Anne van Midden / floral design

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Anne van Midden / floral design

natural floral design • art installations • online flower classes // Get in touch!

floral styling & natural installations for stores, events and photoshoots • weddings & gatherings • loves nature, thrifting & autumn days

Interested? anne [@] inspirestyling.com

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25/05/2026

It’s a wrap! 💗✨

Our beautiful Floral Artistry Retreat (the 2026 Italy edition) is officially over. I’m at the airport, on my way back home.

My heart is full and my head is still processing everything that happened. It was a magical, busy, wonderful blur.

But a few things are perfectly clear:

🌸 How grateful I am for my right hand, my flower angel, the backbone of the entire retreat: Ana Maria . No words, just love.

🌸 How amazing my entire team was! Thank you for joining me, for guest teaching and for your excitement! (I can’t wait to see your gorgeous photos!)

🌸 The fact we were in SUCH good hands with . Working with you on this retreat has been an absolute dream. We will be back 👌🏻

🌸 How incredible seasonal & local flowers can be. We already knew that, but to work with all this beauty was just heavenly. Grazie mille to all flower growers!! 👏🏻

🌸 The clearest thing of all: my love for every single attendee! We did this for you. I know you felt it. The whole group was amazing, I’m so proud of all of you.

My biggest goal for this retreat was that people felt seen, heard, encouraged and held. And that’s exactly what happened. Thank you for opening up to me, for sharing your creativity and dreams with us, for uplifting each other. And for all your kind words & compliments. You understand my love language 😁🥰

I’m sure I will have more words later. If you want to see more photos, check my retreat highlight!

For now: a massive THANK YOU to everyone involved for making my & Ana Maria’s dream come true 💜

Want to hear about future workshops / retreats? Get on my mailing list!

See you soon,
Ciao!

xx Anne

PS: thank you for these photos Jasmine 🧚🏻‍♀️

Flowers from:

And a special thanks to Andrea for everything

04/05/2026

No trending audio or marketing savvy words. Only this romantic Spring bouquet, a bit of garden magic and birds 🐦

Because 1: life is busy and 2: what else do you need? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Ingredients from my garden/foraged bits:
• Tulip la Belle Epoque�• Tulip Wyndham
• Narcissus Pink Charm
• Hellebores (unknown double variety)
• Physocarpus
• Deutzia (that trailing branch is everything!)
• Bird Cherry
• Akebia vines

Wholesale ingredients:�• Ranunculus Manuela
• Lathyrus Elegance Wedding
• Dianthus Lege Pink
• Lilac Maidens Blush Salmon

And as always, some beautiful ribbon by .and.flowers ✨

17/04/2026

Postcards from our garden 💜🌞🌸

This season is an absolute dream. I can’t stop taking photos and I probably say “LOOK AT THAT” a hundred times a day. But can you blame me?

The Prunus in our front garden is the showstopper of the entire street. Combined with the Wisteria, a field of self sown Lunaria and all our bulb-filled pots.. it’s almost too much to take in 🤯

This season is also a complete fever dream. It is MAD busy. Not because I’m sowing seeds, but because I have back to back classes in April. Meanwhile, I’m also prepping our beautiful Italy retreat in May.

Whoever is responsible for this planning will get a firm reprimand*

So posting here, creating content, recording new videos for my online school.. it’s all backlogged at the moment. Just bear with me, I’ll get back to it once the dust settles.

Until then.. enjoy these moments from our dream Spring garden with me! 😍

With love,
Anne

PS: waiting for that scratch & sniff option for this one 🤤

PPS: It’s me. I’m responsible. Forever working harder, not smarter 😆🙃

PPPS: Maybe switch off the sound for the last video, our neighbor was DIYing something 🙈

27/03/2026

March moments 🌸

1. a glorious bunch of faves from Gia Flowers
2. Fritillaria Meleagris dancing 💃🏻
3. the BEST Spring flowers for my 1:1 class with FIORISTA via Wholesale flowers, plants & sundries
4. a little foraging trip for said class
5. Miriam creating her romantic wedding bouquet
6. drool worthy hellebores 🤤
7. the Magnolia in our garden waking up 💗
8. celebrating Magnolia holiday with my friend BusGordijn | Laurie. Which comes down to drinking pink prosecco and admiring all the beautiful pink trees. We highly recommend everyone celebrating this every year! 🥂
9. the ultimate fairy flower: Epimedium from our garden (find lots of varieties Bio-kwekerij Aaldering De Stek!)
10. my company motto is ‘work harder, not smarter’.. handpainting giftbags for this season’s 1:1 classes 🤓
11. blossom walks
12. relocating bumblebees from the street to gardens 🐝
13. snipped some of our neighbours camelia (with permission.. sort of 😏)
14. the evening light has returned to my studio wall! 🌞
15. this might be my fave blossom photo yet.. that golden glow!
16. wearing a flower crown made by student FIORISTA
17. I’m part of the Fritillaria fanclub. Just look at this F. Persica dance.. swoon.. 😻
18. clouds upon clouds upon clouds ☁️
19. blossom fairies captured ✨
20. a selfie with my flowers just before my class started 🙋🏻‍♀️

I’m just so glad the abundance of flowers is here again.

I feel like the garden is growing 10cm per day. You blink and you missed something. It’s a beautiful flurry of blossom, daffodils and all kinds of flowers popping up.

I hope it can all bring you some comfort, beauty & hope!

Sending love,
xx Anne

24/02/2026

Say it with me:

You don’t need 3 rolls of chicken wire, 800 zipties and tons of flowers to create striking foam free designs.

But one thing you DO need?

A NATURAL BASE LAYER! 🌿

Especially if you don’t want an overstuffed design!

By creating a base layer with branches you create a natural structure to work in 🪸

Which means.. less chicken wire needed (yay for your hands!🩸), less zipties, less flowers to cover up your mechanics.. and above all.. LESS WASTE!

Follow the steps in this post to create your own light & airy flower arch - from scratch 🌸

Or BOOK A 1:1 CLASS with me and let me teach you all my foam free ‘secrets’ in person!

GO to my website and check the available dates! 👀

LlNK lN Bl0 👆🏻

PS: Spring is filling up quickly, so don’t wait too long 🌷

PPS: I’ve shared this arch before but never enough foam free how-to posts right? 👏🏻

PPPS: Spring classes = Spring flowers! 🤩 Did someone say daffodils? Tulips? Ranunculus? Fritillaria? Spirea? BUTTERFLY RANUNCULUS?! Why aren’t you emailing me yet? 🤤😍🫠

peonies may flowers bloemen floral installation flower arch flower class

02/02/2026

Some January moments for you. If you don’t like snow, look away!

1. Winter sun in my studio ✨
2. a collection of teeny tiny vases
3. a walk through Narnia ❄️
4. the day I dropped everything to enjoy the snow (and get laughed at by crows)
5. our garden looked like someone put whipped cream on it 🍦
6. studio view
7. Wintering in our living room 🕯️
8. a random snow person we passed.. they’re a mood for sure 👻
9. another random snow person, a completely different mood 😁
10. our neighbors cotoneaster
11. the only 🧊 I like to see
12. alder magic in the street light
13. ‘draw me like one of your French girls’
14. Stefans new hobby 👌🏻
15. teeny tiny shroomies
16. all the action my studio have seen lately
17. more Wintering
18. Stefan came home with a big bunch of Acacia & some tulips because “he was in the mood for flowers” (and I was hormonal so I needed it too lol) 💛
19. getting sidetracked by snow again
20. currently in full edit mode, this new class on foam free ceremony circles is coming to my online membership later this week!

I’m sure I’ll create new floral designs soon.. but for now I’m just enjoying the season.

Spring will be busy and by then, I will be glad I took it slower now.

How’s your Winter (or Summer) so far? 👇🏻

24/01/2026

Hey florist! Did you know it’s totally fine to reshare old favorites?

You can post the same thing twice.
Or 7 times.
You can post last years work.
Heck, you can share work from 5 years ago if you want.

I mean, if you have the time and IF you have flowers.. go nuts! Create new work, have fun, show your style & skills.

But it’s January, it’s Winter for a lot of us and I don’t know about you.. but when I look outside I see bare branches, evergreens and mayyyybe a snowdrop or 2. That’s pretty much it 🪵🌲

Which can be beautiful obviously, but for us flower lovers it can feel a bit.. uninspiring (I can hear you think: boring!).

Now, I love the rest Winter brings. I love having time for non-design things like making plans for my business and big website updates 🤓

But it creates this “what do I post when there’s no flowers” struggle. I know, because a lot of my online school members & students asked me for advice on it.

I told them what I told you just now: It is okay to re-share older work.

Who cares if you already shared it?

A lot of people might have missed it anyway and the folks that already saw it once (or twice or thrice) will be reminded of your beautiful work! 😍

So here is my 2025 hellebore appreciation moment for you.

I hope this will be your reminder to slow down, recycle and take the pressure off!

Trust me.. you’ll regret not resting once the flower season starts again 🌱

16/01/2026

Can you create áctual floral magic with wholesale ingredients?

Well yes. Yes, you can.

The proof is in the so called pudding. At least.. I think this broken arch looks pretty magical 🧚🏻‍♀️

I created this with my 1:1 student back in November. Late November, so there weren’t any local flowers available anymore.

Instead, I opted for semi-seasonal wholesale flowers from the Netherlands & foliage from Italy.

This piece stayed up for 3 days, after that I repurposed everything for a video class (coming later this month!). After that, I used things in wreaths and holiday decor. And now I still have dried flowers left to use in Winter 🥀

Doing the best I can as the imperfect yet whole human I am 💁🏻‍♀️

Here’s everything we used:

* Acacia Luna D’ Argento
* Phlebodium Davana
* Limonium/statice Tessa Lavender
* English Ivy seedpods
* Privet berries
* Rose Nayeli
* Rose Spray Amazing Lady
* Chrysantemum Baltazar Intense
* Chrysantemum Bigoudi Purple
* Carnation Hypnosis
* Carnation Spray Solomio Misterfly
* Brassica Crane King
* Hydrangea Glowing Alps Purple Green
* Callicarpa Profusion Purple
* Sanguisorba Scarlet Star
* Gentiana Pink Ashiro
* Lunaria, dried
* Dogwood branches

And before you bite my digital head off..

Yes, there are a FEW foraged bits in this installation. The dogwood branches, ivy seedpods, privet & lunaria.

But the last three are often available wholesale! (and branches too, if you are lucky.. looking at you LA flower market 😏)

SWIPE to read all my ‘wholesale to magic’ secrets! 👉🏻

And if you want to learn how to create your own floral magic, BOOK a 1:1 masterclass with me!

I have spots in February, March, April (and from mid June onwards). Find all dates on my website 🌎

When can I welcome you? 🌷

23/12/2025

I wanted to share a reel with tablescape ideas.. I even spend half a day creating content for it.

But this app (&the edits one) was giving me a hard time while making the video - per usual - and I don’t want to spend my Christmas break behind my computer in premiere pro.

So I just thought.. F it.

Bye reel 🫳🏻

I think it’s the perfect end of a complicated year.

To just let go. There has been plenty or marketing and work in 2026. Now, it’s time to focus on crafts, cat snuggles, xmas lights & time with loved ones 💛

Here are some random sparkly moments instead of an algorithm friendly reel.

SWIPE to see how obsessed I get with wrapping gifts, my handmade brass & beaded ornaments, full tables, some delightful kitschy xmas lights, Stefans delicious homegrown(!) shroomies & Atlas. Always Atlas 🐱

I want to wish you a merry Christmas / lovely end of December! I hope you’ll find peace, love & comfort, whatever and however you celebrate.

Lots of love,
Anne ❤️

PS: if you’re in/around Amersfoort - the lights in Soesterkwartier are worth a look! 🤩

PPS: sis, if you’re seeing your gifts.. no you don’t. Act surprised tomorrow 😁🙈

PPPS: the random screenshot is from this months live class on tablescapes! Check out my membership if you still want those tips 👌🏻

21/12/2025

Stop. Breathe.

Your scroll session can wait.
Your busy calendar can wait.
Your worries can wait.

Just breathe.

You are still here, after a tough year.
You are still here, in the middle of the December hustle.
You are still here, despite it all.

You made it to Winter solstice. And it’s okay to take a few minutes, an hour, a day to yourself.

Sit down and swap your phone for a book. Light a candle and have a cup of tea. Take a walk outside and find the beauty of the season. Create a natural altar to honor this fleeting moment in time.

But you don’t have to do any of that either.

Just breathe.

You are still here 🤍

Happy Winter solstice ✨

(and happy Summer solstice to my SH folks)

Winter altar from 2020, with solstice ingredients like ivy, evergreens, rosemary and sage.

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