Free advice from award-winning florists

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Free advice from award-winning florists

March 28, 2008

Top: Flowers by David at the Philadelphia Flower Show. Above: Robertson's Flowers at the Philadelphia Flower Show.

I recently wrote about two flower stores, both part of the Teleflora network of florists, who won major awards at the Philly Flower Show theflowershow.com: Flowers by David (David and Robin Heller) flowersbydavid.com and Robertson’s Flowers (Karina Keff and Greg Funk) robertsonsflowers.com.

Their work is truly inspirational and impressive, especially given that Karina and Greg were first-timers at the show.

So, I asked these experts to share their top three rules of thumb for arranging flowers.

David Heller's were:
• Do what you like.
• Work simply: Sometimes a single flower can say more than a jumble.
• Have fun and enjoy yourself.

Robin Heller offered the following:
• Buy fresh flowers from a florist.
• Work by color group. Think of flowers as an accent to colors in your home.
• Work simply.

And Karina Keff suggests the following for spring:
• Use all one kind of flower, this makes more of statement, plus this way they all die at the same time.

• Create a lovely spring mix with bulb flowers in floral foam and include some real bulbs in it. This gives a great effect and after the arrangement dies you can plant the bulbs and enjoy it even longer.

• Get a 5”-wide and 10”-high clear glass cylinder and plant a small 4” bulb plant in it. Cover the dirt with green moss. This way you don't spend a lot of money and, as the plant starts growing inside the vase, it has support so it doesn't go all over the place. Smart and decorative as well.

Flower Fact of the Day: Dwarf plants aren't necessarily smaller versions, they just grow more slowly.

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Comments

mohammad | Reply
March 29, 2008

please insert flower design in website

Robert | Reply
March 29, 2008

I like the Hellers' outlooks. Having fun & enjoying the projects no doubt make for a
more relaxed creation.
Always thought Dwarf plants were smaller versions of the original. Thanks for the tip !