Yesterday (August 4th) in the New York Times Home and Garden section, there was a whole article titled “Flower Arranging Finds a Younger Audience”.
Beautiful Blooms Boutique on Liberties Walk already offers monthly Floral Design workshops so for more info contact us at 215-925-3111. See photo below of a workshop at BB in progress.
Here’s an excerpt from the article from the New York Times……
THE first time I bought flowers for myself was about five years ago at the Greenmarket in Union Square, in the midst of the hottest, dullest days of summer. Feeling very alone that afternoon for a reason now forgotten, I stood admiring some tulips. For $8 they could be mine. I was in my mid-20s and it seemed like such a luxury to buy myself flowers for no reason, no occasion. But that day I had the money in my wallet, and soon I was carrying the tulips home. I stuck them in a glass pitcher and watched them bloom, until their stems bowed and swept the tabletop and the petals all dropped off.
Over time, I became a regular flower buyer, at farmers’ markets on weekends or at the bodega on the way home from work. The bodega tulips were often the color of margarine and just as engineered. I loved them anyway.
Yet arranging flowers was something I avoided. As with baking sourdough bread or building bookshelves, I was too intimidated to try, especially since buying individual stems can be expensive. Easier to buy a bunch of the same flower, or two or three kinds at most, snip their stems and plop them in water, all while handling them as little as possible.
It turns out that I am not alone in wanting instruction: flower-arranging classes are on the upswing. Established institutions have long offered programs in traditional arranging, but newer schools, with a natural, free-form aesthetic, have begun popping up across the country, part of a swell of enthusiasm for things homemade.
“I think it might have something to do with a younger audience seeing all the great design on blogs,” said Brooke Howsley, a floral designer in Austin, Tex. “Floral classes used to be for the blue-haired ladies, right?”
To continue reading this article from the New York Times follow this link http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/garden/05flower.html?_r=1&hp
We hope you will give us a call at the Beautiful Blooms Boutique in Northern Liberties, Philadelphia and sign up for one of our workshops. They are a great learning experience and a lot of fun. 215-925-3111