25th February 2015

Scent from above

This Spring we are lucky enough to have two florists exhibiting at our PapaKåta Open Weekend. With our beautiful teepee and Sperry tents offering totally different spaces, we wanted to help you envisage your perfect event with the help of two industry leaders.

This week Fiona Pickles of Firenza Floral Design and Lucy Macnicoll Floral Design will be providing guest features for the PapaBlog, giving you a sneak preview of what to expect from their Open Weekend creations and updating you on the floral trends for 2015.

There is nothing more spectacular than a lavish display of fresh flowers and helping to inspire you on today’s PapaBlog is the lovely and talented Fiona Pickles. Fiona is passionate about flowers, especially those that whilst effortless in appearance are most certainly not in their preparation. Fiona’s expertise lies in the art of creating beautifully feminine, unfussy creations that are the epitome of romance…

We’re very excited to be working with PapaKåta again at their Open Weekend this Spring; it is genuinely one of our favourite weekends of the year.

Trends for Spring 2015
We have always loved the teepees, our fabulous, familiar friends that give you a huge hug when you meet them, as well as their new sisters, the beautiful, sophisticated Sperry tents. They are both very different from each other, but both have the great advantage of presenting an opportunity to embrace the massive current trend for hanging flowers, hanging tea lights and hanging vases. In fact stand still and you’ll get hung from a pole, a swing or an arch.

So many venues just don’t have the option for hanging anything, so my advice if you are lucky enough to have booked a teepee or Sperry, is to really use them to their full potential – the finished results look amazing.

Combine the trend for all things hanging with the other current obsession for beautiful ribbons and we will be in a ribbony and flowery heaven while setting up (albeit at the top of a ladder!).

The move away from having a limited, single colour scheme continues and we excitedly embrace this trend by using wonderful mixes of beautiful pale colours in pinks, peaches, creams, greens, greys and slate blues, with occasional pops of rust and brighter deeper hues.

Flowers of the moment
Of course we will still be using our signature scented, seasonal flowers and herbs, combined with some of the most incredible garden roses, that is what we’re all about after all. The big flowers of the moment are the glorious poppy-like anemomes in pastels, creams and whites. We will combine them with other seasonal favourites like hyacinth, ranunculus and incredibly scented broom, then add in some fabulous blowsy garden roses, heady scented stocks and delicate sprigs of jasmine. Put all these together with our gorgeous herbs and foliages like ferns and olive and you’ll have wedding flowers that not only smell incredible but would be fit to grace any of the beautiful American blogs we all drool over.

Botanicals
One exciting new area at the Open Weekend is the botanical cocktail bar, and we will be collaborating with Speakeasy Libations to ensure the florals and the beverages are botanically in sync. The colour scheme here will become more restful in greens and whites/creams with maybe an occasional suggestion of pale blue from tiny rosemary flowers. Think bunches of herbs hanging nonchalantly from a swing with a delicate jasmine trail to bring it to life, botanical samples under glass cloches of all sorts of shapes and sizes, trails of ivy and olive with hanging circlets of foliage and ferns. We’ll be needing some of the incredible Gin Garden cocktails after we’ve set all that up!!

How to make this work for you
So, for lots of ideas on how to translate these gorgeous current trends into your day special, do come and say hello. I will be in the teepees both days to chat flowers, herbs, ribbons and anything else gorgeous with you.

Fiona, Firenza Floral Design

Tags: Flowers, Open weekend, Sperry, Teepee