Last week the first fritillaria maleagris plants of the season were available at the flower market.  Every year I buy several flats from Northwest Fresh, as no one sells these treasures as cut flowers. They are a great choice for woodland arrangements.

Thank you Ted Mishima for these beautiful images! A piece of wood served as container and was decorated with mossy branches, staghorn fern, succulents, tillandsias, ferns, mushrooms, other textures and a few stems of fritillarias.

Join us for a 3 day woodland workshop in the studio in Portland on February 16-18 and learn how to use wooden pieces as containers and much more. For more information or to register, click here.

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So looking forward to teaching the Botanical Couture/ Woodland/Wedding workshop at the Sid Valley Hotel in Devon, England, hosted  by The Academy of Floral Art

Thursday 14th Full Day workshop, Haute Couture Designs

Friday 15th Morning workshop Woodland Designs

Friday 15th Afternoon workshop Bridal Designs

For more information or to register, please go to: https://francoiseweeks.com/francoise-coming-to-england/

Here are some examples of what you will learn.

Thrilled to have been invited by Claire Cowling with Thrive Floristry in Bury St Edmunds in England teach a Botanical Couture/Wedding workshop on May 22 & 23.

For more information and to register please go to https://francoiseweeks.com/francoise-is-coming-to-england/

Here are some examples of what you will learn during this 2 day workshop.

Here are some pictures of the log arrangement that served as the demo piece for the class that I taught at Florabundance , earlier this month. The selection of textures and flowers were fantastic! More on the workshop later this week.

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Last week I made this woodland bouquet as a demo piece for the wedding workshop in the studio.

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The miniature phalaenopsis were the perfect long lasting flower to complement all the textures.

The sides of the shoe were covered with club moss, the sole with cyclamen and the heel with dreacena  and cyclamen leaves – succulent leaves covered the inside of the shoe.

The purse was decorated with succulents, hellebore, hypericum viburnum and sea star fern.

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It was such a thrill when Nacre, a beautiful French flower magazine, contacted me to request images for their spring issue. And it was such a delightful surprise when they chose this image of a botanical headpiece for the cover . Thank you Sarah Pardini for modeling and Ted Mishima for the wonderful image!

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Yesterday I posted pictures of one of the arrangements that Oregon Bride Magazine  had ordered for their booth for the Portland Bridal Show this weekend.

The  structural arrangement that we created was inspired by the design on the cover of the brilliant book: Botanical Art: For Your Eyes Only, by Jo Jarvis and Sarah Horne. Manzanita branches were the support for the ‘chandelier’ part of the structure; and a gnarly old branch was perfect for the vertical element.

photos: Ted Mishima

Oregon Bride Magazine ordered a couple of large arrangements for their booth for the Portland Bridal Show this weekend. It is such a delight when clients  give us carte blanche; thank you Heather!

For years I have decorated endless numbers of small containers with textures, but never a large vessel. I bought the largest French bucket that I could find and covered it with moss. And then I glued hundreds of succulents, berries and blossoms. Patience definitely was a big part of this project…The intricacy of the vessel was off-set by a large bunch of blooming honeysuckle branches. Blooming branches were a bit tricky to come by, but luckily Glenwood Farms had these fabulous bunches. Photographer Ted Mishima came by yesterday to capture these beautiful images. We were lucky that the sun decided to be part of the experience.

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