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Notes from a Flower Farm: DIY Valentine's Day Posies and Arrangements
By Katherine Anderson
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How to make posies and small bouquets for Valentine's Day.
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Notes from a Flower Farm: Holiday Centerpiece Guide
By Katherine Anderson
Pick your own holiday centerpiece: We've put together DIY guides to five very different floral arrangements for your holiday table. There's one for every taste: modern, traditional, hipster, and dramatic.
Related Topics: How-To | Blue | Green | Orange | Red | Floral Arrangements | Floral Design | holiday centerpieces | Holiday Décor | Katherine Anderson | notes from a flower farm
Twilight: Breaking Dawn's Flower Arrangements
By Claire Lui
Casa Sugar has a great feature on the wedding flowers in Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part 1. (The one where the vampire finally gets married, natch.)
Related Topics: Entertaining | Green | White | Floral Arrangements | Floral Design | popular culture | Twilight | vampires | weddings
What Makes a House a Home: Amy Merrick
By Amy Merrick
Amy Merrick, a Brooklyn-based florist and stylist (you might recognize her name from her popular "Living-In" posts for Design*Sponge) shares with us how she packs her Brooklyn apartment with flowers and plants, keeping herself surrounded with nature, even in the middle of the city. Check out the photographs of her plant-filled home!
Related Topics: Ideas | Green | Pink | Purple | Amy Merrick | Floral Design | Houseplants | inspiration | interiors | New York | What Makes a House a Home
FlowerSchool New York: Master Class with Ariella Chezar
By Claire Lui
Our online editor attends a class taught by florist Ariella Chezar and share some of Chezar's tips for creating a natural, full but loose centerpiece. Chezar favors a more relaxed style of arranging that is inspired by the way plants grow in the garden and is a move away from the tightly bundled style of flower arranging.
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Notes From a Flower Farm: Sunflowers, Zinnias, and Dahlias
By Katherine Anderson
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Now that Labor Day is behind us and the kids are heading back to school, Katherine Anderson of Marigold and Mint creates a few late summer flower arrangements with three favorite flowers of the season: sunflowers, zinnias, and dahlias.
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Notes From a Flower Farm: Summer Shells
By Katherine Anderson
Notes from a Flower Farm goes on vacation and gets inspired by the seashore's shells for her latest flower arrangements.
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First Lady of Flowers
By Paul O'Donnell
Dorothy Biddle was a pioneer in the world of American flower arranging, traveling around the country by bus and train from the late 1940s to the late 1950s, encouraging Americans everywhere to grow and arrange their own flowers. Her legacy lives on today in her company, Dorothy Biddle Service, run by her granddaughter, which continues to sell flower arranging supplies—now on the Internet.
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A Frog Lover’s Delight
By Lise Funderburg
Flower Frogs for Collectors is exactly what its name describes: a collection of photos of flower frogs, for collectors. One collector—who has about a hundred—even uses a frog as a toothbrush holder.
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Flower Arranging 101
By Deb Schwartz
Creating striking arrangements doesn't take a genius—or a florist. Our step-by-step guide about how to DIY flower centerpieces at home.
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