Comments on: The Farmer & The {Florist} Interview: Ariella Chezar

By: Diana Johnson

Diana Johnson — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 02:42:02 +0000

I love to use Boxwood, Aborvitae & Hostas. And my favorite “roadside grab” is Queen Anne’s Lace …just wish it lasted longer!

By: Zoe D.

Zoe D. — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 02:12:02 +0000

Ariella’s Seasonal Flower Arranging is my go to for floral inspiration. The vase of greens with several varieties of scented geraniums is my jam and added a whole new use for my favorite collection of plants. My go to for foraged foliage is sweet autumn clematis summer through fall. I can’t wait to spend time immersed in this beautiful celebration of home and all things floral!

By: Bellamy

Bellamy — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 01:29:08 +0000

As a young person I was hosting an out of town guest and a couple of nearby friends for the first time. I roamed around my parents property for something to make into an arrangement. I had a beautiful display of yellow flowers that hung naturally over the vase. I was thrilled. My friend kindly informed me later that it was ragweed. Oh well, it didn’t stop me, just taught me to learn more about what I was choosing.

By: Evelyn Penner

Evelyn Penner — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 22:09:41 +0000

Love your flowers the way you arrange them .and I live roses with different foliage mixed in .you did amazing job .

By: Diane LaFleur Shields

Diane LaFleur Shields — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 21:58:51 +0000

What a joy to share ‘Season and place. Place and season.” I live for foraging.

Experimenting with drying flowers from my garden at peak. Preserving this way gives me everlasting beauty without cost to the environment of shipping flowers from afar. I’m even trying the beautiful fungi appearing from the rain.

By: Fiona Potter

Fiona Potter — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 21:57:08 +0000

While I love to arrange with big blousy blooms like tulips and peonies one of my favorite things to do is create something magical from whatever I find on my regular walks in nature. During Covid when a regular flower supply was difficult to come by, I set myself little challenges whenever I would go out. Whatever I found on my walk I would use to create something special to bring nature indoors. There is beauty everywhere and even a knarly old chestnut that’s been in the ground for a week can be beautiful. I think my favorites were wild buttercup, clover, and even the much maligned dandelion with or without her yellow petals for small bedside arrangements. Add to these any number of wild greens and magic can truly happen. For a large statement a few branches of bright green maple that shows off their arching beauty are a favorite.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 21:17:46 +0000

I always try to incorporate weathered and mossy oak branches that I find in our pasture in every project. Loved this interview!

By: Marisol

Marisol — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:47:49 +0000

My flower arrangements use to be just cultivated flowers, but I’ve discovered the beauty of adding a cutting of an edible to a bouquet. It could be something like cherry tomatoes on a vine, cuttings with fruit, herbs, or just a piece of a branch or foliage.

Love the idea of paying attention of what is outside the window, growing around us.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:44:33 +0000

Beautiful! Our local flower farmer/florist foraged apple branches, ivy and willow from our garden. She incorporated them into beautiful floral arrangements for my daughter’s English garden backyard wedding.

By: Janet Weening

Janet Weening — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:44:28 +0000

One of my favourite bouquets was a unique arrangement of garden flowers, mixed with wild flowers, twigs and small branches nestled in moss in a hollowed out branch found in the forest.