To two too!

Craft an everything is still growing spring design to celebrate... what we love!

Tap away most of the pollen from a fully opened tulip

Tulips continue to grow after being cut. Sometimes when you make a very small design or for competition or bridal work you want to minimize growth. The best way to do this is to...

Here is a trick to make sure your tulips will condition thoroughly

A clever almost concealed wire support to keep a single tulip flower upright in a minimal bud design.

Tulips continue to grow as they open. This means you not only have to be mindful of their proportions as they are now... but also as they will be once open.

It's sometimes difficult to place a tiny crystal or bead exactly where you want it.

Glue twigs to screen delicate flowers for a wintry design.

Craft a suspended armature to create a clear winter design.

Wedge snipped twigs into a glass vase to act as a support for your flowers

Carefully manipulate and bend green willow stems to place in water to sprout as an armature for tulips to mature and open

Plait Tulip stems

An grass armature that looks scattered but is actually very secure

Tulip

It's Tulip Season! Perfect for that "it's still winter ... but is that something green I see...?" mood designs.

Luxuriously filled design... filled with flowers... filled with grass. But most fun, for us as designers filled with hidden techniques

A very secure thorn branch armature to hold overgrown Tulips in place

An old tulip trick in a new way to keep the flowers fanned out

I am launching something new this month. I am teaming up with Plant Something BC, our local government and the landscape and nursery societies here in British Columbia, Canada and...

A spring spiral design... with a hint of a root nest. Easy to do

Adding our own "bit" to our floral design work.

Tangle jasmine vines outside a vase for a transparent screen to display floral details on and around a sea horse vase to display floral details in.

Using summery floral details in a way that it gives you all the autumn feelings... when autumn details are not yet out.

Keeping this tulip upright requires less magic and more hot glue skills... but it looks magical never the less.

This is a great "space-keeper" design. The tulip will continue to grow into the vase height as they open... but until then the grass platform part of the design diverts your...

A delicate winter twig armature to show off the delicate beauty of these early spring coloured tulips.

Stand tulips upright in a shallow container with a suspended twig armature.

Wedge twigs into a vase to create a grid.

Manipulate fresh willow stems to create a sprouting armature for long tulip stems

Braid Tulip stems to set in water

Scatter some dried grass to make a floral armature

Float flowers using a bubble wrap raft

Tulips continue to grow once the stem is severed from the bulb. More often than not you can use this growth to create an ever changing design. But sometimes you want that tulip...

Reflex Tulip and Passion Fruit Tendrils in a wax disk