In June, an English couple living in Australia, chose the Valpolicella region to celebrate their wedding. They fell in love with an amazing historical villa set amongst vineyards near Verona and Lake Garda. She wanted a natural, yet romantic mood and style, for all the floral decorations. The palette she chose was white, green with a touch of light lilac.
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An intimate autumn Wedding in the Valpolicella hills of Verona
In october a Brazilian couple, made their dream of love come true together with relatives and friends. They chose a rustic location nestled in the hills of Valpolicella, a stone’s throw away from Verona and Lake Garda. The courtyard, paved with Pum stone, climbing vines and autumn foliage, was the perfect setting for the entire day.
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A Summer Wedding in a Provençal palette
The lovely couple Francesca and Marco, celebrate their wedding near Verona. The floral wedding arrangements are in a summer Provençal style. For the tablescape floral design I recreate a summer flower garden in the delicate Provençal palette of lilac, pink, white and a touch of deep burgundy.
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Total White for an Elegant Wedding in the Vineyard Valley of Valpolicella
A very sweet German couple, chose the beautiful vineyard valley of Valpolicella in the North of Italy, near Lake Garda, for their wedding. The bride chose a total white palette in different shades for the day’s elegant floral scenography.
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A Modern Natural style Wedding near Verona
In the early days of last September, Natalie and Julius, a young couple from Holland, celebrated their wedding in an Italian countryside villa near Verona. They loved this venue for the very romantic atmosphere and amazing view over the hills. Natalie wanted a modern, natural look for her wedding floral decorations, to highlight the style of the Italian villa.
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4 Summer Flowers for a White Wedding on Lake Garda
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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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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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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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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A warm floral festive table
Christmas decoration. For this festive table I chose a very delicate palette of pure white, dusty pink and a touch of blue violet. For the greenery I opted for different shades of bottle and silver green.
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A rustic-boho wedding
An enchanting country house set amongst olive grove and vineyards in the Verona hills to celebrate a love story. Rustic-boho style wedding . Olive branches and white flowers for all floral decorations
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An impressionist garden in the Tuscan hills
An impressionist slow flower farmer in Tuscany
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Greenery 15-343 colour of the year!
Each November Pantone Color Institute choose the colour which will influence fashion, design and weddings for the following year.
I love the motivation and definition that Pantone gave for this year’s choice: Greenery is a fresh and zesty yellow-green shade that evokes the first days of spring when nature’s greens revive, restore and renew. Illustrative of flourishing foliage and the lushness of the great outdoors, the fortifying attributes of Greenery signals consumers to take a deep breath, oxygenate and reinvigorate.
If you are going to get married this year, Greenery will be very easy to add to your moodboard. You could either choose just a green palette or add it to the other colours. In addition to the classical and timeless white and green combination, there are many other possibilities: take a look at this link.
Talking about flowers, there is quite a choice, here are some that have interesting shades of green:
- Carnation “prado”, annual
- Light green eustoma, best time spring &summer
- Rose from Ecquador, annual
- Light green hydrangea, spring&summer
- Chrysanthemum “froggy”, annual
- Snowball, May
- St. John’s Wort green, annual
- Alchemilla, annualAmni, spring&summer
- Blue throatwort, annual
- Dianthus tricky, annual
Finally green is perfect for any style you choose for your wedding: from modern to romantic, from elegant to natural.
Have a look at the moodboard I created to get some inspiration. Have you already decided about your wedding moodboard? Tell me about your choices.
May blossoming in my garden and terrace
May is an awesome month for my garden and terrace, every day there is surprise awaiting. I’ve been watching the peony bush for some days and just yesterday the first white flower blossomed. There is such a lot of life within it, ants are running up and down its branches and insect are nestling among the petals.
A poppy with its delicate red petal has just blossomed and I really don’t know where the seed came from.
The plants that we chose for the terrace are growing very well.
The green wall that we created is fully blossomed: in April the Osmanthus plants were a perfumed white cloud and now all the roses are opening up. There are different rose plants and each one has its own distinctive colour and perfume. The huses range from pale white to deep purple. The perfume from the white roses is very delicate whereas that of the deep purple ones is so rich and timeless. These roses remind me of the English garden ones which I really love.
The seeds that we planted in early March are growing beautifully. We planted some sweet peas, nigella and cornockles, but we have to wait patiently to see them bloom.
The herbs are coming on splendidly and the first strawberries were delicious.
Yellow, pink and red roses run along the garden fence. Like paint from an artist’s palette splashes of colour brighten every corner of the garden.
On Sunday afternoon I was sitting on the terrace in the shade reading an article about the use of the rose in the cosmetic industry. I discovered that the rose it the most studied flower by biologists and botanists. The only two roses that are used in this sector are the antique cabbage rose and the damask rose. The cabbage rose is cultivated in the South of France and Morocco in the valley of roses and I strongly recommend that you go there! The damask rose comes from Turkey and Bulgaria. Elisabeth de Feydau, professor of the Ecole of Perfumiers of Versailles, describes the scent of the cabbage rose : as herbaceous, poudrè and gourmand. The damask rose however has a fruitier scent with notes of litchi, raspberry, geranium and verbena.
Still on the same topic have a look at the video about the “Rose of Grainville” which was coultivated for the first time in Grainville in Normandy by the Dior. The villa and garden became a museum in 1997.
That’s all for now. I’ll be back next month to tell you how white lavender and seeds are coming along.
DECORATE A TERRACE ON THE LAKE #1
We are off to the garden market with Giovanni, a botanist and a garden designer. We are choosing the most suitable plants for the terrace on the lake.
This terrace will become a relax corner, a heaven of peace and tranquility.
Giovanni and I decided to create two green areas. On the terrace there were already some plants: hellebourus, nadina, skimmia , roses, tulips bulbs, muscari and hyacinth. We chose some perennials, herbs, shrubs, grass family and some flower seeds.
Our aim was to have flowers all year round. All these plants like sun and half shade, need general topsoil and are very easy to take care of.
We selected some herbs with different foliage: variegated thyme with small green/gold leaves, red mint whose leaves are nearly marsala red, lemon balm, basil and oregano.
Not forgetting a small presents for elves: wild strawberries...
Lavender was a must so we picked two varieties: the wild pink lavender which is already in bloom and the white edelweiss. I’m very curious about the white one as it’s the first time that I’ve seen it.
It was love at first sight with the wild Stipa bush with its flowing dancing mane (I noticed that Hermes used it in a recent advert).
In the last few decades the grass family has become more and more and popular. Many international garden designers love these shrubs as they need little care and water. They are exuberant all year around and breathtaking in winter when covered in frost.
If you happen to go to Lake Iseo this summer, the village of Paratico has a beautiful area of dancing grasses near the lake front. Don’t miss the “The Floating Piers” created by the Bulgarian artist Christo From the 18th June to the 3rd July.
We thought of integrating some Osmanthus shrubs with the roses to create a green wall. The Osmanthus is a frost resistant, perennial plant, with a white spring blossom.
We added a touch of China with the Rosalita Moscata which has 5 petals and an amazing light perfume.
With our treasure of plants and seeds we headed for the lake to plant them.
We put the Bacsac pots near some old ones of different sizes. A few red pots were added to give it a splash of colour.
See you next month!
