Holiday Reminiscence

Holiday Reminiscence

January 2023 is here, and I am thinking back on a very fun project from the past holiday season. Longwood Gardens invited its Continuing Education Floral Design instructors to stage floral designs in the conservatory’s Music Room display. My photographer friend, Kate...
FRIENDS AND FLOWERS WELCOME THE WINTER HOLIDAYS

FRIENDS AND FLOWERS WELCOME THE WINTER HOLIDAYS

Photographs by Kate Fahey My December began the holiday season with a visit from the Dallas Garden Club to the Merion Cricket Club in Haverford, Pennsylvania, for a tour of the historic building and a floral design celebration to usher in the 2022 Christmas season....
Thankful for Color

Thankful for Color

Thanksgiving begins the winter holiday season and celebrates the harvest. Ain November, I get great pleasure from the rust, orange, and scarlet colors of the foliage and flowers that create the Thanksgiving holiday mood. Deep rust chrysanthemum combine with lighter...
Bouquets with Straw

Bouquets with Straw

Straw is the waste product of wheat and most often used to for animal bedding and to add fiber, but not nutrition to animal food. It makes an excellent mulch for the garden and has many uses for decoration, especially in the fall. Straw sickles make an interesting...
Working with Sustainable Mechanics

Working with Sustainable Mechanics

Moving into Autumn This month I am teaching two classes at Longwood Gardens.   They are the first “in-person” classes for me since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020.   Both classes focus on locally grown fall flowers from The Farm at Oxford and mechanics to...
Art Nouveau at OFAD

Art Nouveau at OFAD

On August 4 the Organization of Floral Art Designers opened their 2022 annual symposium in San Francisco CA.  Five designers presented demonstrations and workshops and OFAD members staged cutting edge designs throughout the hotel.   You can find more about Art Nouveau...