Flower Duet Featured in Florists’ Review Slow Flowers Journal — February 2019 Issue

Flower Duet is fea­tured in an arti­cle in this mon­th’s Florists’ Review magazine.

Flower Duet is pleased to be fea­tured once again in Florists’ Review mag­a­zine as part of the Slow Flow­ers Jour­nal. In this mon­th’s issue on news­stands now, Debra Prinz­ing writes about flo­ral edu­ca­tion inside the move­ment. She fea­tured four flo­ral design­ers and their con­tri­bu­tions to the ways we help edu­cate the pub­lic and the flo­ral enthu­si­ast in dif­fer­ent­ly. The Cole­man Sis­ters (Kit Wertz and Casey Schwartz) of Flower Duet are fea­tured along­side won­der­ful and notable design­ers Ali­cia Schwede of Flir­ty Fleurs Flower Work­shops in Seat­tle, WA, Lau­raLee and Bill Symes of Flow­er­School Port­land in Ore­gon and Dundee and Ian Butch­er of Russ­ian Riv­er Flow­ers Healds­burg, California.

Celebrate The Oscars — Create an Arrangement Inspired by the Gold Statuette

Kit, inspired by this year’s Oscars, made a sus­pend­ed arrange­ment in gold! You can, too, in this mon­th’s free design class from Flower Duet!

A Full Bouquet of Lessons one Stem-At-A-Time

Our Flower Arrang­ing Fri­days series is a per­fect­ly-sized approach to learn­ing the art of flo­ral design. With each mini-class, we’ll show you a tru­ly use­ful flo­ral design tech­nique in a cur­rent flo­ral design style. This class series will keep you won­der­ing what we’ll show you next!

As part of each class, you’ll receive: 
1. A down­load­able PDF list of sup­plies includ­ing the flower recipe.

2. Easy-to-fol­low mini video lessons so you’ll nev­er have to rewind the video to see a step again.

3. Tips and florist secrets to help you be a suc­cess­ful flo­ral arranger!

Part of work­ing in this indus­try is part­ner­ing with oth­ers and it’s won­der­ful when we receive the pho­tos from the pro­fes­sion­al pho­tog­ra­phers. This set of pho­tos was part of a styled pho­to ses­sion to pro­mote the open­ing of the redesigned Rose Gar­den at the South Coast Botan­ic Gar­den in Palos Verdes.

These were tak­en last spring short­ly after the venue fin­ished its long-await­ed redesign, hav­ing now received the pho­tos from the plan­ners, we are hap­py to share them with you.

Flower Duet designed the flow­ers for this styled pho­to ses­sion at the South Coast Botan­ic Gar­den. Pho­to: Sim­ply Adri Photography.

Flower Duet fash­ioned the bou­quet for this styled pho­to ses­sion at the South Coast Botan­ic Gar­den. Pho­to: Sim­ply Adri Photography.

A pret­ty white wed­ding cen­ter­piece by Flower Duet graces the table in the new rose gar­den at the South Coast Botan­ic Gar­den in Palos Verdes. Pho­to: Sim­ply Adri Photography.

Beau­ti­ful bou­quets by Flower Duet in the South Coast Botan­ic Gar­den. Pho­to: Jes­si­ca Eliz­a­beth Photography.

Flower Duet’s mod­ern cen­ter­piece sus­pend­ed in shades of pur­ple. Pho­to by Jes­si­ca Eliz­a­beth Photography.

Our pre­tend bride and groom pose in front of the new entrance to the South Coast Botan­ic Gar­den’s rose gar­den. Flower Duet’s flow­ers and gar­lands enhance the table with pink and pur­ple ros­es. Pho­to by Jes­si­ca Eliz­a­beth Photography.

Flo­ral cake for the gar­den wed­ding cou­ple. Pho­to by Jes­si­ca Eliz­a­beth Photography.

Terrain: Ideas and Inspiration for Decorating the Home and Garden

Edit­ed by Greg Lehmkuhl and the gar­den­ers of TERRAIN

This book sim­ply named, Ter­rain, is a per­fect segue into spring with ideas for dec­o­rat­ing your home with fresh plants and flow­ers. We love all our flo­ral design books, but it’s also nice to have inpsir­a­tion for home liv­ing from a book! ShopTerrain.com is a web­site we often will look to for gift ideas for flow­ers lovers.

From Ama­zon:

“Found­ed in a his­toric nurs­ery in south­east Penn­syl­va­nia, Ter­rain is a nation­al­ly renowned gar­den, home, and lifestyle brand with an entire­ly fresh approach to liv­ing with nature. It’s an approach that bridges the gap between home and gar­den, the indoors and the out­doors. An approach that embraces dec­o­rat­ing with plants and invit­ing the gar­den into every liv­ing space.

Ter­rain, the book, not only cap­tures the brand’s unique and lush­ly appeal­ing sen­si­bil­i­ty in over 450 beau­ti­ful pho­tographs but also shows, in project after project, tip after tip, how to live with nature at home. Here are ideas for flower arrang­ing beyond the expect­ed bou­quet, using branch­es and wild blooms, seed heads and bulbs. Ten col­or­ful con­tain­er gar­dens inspired by painter­ly palettes. Dozens of ideas for mak­ing wreaths out of vines, dried stems, ever­greens, and fresh leaves and fern fronds (which you learn to pre­serve in glyc­erin). Here are secrets for forc­ing branch­es to bloom in the mid­dle of win­ter. Dec­o­rat­ing with heir­loom pump­kins, includ­ing turn­ing them into table­top planters. Sim­ple touches—like mass­ing high-sum­mer hydrangeas into weath­ered bas­kets and scat­ter­ing them around the patio—and more involved projects, includ­ing tak­ing inspi­ra­tion from Scan­di­navia and Britain to cre­ate a tru­ly nat­ur­al Christmas.

With inspi­ra­tion for every sea­son, Ter­rain blurs the indoors and out to bring the sub­tle and sur­pris­ing joys of nature into our lives every day.”

Each Jan­u­ary we revamp our stu­dio and this week I took a few snap­shots of one part of a wall. I had fun with some left­over flow­ers and used a new item that came as a sam­ple in the mail called a Quicup. See all about it in our tool sec­tion below!

Flower Duet’s wall redesign. This is just one small part of our stu­dio redesign. We’ll fea­ture a new part each month! Pho­to by Kit Wertz

It’s fun to make flow­ers for our online class and then dis­play them in our stu­dio! This is from our free class this month — Oscars flow­ers! Pho­to by Kit Wertz.

We had a nice woman stop by our stu­dio and donate her flower design library! Pho­to by Kit Wertz

We’ve com­bined some of her books with ours and put them in our wall for stu­dents to use! The mossy con­tain­er is from this mon­th’s in-stu­dio class where stu­dents learn how to dec­o­rate con­tain­ers with organ­ic mate­ri­als. like moss and dried flowers.

Tussie Mussie hold­ers on the right are with a nice gold­en col­lec­tion of Ranun­cu­lus blooms and an antique-like con­tain­er from Shin­o­da Design Cen­ter. Pho­to by Kit Wertz.

If you have a flo­ral shop and need a new idea to cov­er those plant pots, this might be your answer. I could also see these being used as par­ty favors to house flow­ers, too!

Quicups are a new twist on plant decor. You can choose a pat­tern or cre­ate your own pat­tern, brand it, or include a mes­sage, too! Find out more infor­ma­tion at the Temkin PPC web­site at www.gotemkin.com.

Quicup with a pot inside. Pho­to by Kit Wertz.

Quicup with a suc­cu­lent on dis­play inside. Pho­to by Kit Wertz.

Quicup in a Christ­mas theme. Pho­to by Kit Wertz.