Winter centerpieces

The winter season is a good time to experiment with other textures in your centerpieces it doesn't have to just be our traditional holiday favorites like evergreens and holly. For your holiday table or your winter weddings...Fruit is FUN!!! look at this cut open papaya, the soft peachy color and black seedy center perfect eye candy. Other fruity favorites are, tangerines, grapes, apples, pears and limes...I also love to use walnuts, Cinnamon sticks or mossy branches....Winter may seem to be cold and barren in the garden, but our table scape's are far from it...make yours abundant, lush, use colored glass or your mothers silver serving bowl as a flower container...its all in the details, use ornaments for favors or napkin rings...express yourself and create memories!!!

Fall Centerpiece

This fall centerpiece I had the pleasure of doing in California, I picked 90% out of my mother in laws garden, yes in November...I found rosemary, Ivy, acorns, verbena, grasses, leaves, pods, and a few beautiful bloomers I was unfamiliar with...I added some roses from the local market and turned her once wood candle holder into a 4ft long rustic thanksgiving centerpiece..You can turn any candle holder into a centerpiece if you have the right mechanics... I filled the holes with a foil lining and added wet oasis, then created each little arrangement to flow into the next to make one cohesive arrangement..add some vines for movement and some sunflowers for show... Since I was unfamiliar with some of the flowers and foliage, and the mechanics were such that it could not hold extra water... I did not expect it to last more than a day, like most event flowers they need to be at full show for only a moment..but to my surprise it was still beautiful when we left for home 4 days later...

Fazio Wedding in the Cutting Garden

I loved all my flowers so much, I can't say it enough!

Brieanne Fazio

Charles and Breyan

The flowers and everything at the Cutting Garden were so amazing. It really made for our perfect day! My family and friends all really loved your gardens as well and I received several compliments on the bouquets. Also, we both really appreciate the lovely floral display honoring Charlie’s mother; it really added something special for us and his family. Once more, Thank you!

Sincerely,

Charles & Breyan Paske

Amy & Andy

Hi Kindryn,

Thank you again for the beautiful flowers you made for our Fort Warden wedding on Sept, 19th. They were absolutely stunning and we got so many compliments. Again thank you so much the flowers were more beautiful than I could have imagined.

Amy Oakley

I found the Picasa photo edit button...having fun playing with my pics....

This is what I am planning on using as my card, I played with the effects and I really like this one...it embodies everything we are trying to do at the cutting garden, amazing variety and texture using garden flowers mixed with the classic wedding varieties to create a "Garden Couture" look...stylish, romantic yet cutting edge..and I read that the the popular color palate range for next season is going to be from plum to violet... give me feed back.....

My Inspiration

This Is my Inspiration...My Best Friend Barb...She passed away a little over a year ago on my Birthday...... She was my friend, my biggest fan, and my never ending source of inspiration in art, flowers and life....Even in death, she continues to inspire and feed my passion...Thank you Barb,,, I love you and miss you....

summer 09

This is one of my bouquets from this summer and one of my favorite pics, the combination of color and texture, roses, sweet peas and gladioli bloosm..makes for a romantic bridal bouquet..the loose petals were just for fun

So Excited!!!

I am so excited to try my hand at blogging.... I have so many wedding pics, pictures of inspiration, thoughts and ideas about flowers,weddings and just keeping you informed about what the floral design guru is up to . I am hoping this blog will be an outlet for me and a fun place to get new ideas and designer inspiration for your wedding...