This was a very fun project! My assignment was to create a setting for some very different SF neighborhood signs. Each table was to be named after a local district. I began by fanning out the cards next to the flowers in the market to come up with a family that worked with all the colors. A sweet challenge indeed! My favorite find was the perfect sunset shaded rose to bring out the one color that was in all the signs. The setting was the Golden Gate Club in San Francisco, it was a misty evening, perfectly mirroring the way the artist had rendered all his images. Lots of gold votives and covered ivy pots filled out the space below and made a welcoming warm glow.

​Here is one of my favorite holiday arrangements from last year.... I fell in love with the beautiful red/orange roses and the variegated cedar... all the other flower choices and colors came after those two had been picked... lots of texture and warm hues make for a welcoming centerpiece.

My bride brought me swatches of her wedding dress fabric and an exquisite shawl to show me her preferred color palette. And so ensued this gorgeous floral combination of vibrant fall shades. She (with the fabulous caterers “Just Us Catering”) had chosen the linen and napkin colors and so I married the two creating this renaissance style centerpiece, complete with copper urns, persimmons, pomegranates and green berries decorating the table.

These photos of our beautiful bride say it all!  Sweet wedding bliss captured in timeless snap shots.  I had a lovely time transforming Caitlin’s idea of a ‘fairy’ urban rustic chic inspired wedding into florals.  For the centerpieces we incorporated moss blocks, birch bark risers, woodsy table top mushrooms, surrounded by silver crackle votives.  Soft peach colored dahlias were the focal point amidst dusty miller leaves, solidago, lycopodium and deep burgundy cosmos.   

Caitlin’s bouquet heralded exquisite ivory helleborus, gorgeous lush bells that arched amidst ranunculas (Caitlin’s favorite flower), feathery astilbe, heavenly cosmos, rosemary from the garden and the sweetest peach carnations you have ever seen! The burlap wrap around the stems matched the binding of Matt’s boutonniere … a tiny combination including rosemary, astilbe and hypericum berries.

Caitlin, Siani (Caitlin’s sister) and I had the very best girl time together choosing and arranging these flowers.

You are invited to a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party!  Here is whimsy at it’s best. Fanciful teapots are filled with brightly colored flowers and tiny teacups rest amidst mushrooms and topiaries. Vintage cake plates and wrought iron risers create height and even more eccentricity.

This floral was created with some specific specs.... it was to be placed on a long, narrow wooden table in a Mexican restaurant and had to liven up some rather dull decor.  Since the celebration was a husband's birthday we didn't want it to be too soft or feminine.  So, thinking chile peppers and a sunny climate we washed the box with a thin coat of blue and popped in some vibrant shades with just a hint of greenery.  Mission accomplished and we had one very happy wife!

An autumn tablescape with warm fall colors for a wine country reception.

Flowers used: Asclipias, Golden Roses, Toyon Berries, Tulips, Alstroemerias, Red Clovers, Oak Leaves

Summer, here on the gorgeous coast of California, has clearly arrived!

What better way to celebrate (and create darling centerpieces) than with vibrant parasols and paper lanterns?!

Mix and match oranges, yellows and turquoise (clearly my new favourite colour, it’s all over my home) and see what transpires – in this case a bevy of bright and beautiful combinations that suggest sun, sand and surf.
                                                                                           
                                                                                                                   -Henri