It was an absolute honour in every sense of the word, for us to be asked by three of our “idols” in the Floral Design world, to create a piece for this year’s World Rose Festival.

Hilary Miles,Maureen Sullivan and Donna Hutton contacted us in early January and asked if we would like to represent Vancouver Island in the Floral Design component of the festival. It took place in the spectacular new Vancouver Convention Centre and was displayed in the “floral promenade”. We used over 200 stems of imported roses in all shades ranging from pale champagne to bright orange. Jenna Tye the brilliant photographer from Victoria accompanied us and our design all the way from our studio, on the ferry too the massive convention centre. Jenna never disapoints no matter what the subject is to so keep checking our website for Rose Festival spread in the galleries. In the mean time here are a few sneak peaks. Thank you, to our mentors Hilary, Maureen and Donna for this most amazing opportunity.

We had another opportunity to wave the “floral” wand out at the lovely Sea Cider Farm and Ciderhouse and transform thier space into an elegant and classy dining room. The client requested the use of apples in our design, and we immediatly thought of the crisp and clean look of the Granny Smith. We filled large glass cylinders with apples and water and topped them off with an abundant arrangement of local white and green hydrangeas. The look was clean, simple and classy. The two bar arrangements echoed the table centres along with the addition of luxurious magnolia leaves, and lush cymbidium orchids in a deep burgundy hue, that was reminicent of the boutiful crop of apples growing on the farms trees that sat below the deck of the ciderhouse. The evening was a huge success and was capped off with a spectacular view of the full moon rising over Mt. Baker.

This was a special wedding for us to be a part of as the beautiful bride was Vanessa’s daughter’s teacher. The wedding took place on a beautiful sunny BC day at the Church and State Winery in Brentwood Bay BC. We chose to go with the classic white and green palatte and used the idea of clustering different sizes of vases filled with arrangements of one kind of flower; alstromeria, lisianthus, roses and the orchids were placed in great little bud vases that looked like sea urchins. The large arrangements at the ceremony site were just complements to the fabulous old garry oak tree that Judith and Mike were married under. We will be using this wedding in our gallery once we get the photos from Amy Khangura. Best wishes and lots of love to a beautiful new couple!

We met with Kathrin way back in January and have been planning this wedding with her ever since, so to see it finally come to life was awesome. The ceremony took place at the English Inn and the reception was at the beautiful and regal Victoria Golf Club, one of the most elegant dining rooms in the city. Kathrin asked for pink, pink, and more pink. We created lush arrangements with roses, lisianthus and lily’s in an english country garden style. We used both tall arrangements on Eiffel tower vases and short ones, which created a very dramatic effect. The main piece and the one we talked about the most, was the extraordinary mantle arrangement that we built on site. We covered it in mounds of pink and white flowers, it was a spectacular addition to the room. We look forward to seeing how the incomparable Helene Cyr’s captured the day for a sneek peek of what she captured check out her blog here…Helene Cyr…. Thank you to Kathrin and Ian, we will miss the emails!