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Ten ways (Minimum) you’ll Design Better with Floral Mesh

Is your work counter crowded? Does simplicity—and beauty—appeal to your floral soul? If it does, what if, with one endlessly useful new product, you could kick some things off your counter a...

How to add Elegance to an Edgy Industrial Floral Design

How do you get your floral designs from Flourtown to the national spotlight in Philadelphia? One way is to innovate an intriguing style, refine it over time and then have the right people see it...

Turn Wedding Cakes into Fabulous Flower Cake Tables

Looking for the latest sweet ideas for wedding reception decorations? “Focusing on the cake table is one of the newest wedding trends,” says Mandy Majerik AIFD of Hothouse Design Studio in B...

How to Create Wearable Floral Haute Couture

Creating floral couture for mannequins and creating fresh flowers designs someone can actually wear? Two very different things. Wearable floral couture has to be light. There’s no water sourc...

How to Create Amazing Fresh Flower Couture

Designing amazing fresh flower couture for display or to wear? In addition to creating captivating floral couture looks, challenges can include weight, size, placement, water source, secure ...

Create a Spectacular Flower Chandelier using Floral Foam Tiles

What’s your first step when a bride asks for a large and dramatic fresh flower design you’ve never done before? “Getting over the fear of doing it!” says Alan B. Thompson AIFD of McNamara Floris...

Aloha Fun: How to Make and Sell Leis Wherever You Are

You don’t have to be Hawaiian or in Hawaii to celebrate with fresh flower leis. Lei-giving is a great way to honor individuals anywhere. Birthdays, graduations, dances, parties, weddings, ce...

Hesitate no More: 15 Fabulous Garden and Tropical Flower Arrangements

Photo: Sharon McGukin for Texas Floral Showcase Macaroni and cheese. Bed and breakfast. Chocolate and peanut butter (and almost anything). What are these? Individually popular items that togethe...

How and Why to Design with Succulents

With roots? Without? In pots? However you incorporate or sell them, succulents have moved from the steppes and deserts to the garden to mainstream floral design. Industry insiders report succule...

How to Create and Display Circular Wedding Arches

Wedding gates. Moon gates. Infinity arches. Circular wedding wreaths. Circular wedding arches. Whatever you call them, large circular floral arrangements are topping the wedding charts this year. ...