Every season has something beautiful to offer. Yes, even winter. It is more about the art of noticing than having blooms readily available all the time. What is the energy each season provides? What catches your eye when you are walking through a landscape? What about the meadow coming into bloom every spring actually makes you feel connected to that moment in time? How can we find warmth even on the coldest winter day? These are all the aspects that we want to incorporate into a design honoring the seasons. If you find yourself drifting off in thought about imaginative, large, floral design concepts, but don’t quite know where to start, let’s build them together.

The floral artistry masterclass is intended for people who are either interested in starting their own floral business, or someone who is already practicing, but may be feeling stuck or limited in their design work. I will be offering four masterclasses, each one focusing on a different type of build using seasonal materials. Evergreens and bare branches in the winter. Fluffy grasses, mosses, and wildflowers in the spring. Statement blooms and color in the summer. Changing foliage and golden fern in the fall. The installations will all be built using sustainable floristry methods, and both wild harvested and cultivated materials. The blooms we use will - always - be grown locally, either at Fogwood or by other farms in the area. Classes will be small, so we can all get our hands involved in the creation and troubleshoot any questions you may have. From planning, to installing mechanics, layering in greenery, placing blooms, staging a scene, and getting that perfect picture, we will cover everything.

Fall - Sunday, October 18th from 11:00-3:00 // We saved the best for last, but I may be bias as a floral artist with a dried flower focus. The portal! Your eyes are not deceiving you. Using grapevines, wild vines, and fall foliage branches, we will weave a giant wreath. For support, we will revisit our old friends, dowel and plywood base from the summer build, but other than that this piece will require minimal mechanics. Once the wreath portal is built, it will look beautiful all on its own with the various leaf shapes and colors from the foliage, but we will finish it off by layering in golden fern, dried hydrangeas, grasses, and other dried flowers from my collection. In true Fogwood form, this will be built as a partial wreath, because we worked so hard on weaving the wreath, why hide it? A piece like this can be left up all season, and will offer a unique alternative for fall weddings (which are becoming so popular).