Air Plants!

The designers are having so much fun with air plants these days! Also known as Tillandsia, air plants are so easy to care for and add a bit of spunk to an arrangement.  Air plants do not have roots, do not require soil, and mainly thrive on the dust and moisture in the air, which means they are super easy for those missing a green thumb.  There are so many ways to use these plants: add them to an arrangement, use them on a piece of drift wood, or place them on top of some beautiful river rocks - that is just the start, the possibilities are endless.

To round out the summer, try getting an air plant and putting it into one of the shells you found this summer at the beach.  Here are the instructions for how-to do it!

 

[via Martha Stewart]

For more information on air plants, click here and here.

Upside Down Callas

Check out this gorgeous arrangement from Hotel Murano. I love the calla lilies hanging down inside the vase - some good floral engineering to accomplish that one!

Hotel Murano is located in Tacoma, Washington and is inspired by glass art.  For more photos of the hotel, click here.  [Found via Apartment Therapy and photo by Toby Weiss of the B.E.L.T blog.]

Group of White Vases

More vases to help with the single-stem-grouping flower arranging style! Available from Graham and Green in the UK in either a 7 or 12 stem group. 

 

Found via Lovely Little Things

Bouquets

Founds some new (at least to me) beautiful pictures of unique bouquets on Martha Stewart's Wedding website today.  Gorgeous Inspiration!

I have seen more and more of these beautiful roses.  According to MS, this is Michael George's signature bridal bouquet - the Couture Rose.  It is made by removing the petals from a bunch of roses and then wiring them into one bloom - 6 to 7 inches across.

Some unique additions in the bouquets above.  In the first one, herbs - thyme, rosemary and sage - compliment the lily of the valley, grape hyacinth, scented-geranium foliage, and lamb's ear.  And in the second one, small shells work their way into pink bouquet.

Succulents, succulents, succulents! They are everywhere, and I love them! What a beautiful combination with the orchids and ranunculus.

One flower bouquets here - carnations, anemones, and calla lillies!

Click here for even more pictures.

Some More Spring Trends

Here are some beautiful arrangements using the colorful gray trend for flower arranging this spring.   I love the big green arrangements!  They are so tall and  impressive. 

[images from the Flower Council of Holland]

Click here for some more arrangements that fall in line with this trend.

And click here for our previous post on using gray this spring. 

Spring Flower Trends

Some spring flower trends have been posted by the UK Flowers and Plants Association.  I think they are right on point with selecting gray as one of the trends.  I have seen lots of gray out there.  It is a neutral color that allows the flowers to pop against it.  Here is some  information about the trend,  which they name "Colourful Grey" (British spelling), from their site:

Colourful Grey’ symbolises all that is fabulous in nature.  Like the first splashes of dawn glimpsed over dark and sleeping hills. Like walking along a pebbled beach on a crisp, spring morning, and noticing one bright orange starfish, washed up by the surf and glowing like a flame amongst ash. Like looking up at a greying spring sky at dusk, and seeing the blues and greens of a magpie’s wing glinting in the dying sun. This is nature personified; with a duality of opposites coming together to form exquisite beauty. 

Here are some pictures of how to design floral arrangements using the gray and colorful pops of gerbera daisies.

[Pictures from UK Flower and Plants Association]

More spring flower trends to come later this week and next!