This weekend was a cruel tease. Eighty degrees one day, 20 the next? No thank you. Hopefully, you’re one of the lucky people reading D Home in your PJs on your couch. Even if you aren’t, we’ve got some pretty flowers to perk up your mood (and make you crave spring even more than you already did).
This month’s floral expert is Debby Jewesson, the principal at Branching Out Floral & Event Design. She’s chatting all about Mother Nature’s most colorful and prosperous season, which is — yup, you guessed it — spring.
“Spring is the most abundant season for fresh flowers, offering the widest variety of blooms from all over the world,” Debby says. She selected some of her favorites for us, which include insanely fragrant white tuberose, classic pink peonies, vibrant yellow ranunculas, purple lisianthus, and sweet yellow daffodils. The blooms filling Branching Out’s warehouse are from all over the world, including Mexico, Holland, South America, and even Dallas!
If you’re looking to create a floral masterpiece for you home, Debby has some advice:
“For a residential style, I prefer more of one variety of blooms in mass versus a mixed arrangement. This is also a more simple design to execute for a novice designer. Just be sure to give all your stems a snip before putting in fresh water. This doesn’t mean you can leave the stems sitting on your counter after you cut them. That extended exposure to air after a snip causes the oxygen to clog the “waterways” in the stems. Cut, then put immediately into the water. This will result in more efficient water uptake and a longer lasting bloom.”
We’ve also had Fashion Week on the brain recently, and wanted to know what trends Debby is spotting for spring floral. You can bet on seeing slightly more deconstructed arrangements.
“Goodbye big round flower ball arrangements! Hello texture and looseness! Be on the lookout for florals reminiscent of a Dutch masters painting, with asymmetrical blooms sticking out from a lush base. Specialty fern foliages are also making their way into arrangements, including maidenhair fern, Australian star fern and Boston fern.”
Reminiscent of a Dutch masters painting? I just finished reading The Goldfinch, so that’s something I can definitely appreciate.
