Today on At Home with Flowers- I’m creating a Rustic Vase- Behind the Bloom that will pair with a Flower Cocktail Hour Segment- that features a Maple based drink. The Vase features a small Maple tree- Eucalyptus Pods, Blush Astilbe and Pink Tiger Lilies… it’s arranged in a vase- using the Maple T...

Today on At Home with Flowers- I’m creating an arrangement of different types of Ranunculus for “J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom” – Fiore Italia You can watch it here… The Cloni Ranunculus are the Featured Flower- in this Italian based episode. While Cloni Ranunculus originated in Italy- the are grown...

Today on At Home with Flowers- I’m creating a vase of Stock- from my Friends the Ortiz Family at Joseph & Sons…and I share some of my favorite stories about Joe Sr. This vase of Stock Flowers is for our “Life in Bloom” Episode- Spice Flower- that is all about Stock and features my visit with Joe ...

Today on At Home with Flowers- let’s Dress up our Vases with Beautiful Ribbon from Reliant Ribbon and Flowers… of course! I create 3 different vase treatments- the first featuring Pussy Willows with Purple Dupioni Silk Ribbon- and add Lepto Flower and Carnations! The 2nd is a simple ‘braiding’ te...

Today on At Home with Flowers, I’m creating a Nature Inspired Arrangement with Driftwood! It’s a wonderful opportunity to include a piece of natural material into an arrangement to decorate our home. 
Working with Natural Materials is equally relaxing and makes it even more special when arranging...

Today on At Home with Flowers- I’m sharing one of my favorite tips for Bird of Paradise Flowers- the opening process… my Grandpa Carnation Joe taught this trick to me… and it works like a charm… I hope you Enjoy it… also I’ll arrange the Open Birds of Paradise into 2 Gold Vases from Accent Décor-...

Today on At Home with Flowers- I’m arranging Bells of Ireland- and sharing some of helpful hints- for arranging them… as well as other line flowers. I also show off my Dramm Compact Pruners that allow me intricate detail work for leaf removal.
These line flowers- are beautiful- they literally da...

Today on At Home with Flowers- I’ll share two different ways to arrange Scabiosa Pods- One is a free form vase arrangement and the other is a contemporary hand tied bouquet.
Scabiosa Pods are the featured flower- in Episode #405- From the Earth of “J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom” and these bouquets ...

Today on At Home with Flowers- I’ll be arranging Green Anthurium- in a lovely tropical style arrangement featuring Fabulous Foliage from our Friends at FernTrust! I’ll be creating the arrangement in a PSW Container from our Friends at Arcadia Garden Products… the container is 100% post-consumer r...

There’s new Interest in arranging with Chicken Wire- however this is an old technique- that is NEW again- I grew up and learned to arrange in Chicken Wire- back in my families flower shop. We used it almost exclusively with Sympathy Arrangements. Today it’s a NEW Discover to many- it doesn’t prov...

I spend a lot of time on At Home with Flowers- showing you how to arrange flowers in a vase- and today is no different- EXCEPT- that today – I’ll show you how to arrange flowers INSIDE a vase… meaning that the entire arrangement of flowers- will reside down INSIDE the vase- using a traditional ke...

One of my favorite tips for making different kinds of flowers look Important- or give them the spotlight- is the simple technique of grouping flowers. Group each kind of flower together- gives it more emphasis- and it doesn’t turn out looking “polka-dot”… I love this technique- and it raises the ...

I love recycling or repurposing containers – and this trio of vase was gifted to me by my niece- it contained 3 amaryllis bulbs- and it was just to darling to discard… so today- we’re going to fill this vase- with Flowers- and also accent the vases and the box with ribbon… The arrangements featur...