Floral Design by Yukiko: blog2

Floral design for St Patrick’s Day is this robust five footer of the green Bells of Ireland, harakeke, spiraea, euphobia, and white oriental lilies, hydrangea and tulips.

Smith Ranch, San Rafael, California – March, 2010

Big, bold holiday flower arrangements draw special attention from young and old.  Romantic theme of Valentine’s Day blooms as branches of quince bud into full flower in Marin County.

Holiday bouquets are part of Yukiko’s weekly series of five-footers (and larger) arrangements at Smith Ranch in San Rafael – every week for twelve years and counting.

Japanese floral design, cymbidium orchids, red amaryllis, curly willow with moss, harakeke, Marin seasonal foliage, created for another artist.

Five footer arrangement in green and white is poised on staggered pedestals with Oriental lilies, orchids, roses, and seasonal branches with harakeke, and a vase of hydrangea – traditional design for the Smith Ranch.

Five footer arrangement is poised on staggered pedestals with anthuriums, lilies, orchids, roses, holly and seasonal branches with pine cones – traditional design for the Smith Ranch.

Oriental Lilies and occidental holly complement each other in an ikebana complete with holiday pine cone, branches and foliage.

This design is temporarily available through the shopping cart button on the Online Bouquets page. 

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Floral Theme Creates Four Distinctive Designs by Yukiko:

Client asked me to create four designs with traditional holiday colors, but not in the generic style common among Christmas Decorations.  The party invitation showed tree-tip branches with snow flakes clinging.  So I took my theme from there, beginning with Oak branches and moss with silvered berries.   In the side-piece below, the design is completed with Oriental Lilies, holly with traditional red berries, pine cone, pomegranate and various leaves and foliage.

The theme carries through the tallest centerpiece;  below the oak branches are completed with cala lilies in unusual color, with white Oriental Lilies and holly, et cetera.

The second centerpiece is topped with white oriental lilies, and wrapped with curly willow, and uplifting bands of harakeke with holly and silvered berries.

Red, white and green:  roses orchids, holly, harakeke and curly willow… This bouquet has recently been posted on my Online Bouquets page along with one of those shopping cart buttons.

Tall design shaped from cymbidium and dendrobium orchids with leucadendron and magnolia leaves.

Designed for client in Greenbrae, California.