During the week leading up to an event, we spend lots of time preparing our vessels with necessary mechanics so they are ready for flowers. We enjoy driving around collecting blooms and connecting with local growers as well as walking through a few of our favorite nurseries.

Over time, we have learned that it’s so much easier to let the right flower selection work for you rather than against you, and curating harmonious floral ingredients for events is one of the most crucial parts of the design process.

What bloom varieties are we shopping for from local growers?

Typically, we love to find anything delicate and airy, or whatever catches our eye in terms of color to best suit the palette we’re working with. We love arugula flowers, ocean pearls, blooming clematis, fritillaria lilies, foxglove, antique hydrangea, northern sea oats, love in a puff, cosmos, bleeding hearts, hosta flowers, hellebore, larkspur, peonies, ranunculus, tulips, hyacinth, icelandic poppies, iris, pansies, rudbeckia, echinacea, phlox and zinnia. The list goes on and on.

Do you use any foliage types or blossoming branches in designs?

Yes! Many of our designs are informed by gestural stems, small blooms and layering ingredients to create dimension. Our favorite way to use greenery is by giving it space to sprawl and climb. We consider the way these varieties grow in their natural environments and work to reflect this as we design. We enjoy using jasmine vine, gooseberry, raspberry bush, ninebark, smoke bush, silver lace vine, trailing hops, ninebark, tomato vine, dogwood, forsythia, cherry blossoms, quince, spirea and lilac.

Is there a philosophy you keep in mind while bringing certain ingredients together?

We always look to soften the frame between our arrangements and the natural environment that surrounds them. Sourcing from local growers ensures that we are able to design with the season’s best offerings. It also means that our flowers won’t need to travel as far to make their debut in arrangements we’re providing for events. We tend to keep an open mind and are eager to visit with growers to let their perspective inform our selection as well.