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ALMANAC valentine's 2018
. volume 4
Lilies and cover tulips from The Sun Valley Group
Inspiration We've listened to your requests for more recipes, so here they are just in time for Valentine's Day. We strove to find ideas at all price points and styles, so whether you need a solution for a lady love, a best friend, a handsome husband, or a sweet young girl, we've got it! You are welcome to visit our website
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Fl o w e r Re cipe Ingredients: 3 - white kale from The Sun Valley Group
5 - bells of ireland from Joseph & Sons
6 - Jade roses from Golden Flowers
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Bright Box
4 - green cremons from Golden Flowers
4 - white & green parrot tulips from The Sun Valley Group
6 - snowflake spray roses from Golden Flowers
3 - green mini carnations from Golden Flowers
5 - sprigs of plumosa from Hopkins Quality Foliage, Inc.
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Cut presoaked floral foam to fit your box. Gently curl back the leaves of the kale to make them "bloom" and remove any extra
or broken leaves. Insert the kale down the center of the foam at varying heights, and the bells at the ends, with one side higher than the other.
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Fill in the gaps and holes with spray roses and cremons.
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Drip the tulips out the front corners of the arrangement. Then cluster the roses in trios at the front and back.
Add the mini carnations. Finish off with wispy tufts of plumosa to make the finished arrangement more airy.
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Cottage Charm
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your hydrangeas to get even
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coverage with some holes to fill
add visual interest.
Line the wooden container with foil or cellophane, then
cut soaked floral foam to fit. Insert
Place stock and leather leaf in the holes around
the hydrangea. Be sure some point up and some point down to
with the other elements.
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Insert spray roses, some may need to be broken in
to smaller clumps.
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Fill remaining holes with solidago. Finish off
with sprigs of matricaria white daisy aster to dance over the arrangement.
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peel back the leaves of kale to
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get a bigger bloom and remove
kale, fill voids with variegated
imperfect leaves.
pittosporum.
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Start with floral foam soaked in water and floral food and
cut to fit in you vessel. Gently
Use the foxtail ferns to accentuate the
asymmetrical shape, a few high ones at the back, a couple low ones at the front.
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Loop the ti leaves and stab the stem through the leaf
a couple inches from the top. Put them at the front and back of the
Finish with cocculus, kalanchoe and a few
whimsical pieces of bupleurum to finish it off.
fun with foliage
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spring blooms
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This can easily be made in a rose bowl vase as well. Prep
with floral food and water. Add hydrangea.
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Put the iris opposite the hydrangea, you may find
it helpful to thread a couple stems through the hydrangea to help hold them in place.
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Add your godetia.
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Add your tulips, and a few sprigs of bupleurum to
dance around the arrangement.
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Fl o w e r Re c ipe Ingredients: 2 - stems of sprengeri from Hopkins Quality Foliage, Inc.
4 - heirloom hydrangea from The Sun Valley Group
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purple hues
7 - purple stock from Joseph & Sons
3 - purple tornado cremons from Golden Flowers
4 - stems of peach mini carnations from Golden Flowers
6" rose bowl
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Prep your vase with water and flower food. Use the clear floral tape to make a grid on the top of the vase. Add the sprengeri
out the sides of the bowl. Be careful, with rose bowls, it's easy to arrange with the stems just missing the water level.
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Use the stock to accentuate the long shape and shorter stems to fill in the holes around the hydrangea.
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Add your hydrangeas in different directions. This can easily be done with them all the same color, but the different hues
add an element of visual interest.
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The cremons should help fill in the middle, and the mini carnations can dance around the arrangement by keeping the
stems slightly longer than the rest of the composition. Be sure to utilize some of the longer branches of mini carnations as well.
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Prep your container with presoaked floral foam cut to
fit. Use waterproof tape over the top of the foam for an extra secure
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Add spray roses and godetia. You may need
to break up some of the larger clumps of spray roses.
fit. Green it out.
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Next, arrange the mini carnations throughout the
arrangement. Follow that with the alstroemeria.
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Fill in holes with stock and make sure a couple stems
accentuate the shape of the composition.
Recipe pink flower pedestal
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Classic & elegant
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Prep your vase with water and flower food. Use the clear
floral tape to make a grid on the top of the vase. Remove all but
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Fill in with white stock and spray roses.
the upper leaves and add your hydrangea.
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the last little gesture of height to
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the side of the arrangement.
overall look.
Continue to fill in with the other white elements. Save
the white veronica for last to add
Last, little sprigs of matricaria white button
aster and bupleurum add movement and enhance the
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A Cheery Pair
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top of the vase. Add sprengeri.
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Prep your vase with water and flower food. Use the clear
floral tape to make a grid on the
Prep your vase with water and flower food. Use the clear
floral tape to make a grid on the top of the vase. Add sprengeri, foxtail fern and hydrangea.
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Remove all but the upper leaves of the hydrangea.
Place them and the foxtail ferns.
Pop in yellow cremons.
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Fill the holes with mini carnations, spray roses and
alstroemeria.
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Fill in with solidago and button pompons.
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Add solidago for contrast and finish with matricaria
white daisy aster for texture.
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Finish with kalanchoe for a fun contrast.
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girly glam
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Prep your vase with water and flower food. If you like, use
the clear floral tape to make a grid on the top of the vase. This can
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Use the cremon and pompons to give a nice
base of white. Add a stem of godetia.
help everything stay in place for delivery.
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Pull the branches off of a stem of matsumoto aster
and scatter the blossoms around the arrangement.
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Accent with sprigs of tree fern. Finally add a little
sparkle with glittered flowers, rhinestones, or something fun.
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the top of the vase. Add green
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pittosporum, and make sure none
leaves. Be very careful removing
of the leaves are underwater.
the ones just below the blooms.
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Prep your vase with water and flower food. Use the
clear floral tape to make a grid on
Add the carnations and spray roses. Try to have
them at different stages of opening so the bouquet can be enjoyed for longer.
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Add a bunch of red alstroemeria. Remove all
of the leaves to put the focus more on the flower and less on the
Finish with cremons to fill the last of the holes,
and kalanchoe sprigs for a fun alternative to baby's breath.
flower Recipe modern red
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cottage charm
pink pedestal
p a ge 8
p a ge 18
Ingredients:
Ingredients:
3 - blue hydrangea 2 - leather leaf 7 - yellow stock 3 - Suncity spray roses 1 - yellow button pompon 9 - solidago 3 - matricaria white daisy aster
2 - umbrella palm 6 - Israeli ruscus 5 - Queenberry roses 4 - hot pink godetia 4 - Spectro mini carnations 7 - Plantina alstroemeria 6 - pink stock
classic & elegant fun with foliage p a ge 10
Ingredients: 3 - white kale 4 - variegated pittosporum 3 - green ti leaves 6 - foxtail fern 4 - cocculus 3 - white kalanchoe 1 or 2 - bupleurum
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Ingredients: 4 - white hydrangea 1 - white cushion pompon 5 - white godetia 4 - white stock 4 - Snow Flake spray roses 2 - matricaria white button aster 2 - bupleurum 3 - white veronica
A cheery pair spring blooms p a ge 12
Ingredients: 1 - blue hydrangea 3 - iris 3 - coral godetia 2 - pale pink tulips 1 - bupleurum
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p a ge 22
Ingredients for pink: 2 - sprengeri 4 - white hydrangea 3 - foxtail fern 10 - Bizet carnations 7 - Pink Flash spray roses 6 - Nemo alstroemeria 6 - solidago 2 - matricaria white daisy aster
A cheery pair p a ge 2 2
Ingredients for yellow: 2 - sprengeri 3 - white hydrangea 3 - foxtail fern 5 - Yellow Elenora cremon 5 - yellow button pompons 4 - solidago 2 - pink kalanchoe
Girly glam p a ge 2 6
Ingredients: 1 - Snow Elenora Cremon 1 - white daisy pompon 2 - hot pink godetia 3 - hot pink matsumoto 2 - tree fern 3 - glitter flowers
modern red p a ge 2 8
special thanks to our growers golden flowers blue and white hydrangea, spray roses, pompons, solidago, godetia, roses, carnations, mini carnations, alstroemeria, veronica, cremons
hopkins quality foliage, Inc. leather leaf, ti leaves, foxtail fern, cocculus, umbrella palm, Israeli ruscus, sprengeri, green and variegated pittosporum, tree fern, plumosa
Joseph & Sons stock, bupleurum, bells of ireland
Ingredients: 4 - green pittosporum 10 - Chicago altstroemeria 5 - Red Tornado cremons 6 - Rubicon Spray Roses 15 - Daniko Carnations 3 - white kalanchoe
the sun valley group heirloom hydrangeas, white kale, matricaria asters, kalanchoe, iris, tulips, matsumoto asters
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