases with various colors of orange and brown ribbons. Then each vase contained one element of traditional Thanksgiving decorations; including berries - bittersweet and hypericum, one floating confetti rose, red coxcomb, orange unique roses, gourds and in the center a vase with victorian birch and nandina leaves.
Also fun to see our friends at Bouquets, Catering By Design, Delilah's of Denver and Footers Catering all featured!

Thanksgiving arrangements

Hard to believe that Thanksgiving is next week! Where did November go? I've heard a few people saying this. I think it's because we haven't had any snow yet and such warm temperatures?
Nonetheless, it is just some days away and time to order those Thanksgiving centerpieces! We will deliver up until Wednesday evening, November 21. A minimum of $50 per arrangement plus delivery and sales tax. We can also arrange to have flowers delivered throughout the USA and overseas, call us for details. We accept visa and master card for these deliveries.
(we are closed Nov. 22-25)
Here are some of photos of our previous work:
This arrangement would be great to place on a side table. It has height with the curly willow branches and the flowers include blue iris, orange asiatic lilies, yellow stock, nandina leaves, red roses, montbretia pods and gourds.

Here we have two colors of roses, kumquats, pin-cushions and safari sunset.

This arrangement contains a large mixture of fall flowers and textures, including roses, sedum, montbretia pods, hydrangea, safari sunset, nandina, scabiosa and coneflowers.

Not pictured would be a long&low style arrangement. I do love to do these types of centerpieces which fit nicely down the center of a oblong or rectangular table.

Keystone - Timber Ridge

One of my all-time favorite weddings took place at Keystone - Timber Ridge. It was a late August wedding and my first time at that location. The ceremony took place on the deck with the guests facing the beautiful view of big trees and blue sky. We didn't do any decoration for the ceremony itself, only the personal flowers.
The bride carried a hand-tied bouquet of 5 green goddess calla lilies with jasmine vines. Her bridesmaids carried one stem of green goddess each. The groomsmen wore a white mini-calla lily. The flower girl wore a halo of white dendrobrium orchids with greenish/white sedum. Very delicate and adorable!

Inside for reception we decorated 6 long tables with tall vases that enclosed a stem of green cymbidium orchid. We had about 3-5 of these per table. Then between the vases we ran bamboo. I had purchased the bamboo fresh from the Carolinas and then cut and shaped them to size at the studio. The bamboo was filled with moss, black river rock, green cymbidiums, purple dendrobriums, succulents and japonica leaves.



On the back of the bride & groom's chairs we attached a cluster of green goddess calla lilies.

The four tiered cake was decorated lightly with a few blooms of the green cymbidium & purple dendrobrium orchids.

Sierra Flower Finder

Here's a great website for anyone that wants to learn more about flower varieties:
http://sierraflowerfinder.com/
It's an online reference for everything you need to know about flowers. They have pictures of over 2500 varieties of flowers.
A great resource for a bride doing some research and for other floral professionals that need information on flower seasons, etc.

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San Francisco Flower Market

I love SF Flower Market, always have. Prior to moving to Denver in 2002 I had a business in SF called Alicia Chestine Designs. Every Wednesday I'd arrive at the flower market at 5am to hand pick all my fresh flowers, most of which had just come in from the farms on the coast. The amount and variety of flowers is amazing. I haven't been to the market for a few years now so returning this past week was quite fun. I picked up some new containers and some new novelty stuff - like other types of California Crystals. Here are some photos of the mass amount of flowers:

hello from California

I'm home in northern California. Looks like I'll be heading out first thing Tuesday morning to return to Denver. It's been beautiful out here. I had a great time at the SF flower mart and gathering manzanita branches off our friend's property. Everything is so plentiful here! Fun new stuff to add to our shop. Here's a picture from the front yard!