Last September, in a country venue surrounded by olives and vineyards on Lake Garda near Verona, I created the florals for a lovely Italian couple living in London. Since the location had that countryside vibe Greta, chose a timeless green and white palette and a natural romantic style.
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A Joyful Summer Wedding in an Italian Countryside Villa
For this summer wedding the bride told me she wanted a joyful, relaxed vibe for her big day. The couple chose a romantic countryside villa near Verona, with a dreamlike wood. The colours that expressed her vision best were: bright orange, sunny yellow, shades of pink, combined with a touch of delicate peach and white.
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3 Perfect Palettes for your Wedding with Pantone 2024
Being January I always like to start the year with Pantone’s chosen colour. Peach fuzz’ is this year’s choice. Three colours schemes that Iike most
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5 Summer Flowers for an Amazing Bridal Bouquet
In September I created the wedding floral decorations for a sweet, young couple. The bride Siè was from Colombia and the groom Patrick, from Germany. Being an international couple with friends and family coming from all over the world, they decided to celebrate their union in romantic Italy. Siè and Patrick immediately fell in love with the location, a very dreamy estate near lake Garda, set amongst vineyards and olives.
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The Manhattan Flower market in New York
As soon as I found out that there was a Flower market in New York, I immediately decided to put it on my bucket list!So I organized my expedition to leave bright and early 6.30 am. I was so excited as I approached West 28th, I had butterflies in my stomach!
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Iconic New York
In October I was lucky enough to visit iconic New York and its incredible vibe amazed me in a thousand ways!
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An Italian wedding in Verona with flowers, herbs and fruit
Last May Georgina and Freddie, a lively English couple, decided to celebrate their wedding in Verona.The couple wanted a very romantic and Italian country style reminiscent of a lighthearted summer Italian day .The dinner decoration was a mix with herbs, dried flowers, peaches and apricots.
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An amazing wine event with flowers, fruit and vegetables
At the beginning of April the well known Verona wine fair was held. I was asked to create a floral backdrop for three soirees in a magnificent Renaissant villa nestled in the Valpolicella vineyards. The palette was lively colourful mixing flowers, fruit and vegetables.
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4 colour palettes for my Design week in Milan
This year I show you my Design week in Milan with 4 colour palettes: lively, earth, pink and light blue.
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14 perfect flowers for the 2023 pantone!
Being January I always like to start the year with Pantone’s chosen colour. ‘Viva Magenta’ is this year’s choice and I absolutely love it!
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3 ideas to create a flower bar for your event
In this post I would like to explain my creative approach in creating 3 themes for a unique flower bar. For the different themed creations I gathered images to make mood-boards and then carefully chose each colour palette. The first step was to gather images to create some moodboards and then I chose the colour palette. Only after these two steps I developed the three different themes.
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7 flowers for a unique autumnal bouquet
Early in October I organized a one-day floral master-class in a former industrial space. In this first post I’ll talk to you about the autumnal bouquet we created.For this floral arrangement I was inspired by the image of ‘a young barefoot woman in a small garden picking flowers for her bouquet!’. The style and mood was bohemian but with my own personal twist.
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Intensive floral workshop spring 2022 in Milan
In March I organized the spring intensive two day floral workshop in Milan in an amazing space . Over the weekend the focus is both on practice and theory. Two awesome days among spring flowers learning the basic of floral design
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10 perfect wedding flowers with Pantone 2021 colours
Pantone 2021 for weddings palette. What do you think about this colour combination for your wedding? You could choose just one of the two tones, or add a third colour such as lilac, very trendy this year, or even a touch of delicate light pink.
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intensive floral workshop in Milan
Last March I organised the intensive floral workshop in the heart of Milan. Two intensive floral design workshop. Theory, tips and practice with flowers creating bouquet and floral arrangments
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4 pink combinations for your Christmas table
Inspirational shoot for Christmas, the setting and design of a table in pink palette with vintage pieces. Flowers and winter green
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Today I want to tell you about Martina and Alessandro, a young sweet couple who got married in January. Their desire was to have an elegant, romantic wedding in the delicate tones of white and light pink. Light pink was the main colour of their day: from the invitation cards, the party favors, right dowun to the bride’s shoes...
THE CHURCH
The romanesque parish church of San Giorgio Ingannapoltron was chosen, which was located in the beautiful wine area of Valpolicella. From the little churchyard, there was a stunning view of Lake Garda. The church itself with its little cloister is built from local stone and has a clear cut design. The couple wanted the floral decorations to be soft and graceful. I suggested flowers with a roundish corolla. The traditional winter flowers anemones and ranunculus were perfectly matched with the elegance of white roses and the softness of baby’s wreath. Seeing als Christmas wasn’t very far away I decided to choose dark green buxus to use in all the creations.
THE BRIDAL BOUQUET
Martina, picked a very romantic wedding gown with an ample tulle skirt. The perfect choice of flower for her bridal bouquet was light pink cloni ranunculus. The cloni ranunculus started to become popular a few years ago and is an absolute must for a winter weddings. This particular flower has all the elegance of an English garden rose and the beauty of a peony. The older they get the more beautiful they become; the blossom opens up more and more to reveal their silken petals.
WINTER FLOWERS
Just another word about anemones and ranunculus. Anemones are effervescent flowers with their black centres and the their delicate silk like petals. You’ll be spoiled for choice by the vast array of colours to choose from. Pillar box red to deep burgundy and right down to every shade of purple. There is a lot to write about ranunculus check out my blog for more information about varieties and colours.
Which flower do you go for in winter? Drop me a line and let me know!
A special thanks to Martina and Alessandro and to Sergio Sarnicola the photographer for his outstanding work. (Some of the photos are mine which I took during the preparation)
Ranunculus
Ranunculus: pure poetry, a very feminine flower with layers upon layers of silky petals.
The latin name is “Ranuncolus Asiaticus”. This flower is also known as spring rose.
Ranunculus begin to appear in the flower markets in December through to the end of May. When you see them all together at the flower market, it’s really impressive and so awesome. It’s one of the few flowers that are still grown in Italy and exported.
There are so many hues and colors: from pure white to wine red, from pale pink to energetic fucsia from orange to soft cream and last but not least bright shades of yellow.
Let’s not forget about the many different types of ranunculus such as the classical, the pom–pom, the cappuccino and the magnificent cloni varieties.
The ranunculus cloni with its bigger than average head started to appear at the flower markets a few years ago. It’s produced in Sanremo where it was created.
The ranunculus is perfect for a bridal bouquet. The ranunculus cloni in particular has all the elegance of an English garden rose and the beauty of peonies.
The older they get the more beautiful they become; the blossom opens up more and more to reveal their silken petals.
This seemingly fragile and delicate flower is surprisingly hardy. The standard variety can last about 7 days while the cloni one up to 14 to 21 days. A tip: don’t put more than 5 fingers of water in the vase otherwise the stem will become rotten. When the blossom becomes very heavy, cut it very short and leave it floating in a glass so you can still enjoy it.
