Playing with lots of things the past few days helped along by MY NEW COOLER!!!  I am pretty excited to say the least especially because it i...

It really felt like fall yesterday and fittingly I did the arrangements for the first school event of the season - a dinner party at Landon....

This is the final sample for a wedding coming up - silvers and whites....lots of textures of both foliages and flowers.

Tonight is Frances' birthday party,  Her favorite color is peach so I used wonderful huge Faro peach roses, peach sprays, peach ranuculu...

I feel as though I have made a big leap toward using more types of foliages in arrangements.  I usually try to use at least 3, now I am uppi...

A A few tweaks to the piece to the piece in the previous post, ranuculus instead of anemones in the first bouquet photo and in the seco...

I am doing more samples than ever before - it makes everyone more comfortable and not worried that the idea they have for their flowers will...

I have been playing around with colors today - I love Amnesia roses and Cafe au Lait dahlias (even if they are not real Cafe au Laits accord...

I am working on samples this week and love this silver and white idea.  I used tree fern,  white callas, roses, lisianthus, veronica and ast...

This weekend I did two weddings with lots of purples....the first wedding had a lime green and purple color story and it was lots of fun.......

Kristin and Cedric got married today.  She wanted a vibrantly colored wedding and we used bright hot pinks and purples with some cooling lav...

I have been working on some ideas for early fall weddings - a little bit of fall coloration but the brightness of summer. Dahlias, teddy bea...

I seem to be in a white and green phase these days....today I made this little piece for delivery.  Some peegee hydrangeas  and baptisia fol...

Today I made a small bridal bouquet in a holder.  The bride wanted all white flowers so I used spray roses, white callas, white dendrobium, ...

Last week I made this succulent arrangement in an old fountain for a wedding.  I love the play of colors in succulents and this container wa...

This arrangement just went out the door to a bridal shower.  The client wanted a fresh green and white arrangement.  I used baby green hydra...

Every year I plant up lots of pots for a client in Virginia.  They are scattered around the property mostly in pairs but there are close to ...

Today in ikebana class we made free style designs.  I used sago palm - one of my least favorite types of greenery.  It is thorny and stiff a...

Some little posies for a lunch party at Holton this spring.  I love pierus - it really extends the lily of the valley season in a way - it h...

Last July I had the pleasure of taking a workshop with Holly Chapple at her home studio in Virginia.  We did a collaborative wedding set u...

Just fooling around with things on hand...anthirium leaves, beautiful parrot tulips, eucalyptus and a burgandy airplant in one of my favorit...

Today I made a sample for a tall arrangement.  The bride originally wanted a puff of babies breath but I used a colorful wax flower instead ...

These pieces are on the work table tonight - variations on a theme.  The bride loves Amnesia roses but today they came in a ve...

Alix and David got married last Sat at the Whittemore House at Dupont Circle.  We worked with a blush, peach and pink color schem...

Today we made arrangements for a dinner meeting of doctors at the WNDC/Whittemore House in DC.  They requested predominantly orange arrangem...