Whole Trade Roses

Sweet Pea loves fair trade roses!! Besides being beautiful they are responsible.  I source mine from Whole Foods Market,  WFM has been so nice as to travel all the way out to Quito, Ecuador and set up this arrangement with local farmers.

Whole Trade Guarantee promises that every product meets the following criteria:

• Meets Whole Food's high quality standards
• Provides more money to producers
• Ensures better wages and working conditions for workers
• Cares for the environment

 "Workers’ committees are using the premium to provide dental, medical and pediatric care, nutritional programs, literacy programs…the list goes on. Improved housing was a key project for every committee that we met."

 Please  request these roses from us for your wedding if this kind of thing floats your boat and read more about it on the WFM blog  They are more expensive but its only fair :)

Once Wed Inspired Bright Boutonnieres

New everlasting boutonnieres for our Etsy Shop These are composed of a faux dusty miller backing, dried craspedia (also known as billy balls) and guinea hen feathers.  Hoping to find some strapping man to pose in a jacket for a more true to life shot any takers?

Don't forget the Shower Flowers

Loving this new elephant tea pot that Melissa arranged in for the wedding shower! This arrangement is composed of lisianthus, fuji mums, tulips, pussy willow branches, craspedia, and green roses.  Stunning job Melissa!

Sweet Smells of Spring

You can't smell them from there but the lilacs in the bouquet are intoxicatingly sweet

A Wedding shower at Karl's Cabin

Arranged for Lovely Lynne of Mimi's Bridal and her niece Stephanie the guest of honor for this Bridal Shower at Karl's Cabin last weekend. These arrangements feature mini green leucadendron, dendrobium orchids, eucalyptus, spray roses, and yoko ono pomps.

Learn your Latin Unique Foliage Guide

I am beginning to think the best way to create a stunning bridal bouquet or guest table arrangement is to start with a solid base of uniquely textured foliage  here is a small guide

Thanks in advance to all of you unique, earthy, classic, and adventurous brides who let me play with these amazing greens (and blues) I can't wait to get my hands on em!!

 ~Sweet Pea

Half a Mile of Daffodils Blooming at Nicholas Arboretum

With the help of more than 150 volunteers from the community, Michigan artist Susan Skarsgard created an art installation of 20,000 daffodils that, while in bloom, helped visitors reflect on the borders that separate and lines that connect in the world.

GO SEE EM AT THE ARBORETUM A HALF OF DAFFS FOR LOVERS OF FLOWERS