Selection of designs for the demos during the workshop at Filoli last June. pocket boutonnier  

I was thrilled to be invited to teach a 2 day wedding workshop at Filoli in the San Francisco area early this summer. It is such an amazing estate with glorious gardens where classes of a wide variety of subjects are taught all year.  It was another opportunity to go to the San Francisco Flower […]

It was such an honor to be invited last fall by the Florida State Florist Association to do an on stage program, and teach to a hands-on workshop at their annual convention in Orlando in June 2015. The presentation on woodlands and botanical couture and the workshop were sponsored by  BloomNet.The topic of the workshop was […]

Demo pieces for the workshop in Devon, England – hosted by the Academy of Floral Art. Photos: Katie Collins Model: Lilia Darling Day 1: Botanical Couture

The second day of the workshop we focused on woodland bouquets and  log arrangements. Once again, the designs were fantastic! Much gratitude goes to the team at the Academy of Floral Art for the wonderful organization  & to Katie Collins for taking great pictures of everyone’s work. I wanted to thank Smithers Oasis for sponsoring […]

Last October Susan McLeary with Passionflower hosted a workshop in her studio. The day before the workshop we went to Susan’s favorite flower farm and nursery where we gathered a fabulous selection of flowers, plants and textures. The second day all the exquisite and detailed designs that the students had created were modeled by Nia […]

What a great wedding workshop it was in the studio the first week of April! The quaint studio is perfect for an intimate setting for a small group and as always, students came  from several regions in the country: Texas, Colorado and Iowa. It was the first time since last fall that we had access […]

The first workshop, hosted by Green Mountain Floral Supply,Inc in Burlington, VT was the 3 day wedding workshop.  A fantastic group of 20 talented designers participated; a handful of them were also flower farmers. Students made woodland arrangements, wreaths and long arrangements, designed in cones and european bouquet holders  and also made flower crowns and […]

Thank you Ashley Largesse for the images of the demos that I made for the workshops at Green Mountain Floral Supply in Burlington, VT. And thank you Jayson Munn for all your help! botanical headpiece

Last year Olympia Frangos, with Allium by  Olympia in Mexico City invited me to teach a woodland/botanical couture workshop in her studio in Mexico City. In February my friend Jo Jarvis and I went down south and we had the best experience teaching 28 very enthusiastic and talented students ; it was my first experience […]