Spring Boutonnieres - hellebore and succulent

Succulents are still popular for bridal bouquets and boutonnieres, and I love them. What is kind of neat about using succulents in your wedding is that after the wedding you can carefully remove the succulent from the boutonniere or bouquet and shove it in some soil. It will take root after a couple weeks and you will have a living keepsake from your wedding day!

Top boutonniere - succulent, anemone, clematis buds

Bottom boutonniere - hellebore and sword fern

Summer bouquet - Hydrangea and scabiosa

This sweet summer bouquet has blue hydrangea, a mixture of succulents and purple scabiosa through out. It's been finished with some burlap and a lace ribbon detail.

  The boutonniere is a small succulent and dusty miller leaf finished with burlap.

Ring Bearer Ideas

There are so many great ideas out there for the ring bearer. Here are a few of my favorites...

Tara McHugh Flora - driftwood, mum and ribbon

April Hiler Designs

Source: http://www.polkadotbride.com/

I really love the sign idea! Super cute and easy to customize to the style of your wedding.

Succulent Centerpieces

This past week I had lots of fun creating a grouping of three succulent pots to display in a modern waterfront home that it currently for sale here in Victoria. Some of the plants used were, echeveria "lola" and another succulent called Senicio "blue chalk fingers". Something like this is great for a home on the market as it is very low maintenance but still helps add some life to the space.

Something like this is also great for anyone who finds regular house plants too much work. These only need to be watered about every 3 weeks. You can always tell if your succulent needs water if the leaves start to shrivel!

iPhone Inspirations

My mind is tired from screaming children and having to repeat myself a hundred times a day, so this post is just going to resort to iphone photos from the last couple of weeks.....

(mother's day hike)

(tree peony that I have to rip out to make room for the new playhouse.....boo hoo)

(my garden tulips)

(wine tasting afternoon in Summerland with my sis!)

(sparkles at the car show)

(Studio Tour in Naramata - Allen + Maurer house)   www.allenmaurer.com

Succulents

I have been having lots of fun lately working with succulents. They have such great sculptural shapes. Here is a peek at a few creations.....

Vintage Planters for Kids

I have been having lots of fun lately with small vintage planters......

Being so small and not having any drainage, these planters work the best with succulents, cacti and small tropicals.

Kids love plants in their rooms too!

Succulents - Aeonium

For some longer lasting, low maintenance plant life in your home try succulents. They need very little care, just a bit of water when you can remember and perhaps the pulling off of dead leaves once in awhile.

In the pictures below aeoniums are planted in my 18 Karat's "salt" vases which have a lovely salt like texture to them. And I have finished them off with some glass gravel.