What a fun day! I spent today watching Andrew Pascoe, a London-born floral designer who now resides in Oyster Bay, New York, designing for many hot customers like the New York Times and featured in Architectural Digest. He was very informative with a truly English garden type design style.
I have to say the best of show in my book was the design done reminiscent of the Flemish artists. The design included David Austin roses, which were spectacular! Imagine a soft peach rose that has about 4x's the amount of petals of the regular hybrid rose with fullness and fragrance to knock your socks off! This arrangement was designed with red ranunculus, red/yellow parrot tulips, single peonies, bells of Ireland and more. Extraordinary.
The afternoon session was filled with hearing Amy Stewart talk about her findings in her book, Flower Confidential: The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers. She has toured the world finding out the chain of the floral industry, from breeding, growing, producing, packing, shipping, right down to the delivery to your local florist. We are local florists are an endangered species with the major changes that are happening in our industry. We, at Bergerons, are still so proud to be here to supply your needs. Keep our business growing! Amy was extremely informative and I even got her to sign my copy of her book.
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