Studio H Floral Design

12/05/2024

Flowers for a Mother’s Day party. Simple and beautiful Cabaret roses with antique carnations, lavender scabiosa, green athos button mums, and white hydrangea accented with local greens and silver dollar eucalyptus.

05/05/2024

😮 So much gorgeousness! 🌸🌷🌼🌺

👀Don’t miss the opportunity to see this in person!

🙏🏼 Our city is blessed to count Melissa Huston of Studio H Floral Design as one of our own!

05/05/2024

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05/05/2024

🌧 At least the rain has been good for our May basket.

🌷Thanks again Studio H Floral Design!

05/05/2024

This design was put outside the afternoon of April 30. It is 10 PM on May 4, and it still looks amazing despite weather in the 80s and direct sun. Why? Because Floral conditioning, good mechanics, and flower choice makes a difference. This is why you hire professionals. DVFlora

03/05/2024

Melissa and her niece at the “We’re Woman Walk, Flowers Flourish” instillation at

02/05/2024

The City Of Annapolis is a beautiful and charming town all year long, but especially on May Day ❤️

Cheers to everyone who made a flower basket, and came downtown to enjoy the efforts of our community.

01/05/2024

A beautiful masterpiece for Annapolis titled “where women walk, flowers, flourish” My design concept is to capture the essence of women’s influence. The placement was crucial, on the left-hand side by the suffragette mural, so the garden grows from their leadership, as well as from whomever poses in front of it.

01/05/2024

It seems like there are hundreds of May Day baskets around downtown Annapolis, SO MANY gorgeous basket and displayed created with love by a multitude of local. Come, check them all out, here are the locations of the 13 that Melissa Huston created.

01/05/2024

Come to Annapolis tomorrow, May 1 and walk around the city for all of the beautiful baskets! don’t forget the residential area, Charles and shipwright Street always have great displays.

Then join us at Parley Room for Happy Hour! Melissa Huston has multiple designs around town, and would love to meet you tomorrow!

23/04/2024

Melissa Huston's first May Day basket was for Zachary's Jewelers in 2008, but it was the Covid year when people really took notice. 2020 was the first Barrel of Blooms at the former Harvest Wood Grill + Tap, and other donated displays for Middleton Tavern, Fox's Den, Vida Taco Bar, and Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre. It went from one or two a year, to over a dozen displays at local businesses in Downtown Annapolis

This year's Barrel of Blooms will return to Luna Blu Ristorante, and it will be assembled the afternoon before May 1 at a time TBD.

Read Melissa's story: https://annapolismomsmedia.com/may-day-2024/ in Annapolis Moms Media

The traditional May Day competition hosted by the Garden Club of Old Annapolis Towne was suspended, but for over 60 years, Annapolis residents and businesses have been hanging fresh-cut flower baskets.

07/04/2024

Ginny Hockey asked for flowers for the Historic Inns Bridal show - you just do it 😘

06/05/2023

Bold tropicals for live waters fundraiser at the Charles Carroll house. Flowers include deep pink and white Dendrobium orchids, orange, free spirit roses, dark purple carnations, heliconia, birds of paradise, painted leaves, and three sizes of Monstera leaves. Live Water Foundation Events by Yosira

05/05/2023

#12 Luna Blue - We finally get to the end of the list, with the 4th annual Barrel of Blooms, This is the third barrel for Erin’s restaurant, and every year I hope can create a design that is as beautiful as her food is tasty.

There are several challenges with this design. It’s not the size, it’s the location. Luna Blue restaurant is on West Street in Annapolis and faces south, so it receives brutal direct sun. I select flowers that can withstand a few days in the hot sun and have stems long and sturdy enough to go deep in the floral foam. The ingredients for all the May Day baskets get extra care for hydration. My flowers were sourced from and I used Oasis floral foam and crowning glory as a finishing spray.

Fortunately, this year the first week of May was cool and cloudy, but some years the heat is brutal. I would have changed the design if the weather was different, luckily this week was ideal for the city’s flower displays.

The flower mix includes hot lady roses, pink ginger, bells of Ireland, hot pink boronia, LA lilies, alstronova, carnations, Ying Yang daisies, focal dark pink asters, yellow asteroid disbud mums, solidago, double purple asters, eucalyptus, and p***y willow. It’s a feast for the eyes!

05/05/2023

#11 B Boutique Boutique. Some designs you just want to lay in and let the gorgeous wash over you. It's flirty, vintage, and fresh – all at the same time. I found the bench and watering can at a local action (it came in a lot with a Birdbath, birdhouse, and a wine rack.) The garden flower mix featured an abundance of eucalyptus and springeri with dusty Miller, the flowers featured lisanthus, Ge**er daisies, antique carnations, Queen Anne's lace, stock flower, delphinium, snapdragons, Ying Yang daisies, Astra Maria, garden roses, and cornflower. Its scrumptious from every angle. Thank you Lori Ashby and B Boutique for a photos, I am terrible at taking pics.

05/05/2023

#10 – Buddy's Crabs and Ribs– I love how enthusiastic Kevin Blonder is every year. The assignment is simple, theme: crabs and waterfront. I always have fun with this design. The challenge comes in reimagining it differently every year. 2023’s May Day basket is an homage to the local working boats. I took a vintage replica boat and decorated it with flowers in Maryland colors. In the center is a crab cage dotted with spiky blue thistle and blue cornflower. The Maryland colors are celebrated with gold viking mums and craspedia balls, deep red ‘Freedom’ roses, red gerrondo, and hypericum berries, and white spider mums. The finishing touch is the OLD BAY® Seasoning ribbon from Route One Apparel

04/05/2023

#9 - Number 9 is a tribute to Footloose, the Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre's third show. ASGT is an outdoor theater in downtown Annapolis that runs from Memorial Day to labor day, for tickets click here: https://summergarden.com/tickets/ I asked my friends for inspiration and came up with a cassette tape as a “basket.” The cassette ribbon is pulled out and woven between the flowers and a pair of boots and sneakers. For the florals – I wanted bright sunshine! Focal sunflowers and yellow roses, craspedia balls, and viking mums, accented with bicolored hypnotic carnations, purple double asters, liatris, pink alstroemeria, and Spanish Moss. Its music comes to life! Photo Credit Photo credit: Annapolis Photography Studio Clare Conger Barone

04/05/2023

#8 - if you asked me for my favorite, it’s this piece. I love organic natural design. For Fox’s Den, this tree stump was perfect! I have been drying and persevering it for a year now, waiting for the opportunity to use is. For the design, flowers were chosen and placed to make it look as if nature had taken over. Product used were orange safflower, green, hellebore, Queen Anne’s lace, calla lilies, green trick dianthus, cornflower, leucadendron, grasses thistle and pods.

04/05/2023

#7 – There is a new restaurant in Annapolis that is opening today – GOAT. To get a feel for the new restaurant, the staff gave me a preview tour. Upscale Mexican that has a super cool cantina vibe. I wanted to deliver a Mayday basket that reflected their style and helped build anticipation for tonight's opening. Rather than a traditional basket, I chose a flat basket for the backdrop and procured A replica goat skull for the focus. Rather than ribbons, I tied together dried chilies and adorned the goat skull with deep red roses, hypericum berries, yellow Viking mums, yellow craspedia balls, amaranths, and thistle with dried grass.

04/05/2023

#6 Vida Taco Bar has bold bright flavors, so I used bold bright flowers and textures. The hanging cone has a base layer of purple kale, hot pink asters, orange orchids, fuchsia Ge**er daisies, yellow craspedia balls, purple liatris, plantains, blood orange mini dianthus, burgundy hanging amaranths, Spanish Moss, deep purple carnations.

04/05/2023

#5 – Annebeth's has the best selection of local beer, wine, snacks, gifts -everything! I tailor each design to the business’ style, so I turned her gift baskets into a garden with a variety of flowers. The Route 11 Chesapeake chips are filled with yellow viking mums, the Boat Day by Forward Brewing beer can has Chamomile flowers, the Baltimore-Washington beer works Tell Tale Heart IPA is filled with blood orange freesia, Annapolis Candle Sea Salt Boxed Candle box peach garden roses, Chocolove Mini Dark Chocolate Bar Raspberries has green hellebores, the Chocolove, Toffee & Almonds Milk Chocolate has lavender flower, the wine tote bag is filled with blue delphinium, bells of Ireland are in the wine bottle, the fish vase has double lavender tulips, and the mug has mauve lisianthus buds.

04/05/2023

#4 – This basket is for a special place – Galway Bay Irish Restaurant and Pub . I wanted to capture the essence of Ireland with textures and colors. Moss-covered tea tray with sprouting green hellebores, orange roses, orange tulips, and Safflower. Accented with a wooden boat, reminiscent of the actual Galway Bay in Ireland, and a Kilbeggan Traditional Double Distilled cask. A little history nugget: Kilbeggan Whiskey license to distill dates to 1757, that same year, George Washington was drinking in a local Annapolis tavern. The main design bursts out of a Jameson Irish Whiskey tin. The garden mix features green hellebores orange roses, orange tulips, white asters, green trick dianthus, springeri, and Bells of Ireland

04/05/2023

#3 – The Third May Day basket is a twist on a classic for Bohl Architects . I found this vintage Swedish fishing basket in an auction, and I loved the idea of flowers spilling out of it. My favorite detail is the combination of the flat angular lines of the basket, with the soft frilly flowers spilling out. As if they were fresh-picked. Photo Credit: Clare Conger Barone of Annapolis Photography Studio

03/05/2023

#2 – The second one in the May Day 2023 collection is a traditional inspired basket for another historic property: Capital Hotel Annapolis & Parley Room

They have a lovely garden patio surrounded by an iron fence, so Melissa Huston designed two matching baskets for either side of the gate. She took the classic may day garden concept but made it a bit more compact with bolder colors for an updated look. Melissa purposefully omitted ribbons, for a sleeker finish. The mix of bold and soft colors and textures was key to the floral recipe.

The mix includes black and white Ying Yang pom poms, pink antique carnations, Peach Garden roses, dark pink mini dianthus, light and dark pink Alstronova, chocolate queen Anne's lace, deep purple double asters, kale, yes you read that correctly – Kale, white veronica, bright yellow tulips, yellow mums, mauve Lisianthus, plumosis, and magnolia.

03/05/2023

#1 - For May Day this year, Melissa Huston designed a collection of 12 floral displays around Annapolis, for various downtown businesses. The first is Classic May Day for this historic building at 164 Conduit St. For Kelly Groups and Investments' colonial building, Melissa did a garden mix of bells of Ireland, pink snapdragons, double purple asters, blue delphinium, mauve lisianthus, peach garden roses, yellow irises, peach stock, pink gerbera daisies, light pink lilies, alstronova, green thistle, p***y willow, springeri, eucalyptus, and magnolia adorned with traditional ribbons. Photo Credit Clare Conger of Annapolis Photography Studio

30/04/2023

22/04/2023

Melissa Huston of Studio H specializes in unique and detailed designs. There are limited slots available for May Day in Annapolis. Email [email protected] or send us a message.