Yesterday, Carling made this beautiful arrangement for a dinner party and posted it on Facebook. We received a comment/question from a woman who has taken a few of our design classes and is enthusiastic about improving her design skills.
“I was just wondering today if I could mix winter greens with spring flowers? This picture answers the question.”
It was a great comment, and one that deserves some attention. Local Color Flowers is proud to use locally grown flowers in all of our arrangements. What you may not know, is that we also you 100% locally grown foliage as well. In the winter, most of the foliage we can get from the local farms is evergreens including boxwood, magnolia, fir, pine, cedar and camellia along with lots of “sticks” including pussy willow, curly willow, fantail willow, flowering branches and more. On a rare occasion, we can get our hands on dusty miller and eucalyptus.
Our designs are unique because we are designing with what is available locally-flowers, foliage and branches. Using evergreens gives the arrangement a “winter’ feel. Combined with tulips and iris, the arrangement perfectly reflects the season, as we think it should…cold, crisp, green, brown…with the promise of spring ahead.
what a great arrangement! it's often hard to find the right foliages to go with tulips - I always felt they look awful with traditional florist Baker's Fern (but then everything does...), but I LOVE tulips with evergreens. Its just a lovely combo.
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