Join this channel to support me and get special access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC40DcEEoRls0xQ-UCJL5twg/join
This one comes from Sue, who lives in the Netherlands and has a beautiful Wedgewood blue and white container she's been wanting to use. She'd gathered a lovely mix of snowberries, honesty, lavender, blue hydrangea, gum nuts and olive — and wanted to know if it was acceptable to combine fresh flowers with dried and artificial elements in the same design.
My answer? Be gone with the rules!
When in doubt, I turn to the late, great Constance Spry — one of the most influential floral designers who ever lived, and a woman who never once worried about such things. To her, everything from the garden, the glasshouse, and the hedgerow was fair game, regardless of season or form. Fresh, dried, artificial — if it worked visually, it worked. Full stop. That philosophy is as relevant today as it ever was.
So today I'm working through Sue's beautiful collection of materials and showing exactly how to bring them together in a design that does that Wedgewood container the justice it deserves.
Sue's materials:
- Wedgewood blue and white container
- Snowberries × 3
- Blue hydrangea × 2 large heads
- Honesty × 4 stems
- Gum nuts × 3
- Lavender × 2 bunches
- Olive
See the video for how I arranged it all.
Happy designing everyone ????
— Astar
