Favorite filler
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marigold
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I tend to use filler as its own identity. I make most all of my designs using all
lush flowers, and use foliages and fillers as an accent. So, I may use one berry stem,
one or two solidago, but, rarely do designs using the filler or foliages as my start.
I tend to cluster my blooms in groups to get a full look.
In the summer though, I do like the wildflower look and vase up lots of
designs using just fillers and lots of different kinds of fillers , like QAL,
solidago, Blue Maine, tissue statice, yarrow, trachillium, hypericum,
fresh grasses and wheat, thistle I call it "Sweetie Weedie".
Seasonals
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Toddxxx
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I selected limonium - why? Because it's pretty and long lasting.
I do like Geraldton Wax (I believe this is what you guys call Wax or Wax Flower), but the last couple of years the quality has been disappointing and it is a water hog so I prefer not to use it in Oasis.
Also, the smell takes me back to the High School gym, where there were many Geraldton Wax bushes - not great memories
Oh and I LOVE hypericum, but it is expensive here and the berries make a mess when they drop, which is a turn-off for customers
I do like Geraldton Wax (I believe this is what you guys call Wax or Wax Flower), but the last couple of years the quality has been disappointing and it is a water hog so I prefer not to use it in Oasis.
Also, the smell takes me back to the High School gym, where there were many Geraldton Wax bushes - not great memories
Oh and I LOVE hypericum, but it is expensive here and the berries make a mess when they drop, which is a turn-off for customers
When I was at Chatham Cape Cod this weekend I took a stroll down to the beach. There was bush upon bush of rose bushes FULL of perfect green rose hips that were the size of quarters. Oh my, if I lived there I could make a job out of harvesting, and the Hydrangea? OMG, everywhere.
Katie, do you know the name of that variety of rose bush?
Katie, do you know the name of that variety of rose bush?
Lizi
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The filler I love the most is the one the customer purchases.
Ya know... everyone likes a little azz once in a while but nobody likes a smartazz! lol
Tim - North Port Floral
Thom I'm guessing the rose bush was a rugosa rose. Were the flowers a nice pink? Or all white? Yup - those would be rugosa roses. Grow everywhere by the sea. Lovely fragrance too.
alisonm1215
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Lepto, white lepto--
This has to be my all time favorite-- Wish I could get it always-- It looks so pretty and rich-- almost like popcorn popping on the apricot tree...It drapes and looks so nice.
Love the smell of genestra, and boronia in limited quantities-- too much is too much.
I like to sculpt shapes out of wild BB It's fun-- I've been motivated to make some clouds for the top of the shop-- inside hangin from the rafters-- They'll dry and loook nice as well as give the spiders somewhere to live.
I like spray liatris-- not the big stuff that looks like a toilet brush-- and I also like something we call here red bottle brush-- any of the bushy leucodendrons add a nice touch, and last so well. Pepperberry is so beautiful when available, and I love the monte and belgi asters in spray form-- if it werent for the brown leaves-- so soon. I love rose hips and berries, and whish they where more available year round.
and I am very endeared to the romantic feel of queen annes lace-- It's just so @@@@ fickle-- sometimes it lasts for weeks-- sometimes days. but it's one of those relationships. We did spray some gold and silver for a christmas "high tea" centerpice and used 80 cm super green roses and dark purple florigenes with white orientals and all sorts of foilage to create a huge design for the top of a mache tree trunk adorned with " bejewled" heels and such-- Oh it turned out so whimsical and festive. We set the table with vintage mismatched china, and put the tea saucers on elevated lifts-- (by attaching candlesticks to the botoms. It was indeed a sight--- but the queen annes lace sure stole the show.
enough of that-- I think I still would take white lepto any day as my all time 1st choice though.
best wishes mrflowermarket
This has to be my all time favorite-- Wish I could get it always-- It looks so pretty and rich-- almost like popcorn popping on the apricot tree...It drapes and looks so nice.
Love the smell of genestra, and boronia in limited quantities-- too much is too much.
I like to sculpt shapes out of wild BB It's fun-- I've been motivated to make some clouds for the top of the shop-- inside hangin from the rafters-- They'll dry and loook nice as well as give the spiders somewhere to live.
I like spray liatris-- not the big stuff that looks like a toilet brush-- and I also like something we call here red bottle brush-- any of the bushy leucodendrons add a nice touch, and last so well. Pepperberry is so beautiful when available, and I love the monte and belgi asters in spray form-- if it werent for the brown leaves-- so soon. I love rose hips and berries, and whish they where more available year round.
and I am very endeared to the romantic feel of queen annes lace-- It's just so @@@@ fickle-- sometimes it lasts for weeks-- sometimes days. but it's one of those relationships. We did spray some gold and silver for a christmas "high tea" centerpice and used 80 cm super green roses and dark purple florigenes with white orientals and all sorts of foilage to create a huge design for the top of a mache tree trunk adorned with " bejewled" heels and such-- Oh it turned out so whimsical and festive. We set the table with vintage mismatched china, and put the tea saucers on elevated lifts-- (by attaching candlesticks to the botoms. It was indeed a sight--- but the queen annes lace sure stole the show.
enough of that-- I think I still would take white lepto any day as my all time 1st choice though.
best wishes mrflowermarket
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