garden rose

How did I continue this blog for this long without mentioning the Garden roses!

I love flowers. All types, any kinds. No discrimination. However, I do have an absolute favorite flower as a gardener, and that is garden roses. In my June garden, the garden roses that I grow are in full bloom. ( Which makes June my very favorite month.)

They are are incredibly elegant, yet so friendly. The quality that I most love about garden roses.
I've been a fan of them for ages, so I am very happy when I discover new varieties of of them in the market. As a florist, I am always curious how they do, ( if they open, how they open, how long they will last etc.) so I often purchase them and test them !

This bright pink ones were irresistible!





The price of garden roses are easily 3 to 4 times the price of the conventional rose. So, a full on event with garden roses may be bit extravagant usually, but they can be used as a wonderful highlight in an arrangement or a bouquet. They will certainly create a very special feel which can't be produced by other roses.

What can I say, I simply am a fan of garden roses !
I highly recommend you to try them at least once.

kaz@ibg

viburnum

I love the color of this flower viburnum. ( In fact, my favorite color is the cast of apple greens and some of my rooms are this color!)
Young hydrangea is in this coloration and they can be found more easily in the market, but my personal pick would be to use viburnum if they are available.
Viburnum has more movement due to the long, narrow and slender stems and I just love the relaxed feeling of it.
So, naturally, I like arranging just as themselves. However, this is a color that can work harmoniously with many other colors, so viburnum can often be the supporting character in the play of arrangements.


As such!
Preference?



Often available throughout the year (coming from all over the world), but the local season will be around May. Ooo it's coming before we know it!

kaz@ibg

ranunculus

Almost looks like a poppy, but Ranunculus!
I've featured this flower many times last year, and this won't be the last.
Just love this flower!



As if dancing... so cute and joyful!

Enjoy the weekend everyone.


kaz@ibg

poppy

Poppies oh poppies how pretty they are...!
And how challenging they are!
I love this flower... poppy. Beautiful, cheerful and luminous.
The range of happy colors are simply irresistible.
I would think this flower would make anyone smile. It's like having a beautifully free spirited friend around. Just lovely.
However, beauty doesn't come so easily!
I find this flower bit challenging to manage. We keep trying different and new ways to treat poppies so they hydrate correctly and well all the times. Easier said than done.
On top of that, available season for poppy is not long. We recently had to change a concept for an event because the event date is just a little bit late for poppies. Alas...

Not easy flower to use for events, so why feature it here in this blog?

Because it's so very beautiful !!






It may not be possible sometimes (as nature dictates) to use/plan poppies for an event, but sure is lovely to hope for and worth challenging for...

That's poppies!!


I am feeling a glimpse of spring in the air despite the additional 6" of snow this morning...
It's coming! It's coming! Spring will come. Hopefully soon enough!


kaz@ibg

anemone

Hello everyone!
Here at inbetween greens, the new year began with this beautiful blue purple anemone.
The winter weather in NY has been bit unstable, so it's been a challenge knowing how, when and if certain flowers can get to us in time. It would have been easier to plan using other flowers, but we always want to try our very best to use flowers that speaks to us in special ways, so we went ahead and planned this. (of course with backup plans in place!)
Winter weather produces the need for extra effort in so many ways, but it's well worth the investment when we are able to deliver what we promised and something special. Many thanks to people who makes it possible for us.

Being that this is our first post this year, I wish you all a happy healthy and beautiful new year!
We are excited and looking forward to working with all of our clients this year!

Super cold weather coming up to NYC, bundle up and stay warm!!

kaz@ibg

anemone

Here in our studio at Inbetween Greens, we seem to have the favorite flower every season, and it was anemone for the past few weeks!
In nature they are spring flowers. But anemones are in full force at the flower market looking very beautiful.
They are available in white, pink, red, and shades of purples. My current favorites are white ones and deep plum purple ones. Isn't the button like center so cute?

Such cold days here in NYC, flowers are wonderful companion to my soul as always!

Wishing you all, a wonderful, beautiful holidays!!!

kaz@ibg

tree peony

Meet this tree peony!
We came across this particularly beautiful ones to accent one of our most recent event. Peonies in general have a lot of presence. So even one stem of it makes a statement. (so I often think!)
But peonies in November?
Well, they come from country such as New Zealand which has seasons in opposite cycle to ours.
So we were able to have peony focused event recently and it was beautiful!
One thing though about tree peonies (which is different from peonies)are that they are rather hard to "plan". I feel there are some flowers that you just meet and not plan. But when we are able to find them in perfect timing, I wouldn't hesitate to use them!

November is ending already! I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving holiday!

kaz@ibg