Thoughtful musings of florists who adore florists and flowers.

Over the past year my admiration for the sweet pea has been growing. I am finding myself using it more and more both as an accent , form and sometimes the focal flower in my bouquets and arrangements. Recently a facebook friend of mine had posted a collection of sweet peas and I was blown [...]

We were named as one of the best blogs to follow by Cathy Hillen-Rulloda & Lynn Martin Freeman in the latest issue of Florists’ Review Magazine! Thank you!!

This is one of my favorite bouquets designed by Holly! For more inspiration visit Holly Chapple’s website.

You may recall the beginning of last week we ran quite a few interviews with the floral designers attending the Chapel Designers Group in NYC. We have a few more interviews to run and will be sharing those today, tomorrow and Friday. Enjoy! PS, if you want to read more about the trip please visit [...]

I recently traveled through Italy on my 18 day honeymoon. The locals were wonderful, the food was fabulous(and pretty), and the flowers were plentiful. I couldn’t help but stop and browse at every flower shop we happened upon. You can’t take the flower enthusiasm out of me, even on vacation. Here is a snippet of [...]

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Alicia Schwede, owner of Bella Fiori in Denver, Colorado
Alicia opened Bella Fiori in March 2003. www.bellafiori.com
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Check out Alicia’s First Book: Bella Bouquets

Chuck Graham, Lead wedding & event designer at Brown Palace Flower Shop
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Check out Alicia’s first floral design book:

Perfect peonies, gorgeous garden roses and sweetest sweet peas are a few of the flowers shown on these pages, affectionately designed into a variety of bridal & bridesmaids bouquets.

Bella Bouquets showcases vibrant full-color photographs of over 100 stylish bouquets. Offering a wide variety of designs including elegant, modern, rustic, traditional, dramatic & romantic.

Bella Bouquets is a 120 page hardcover book measuring 8.5" x 8.5"

Order direct at http://bellabouquetbook.com/ or follow the link below to purchase on Amazon.

Crazy Flower:: Sturt’s Desert Pea

Swainsona formosa, Sturt’s Desert Pea, is an Australian plant in the genus Swainsona, named after English botanist Isaac Swainson, famous for its distinctive blood-red leaf-like flowers, each with a bulbous black centre, or “boss”. It is one of Australia’s best known wildflowers. It is native to the arid regions of central and north-western Australia, and [...]