Busy Hands- The Winter Flowers Workshop

We had a wonderful group in the studio for our Winter Flowers Workshop back in January! Focused on sustainable design principals using flowers that are locally available in the winter, each attendee made a gorgeous arrangement. The whole workshop was photographed by Sarah Carpenter, who did an amazing job. I really love how Sarah captured so many hands in action. Watching a person's hands as they create an arrangement is extremely beautiful. I have been fairly obsessed with the parallels between movement and floral design recently, and hands that are actively arranging are a direct crossover. Thank you so much Sarah for capturing so much of this movement in your images!

We are currently planning a couple of workshops for this fall and winter. If you would like to be added to our workshops list, please send an email to kelly@botaniqueflowers.com.

Winter Flowers Workshop Announced!

Winter Flowers Workshop
January 15th, 2017
1-3:30pm at the Botanique Studio

It's winter. Unexpected as it may seem, this is a very exciting time of year for flowers! Bare trees make way for unique, textural berries and branches, fragrance abounds in early spring bulbs like hyacinth and heirloom narcissus, and there are a bevy of local, greenhouse-grown roses- the perfect antidote to winter blues! Join Kelly Sullivan of Botanique for an afternoon of floral arranging in our intimate, South Seattle studio, where you will learn how to create a beautiful, layered arrangement full of movement and texture. Participants will take home their completed arrangement. 

Workshop is open to all levels, and is limited to six participants.

Investment: $275 includes all materials, professional photographs of your arrangement, and light refreshments. 

Registration is live at: http://botanique.bigcartel.com

Winter Flowers

If you have been following our blog for a while, you know that we are BIG on local flowers! And you might wonder what that looks like in the winter, when there isn't nearly as much blooming locally as in other seasons. Hopefully this post will be inspirational for those planning winter weddings, who don't want to skimp on the lush florals, but want to stay local too. In the winter, we source a lot of our blooms from California- not as local as Washington and Oregon, but not too, too far away either. Almost all of the beautiful roses we used in these designs came from Eufloria and Green Valley Floral, two of our favorite sources for California grown roses. We went foraging around Seattle for bush ivy (the ivy that you see growing up all the trees and telephone poles) which has beautiful, midnight blue berries in the winter. Those elements made up the bulk of these designs, with ranunculas, anemone, hyacinth, maidenhair fern, and huckleberry foliage adding extra textures.

All of these beautiful photos were taken by Jennifer Tai. This was our design with MG Davis Events and Vintage Ambiance for Weddings in Woodinville this past January, at JM Cellars. The paper goods were created by The Card Bar. Enjoy!