Fleurisse Design (2025)

27/01/2025

It feels so weird to think about summer in winter and spring in the fall, but we are always planning seasons ahead. The more I grow the more it happens, because you’re often shopping long before it’s time to plant, and when it’s time to plant you’re still 90-120 days out from flowers - growing is a long game.

It’s currently rose bare root season, dahlia war season (if you ever need proof that supply and demand can make the cost of specific colors of a flower go crazy in price, try shopping a tuber sale) and I’m staring at the ranunculus in my garden which don’t even have buds yet trying to figure out where everything is going to go.

1. Rose Toscano - depending on the weather she can sometimes lean more orange

2. Distant Drums - she looks like this for about 2 days before fading to blush. Wicked thorny.

3. Peaches n Cream - mine leans extra blushy

4. From top, clockwise: Rock Run Ashley, Rose Toscano, Distant Drums, Koko Loko, and an older Koko Loko (maybe 2-3 days apart?)

26/01/2025

Dreaming of a lush floral aisle but working within a thoughtful budget? … Let’s talk strategy.

When it comes to creatively working a floral budget to maximize impact, one of the first places I look to move flowers from is the aisle. While I absolutely love the look of a full, lush aisle—perfect for your grand entrance and giving your guests the feeling of sitting in a meadow—it’s also one of the areas we can rework creatively so you can bring some more impact elsewhere.

If we need to move flowers around, my first recommendation is to keep a pair of arrangements at the back of the aisle. These create a beautiful frame for photos that include your guests. Next, I suggest a pair at the front of the aisle (four arrangements total). These not only extend the ceremony arch, pulling flowers toward your guests for visual balance, but also anchor the space beautifully.

If the budget allows for more, six or eight aisle arrangements spaced evenly can create a gorgeous impact. The look we create depends on the overall vision you’re going for! The exception to this is a meandering aisle. To make the design feel intentional and not messy, you’ll need enough aisle pieces to trace the shape fully.

Would you go for a full aisle, or would you consider these creative alternatives to make room in the budget for other statement pieces like a cake nest, a show-stopping bar installation, or even a dramatic hanging design? Tell me in the comments!

16/01/2025

Throwback to a favorite from Mother’s Day, all grown in my garden that somehow never made it on the grid.

Not a bud in sight right now, just lush green growth, but these are some of the varieties I regrow each year because I fell in love with them. I let them turn brown and crispy before giving up the bed, and collect the seeds and corms they produce for the next year. Sometimes they just sit in a paper bag, when something new catches my eye that I want to grow instead, and then a year passes without them and I find I missed them, and pull them back out, like a shoebox of memories.

Garden dreaming usually starts up to a year in advance, when I meet a flower in bloom and add it to my list of things I want to grow. I start them from seed, bulb or corm, babying them for 3-9 months before seeing the first blooms I can cut, fighting weeds and pests, reluctant to spray anything.

They start as a little trickle, impatiently watching those buds each day that seem to always be “almost there”, waiting for enough to make a small arrangement. Is it the right color for that next event? Usually not - maybe those flowers finished a week ago, or the bride booked me too late for me to source seeds, or no beds had room and I had already committed them to something else I wanted to grow. Often they’re just for me, or friends we are going to see that weekend, or design workshops in my studio, or the occasional elopement bouquet where the bride doesn’t require a specific color story and just wants the most beautiful and fresh flowers the season has to offer. But when they coincide with a wedding, in the right color, at the right time, it’s like the universe smiled on us to say it was meant to be that way, and invariably the flowers that my clients find the most special. It turns out you CAN feel the love put into flowers by their grower.

I’ve been adding more varieties, and want to teach out of the garden more this year. As blooms get closer watch out for workshop dates so you can meet these beauties in person 🫶

Ranunculus Champagne, Purple Jean, Cloni Grand Pastel, Cloni Hanoi, Sweet Pea Naomi Nazareth, Rose David Austin Ambridge Rose & Roald Dahl, CA Poppy Thai silk

16/01/2025

Throwback to a favorite from Mother’s Day, all grown in my garden that somehow never made it on the grid.

Not a bud in sight right now, just lush green growth, but these are some of the varieties I regrow each year because I fell in love with them. I let them turn brown and crispy before giving up the bed, and collect the seeds and corms they produce for the next year. Sometimes they just sit in a paper bag, when something new catches my eye that I want to grow instead, and then a year passes without them and I find I missed them, and pull them back out, like a shoebox of memories.

Garden dreaming usually starts up to a year in advance, when I meet a flower in bloom and add it to my list of things I want to grow. I start them from seed, bulb or corm, babying them for 3-9 months before seeing the first blooms I can cut, fighting weeds and pests, reluctant to spray anything.

They start as a little trickle, impatiently watching those buds each day that seem to always be “almost there”, waiting for enough to make a small arrangement. Is it the right color for that next event? Usually not - maybe those flowers finished a week ago, or the bride booked me too late for me to source seeds, or no beds had room and I had already committed them to something else I wanted to grow. Often they’re just for me, or friends we are going to see that weekend, or design workshops in my studio, or the occasional elopement bouquet where the bride doesn’t require a specific color story and just wants the most beautiful and fresh flowers the season has to offer. But when they coincide with a wedding, in the right color, at the right time, it’s like the universe smiled on us to say it was meant to be that way, and invariably the flowers that my clients find the most special. It turns out you CAN feel the love put into flowers by their grower.

I’ve been adding more varieties, and want to teach out of the garden more this year. As blooms get closer watch out for workshop dates so you can meet these beauties in person 🫶

05/01/2025

What makes a dream client?

From our first consultation we knew we were on the same page. It’s often hard for brides to articulate what calls to them in a photo - you just like it! Caroline sent me some images that were close to her vision, but also most helpfully told me which she liked the best. I then told her why I also thought that design was the best: well balanced shape, not too tight, lacy around the edges, and subtle colors (because blush and blue can easily veer to into baby shower vibes if you don’t get the right shades!) and we both knew we right then that we were aesthetically aligned. Caroline then just trusted me and my team to bring her vision to life. We had far fewer emails than many of my other weddings, but she left me with more time and energy to sweat the details on her behalf and just make it happen - we take that trust *very* seriously and always go the extra mile for the clients who show us that trust!

She also generously left me the kindest testimonial to help other couples discover my business and better evaluate if we would be the right fit. If you’d like to read it I’ve dropped the link in my stories today 😊

A 5 star experience for bride and florist alike!

➡️If you would like to work together this year, click the link in my bio to inquire.

Photographer: capturing that freakin gorgeous veil and professionally overcoming the challenging lighting at this venue! Believe me, my iPhone struggled hard here and these shots are so beautiful.

30/12/2024

Just kidding 😂 I am majorly shaking things up this year…more details coming soon 🤫 but keep it on the down low, because I am so excited for the designs we are dreaming up for our 2025 brides and would prefer we not have another global pandemic.

23/12/2024

We are featured on today!! So proud of the team that brought this fairytale wedding to life for I&A. It takes a huge village to produce a wedding and planned everything to a tee!

The soft sunset hues were beautifully reflected in the peach and lavender flower palette. Locally grown garden roses, didiscus, heirloom chrysanthemums and xeranthemum couldn’t be more special.

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09/12/2024

Dusty rose tones never go out of style. For C+D’s reception centerpieces 🫶 I love the tiny fan place cards with their tiny gold tassels!

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14/11/2024

There’s a smoky dusky shade in every color, and I’m here for them ✨

I also love that we pulled the traditional red and gold (with a modern twist of course) into the bouquet, which stood out beautifully against her bespoke Ao Dai.

11/11/2024

Did the phrase “cute as a button” come from these teeny little button mums?

08/11/2024

Headed into the weekend this fall looking forward to getting together with your favorite people 🍂🍁

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06/11/2024

Don’t let your sweetheart table design be an after thought!

I had been getting bored of the sweetheart inspo out there. Everything out there felt the same, yet a little awkward and poorly balanced. I have a design my past couples love if they were planning to repurpose a larger ceremony setup, but I really wanted to try something different for C+D. This foam free design is made up of three separate long and low arrangements, letting it follow the curve of the half-round and give the effect of a little meadow without taking up too much space, and always avoiding letting lush turn into chunky (my pet peeve!). I gave little moments to the hellebore to show off their (rare and hard to find!) height, a small cascade of lisianthus to frame the signage, the swooping curves of fritillaria, silky petals of butterfly ranunculus and the sweet fragrance of freesia. Special love to the twinkle lights and asymmetric draping in this design

The hardest part about a design like this is transportation since the containers are so shallow, we make sure to top it back up first thing after unloading, and making sure every single stem was in water - always a balancing act between how low profile a design can be and how much the flowers will drink through the course of a day.

Swipe through to see from both the guest and couple’s view of this design, and my simple foam free mechanics at the end.

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30/10/2024

I’ve been obsessed with the deep turquoise tile and velvet lounge furniture . I love how it contrasts the dogwood and butterfly ranunculus with colors that are hard to bring in through flowers, but the complementary colors really make them pop!

The bar is always a great place to add a bit of drama ❤️ can we go bigger and more dramatic? I’m glad you asked!

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25/10/2024

To dig, or not to dig? 🤔

What’s your favorite from this year’s flowering class?

1: Cafe au Lait Mini from
2: Peaches n Cream (extra blushy less orange) from
3: Cafe au Lait, Peaches n Cream and Alpenglow Zinnias. You can see how “mini” compares right at the end of the video - the center tends to be more closed and the petals less twirly. She is also less clockface, less heavy, and has way longer thin strong stems than the original which is a major plus for design work.
4: Rose Toscano from a small very productive blood-orange ball form
5: floret bee’s choice seedling - the color is interesting but the form is lacking so I probably won’t keep it

I have several others that barely flowered all season because they were planted pretty late, so I will need to wait until next year to meet them.

The vast majority of my dahlias are done flowering, although several plants I cut deeply from still have some new growth. In my almost frost free zone 9b (a whopping 338 day growing season per the Farmer’s Almanac) we can actually leave these in the ground and just cut them back. Many of our growers just a couple hours away DO get a real frost though, and I am seeing many stories wrapping up their season.

My criteria:
Dig if I want to divide for more plants/to share with friends/very nervous about losing them.
Dig if I want the bed space they are in for something else

Leave them if they’re not in a spot I immediately want to replant into or have multiples (digging some and leaving some).

Dig and give away/compost anything I am not into that I won’t regrow.

Fellow 9b gardeners, what do you do?

22/10/2024

Always here for an earthy neutral palette. 🦌🕊️

When your bride in her custom gown is just stunning🔥🔥🔥

Belle Époque tulips, white majolica, sweet pea, spiraea, freesia, muscari, hellebore.

Always fuss free with gorgeous drape, bias cut signature sheer silk ribbon by has become a favorite.

17/10/2024

Why DO I share individual varieties, when in my process I actually select 90-100% of the flowers for my clients? In pictures it can be hard to tell, but in person you realize these flowers are SO different to design with! Their thorns, their stem strength, their smell, the rate they open. As a designer and grower I always crave these kinds of detailed comparisons and think it is helpful for the industry when selecting for breeding traits, what to grow, what to choose when designing!

For clients who already have decision fatigue, they just want to hire someone who knows the necessary details to take that off their plate, that they trust to know the differences and to *care* about how these mountains of small decisions affect the overall aesthetic of their event. Every time I shop the flower market or walk a nursery I’m doing research, and with new varieties constantly being released it’s like an endless river of new possibilities.

1. Bolero: I love this stage when she first unfurls and still has a touch of creamy blush. A day later and her petals turn a crisp white. Oh and she smells divine!

2: Desdemona - she might be my favorite for fragrance! She has more of a cupped shape, reminiscent of a puffy peony bud, and usually blooms in sprays. My Desdemona plants are more mature so I don’t think it’s fair to compare productivity, but she really pumps them out.

3. Tranqulity is more of a cream, and doesn’t contain blush in the early stages. She has prettiest quartered centers, but almost no fragrance. Not growing her because scent is high on my garden priorities (how else do I get the husband to agree to let me keep adding roses?) but she really captures those classic old English duchess vibes😆

I went back and forth between what style of garden rose I like better, but recently I’m loving the quartered centers the most.

Bolero holds her petals better, Desdemona shatters more easily as a cut.

Bolero Bare roots purchased from , Desdemona was a gift from and Tranquility is available at and

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