TJ McGrath, TJ McGrath Designs shares with us his process to create a memorable statement urn.
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Featured in our the April 2021 issue of Florists’ Review

Tulip Trophy

Relaxed yet formal, this modern styling of tulips makes a grand statement for weddings and other special events.
Floral design and photos by T.J. McGrath, TG McGrath Designs @tjmcgrath

Text by David Coake
Sponsored by American Tulip Growers and their European Suppliers

MATERIALS

BOTANICALS
• Tulipa spp. (tulip and parrot tulip)
• Chaenomeles speciosa (flowering quince, Japanese quince)
• Rumohra adiantiformis (leatherleaf fern, leather fern)
• Philotheca myoporoides [formerly Eriostemon spp.] (long-leaf wax flower)
• Laurus nobilis (bay laurel, laurel, bay, sweet bay)

HARD GOODS
• OASIS™ Florist Netting, OASIS® Clear Tape and FloraLife® SURE-STIK® Floral Adhesive from OASIS Floral Products/Smithers-Oasis Company
• Metal trophy-cup urn

Floral design by Andrea Ancel, AIFD, CFD; FTD Director of Design

Sponsored by FTD

Featured in Florists’ Review April 2021 issue

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MATERIALS

BOTANICALS

FROM FTD FLOWER EXCHANGE

Rosa spp. (hybrid tea rose)

Papaver nudicaule (Iceland poppy, Icelandic poppy, Arctic poppy)

Helleborus orientalis/H. x hybridus (hellebore, Lenten rose)

Hydrangea macrophylla (mini green Hydrangea, mini green hortensia)

Viburnum opulus ‘Roseum’ (snowball, Guelder rose)

Ozothamnus diosmifolius (rice flower)

Daucus carota (Queen Anne’s lace, wild carrot)

Scabiosa stellata (starflower pincushion, paper moon)

Amaranthus caudatus (love-lies-bleeding, tassel flower, foxtail amaranth)

Chaenomeles speciosa (flowering quince, Japanese quince)

x Fatshedera lizei ‘Variegata’ (tree ivy, aralia ivy, bush ivy)

HARD GOODS FROM

FTD MARKETPLACE FTD

Signature Collection Large Cinched Vase (Item #2021L​)

Sponsored by FTD

Julia (Iuliia) Prokhorova, Wild Veggie Bouquet shares how she makes her signature veggie bouquets.

? Award-Winning Floral Designer & Educator
⭐️ Texas Master Florist, internationally published
? Flower delivery, Weddings & Events, Workshops,
EST 2016
wildveggiebouquet.com

Julia was featured in our March 2021 issue of Florists’ Review

Materials used: 2 hors d’oeuvre stands with plates, rectangular design tray, fresh floral foam, waterproof adhesive tape, faux aspidistra ribbon, Uglu dashes, ‘Blushing Akito’ roses, ‘Ilse’ spray roses, soft pink carnations, lavender Japanese asters, ‘Stargazer’ lilies, soft blue belladonna (Rio Products), umbrella fern, Italian ruscus, English ivy, fatsia aralia leaves, and Japanese privet.

Step 1: Take four 1/3 sections of presoaked floral foam and wrap with faux aspidistra ribbon and anchor using Uglu tabs. Set on first plate. Insert roses in one cube, carnations in one, asters and spray roses similarly. Set aside.

Step 2: Set design tray on second plate. Stack first and second stand with plates allowing you to understand design clearance for lower design.

Step 3: Insert a variety of textural foliage including Italian ruscus, English ivy, fatsia aralia, and Japanese privet. Add ‘Stargazer’ lilies, ‘Blushing Akito’ roses, and soft blue belladonna to the lower design. (Rio)

Step 4: To finish, add floral component cubes to top plate of design. As another option, leave the top plater empty to serve hors d’oeuvres on and set floral cubes on satellite plates around the buffet area instead.

Materials used: Metal design bowl, 6 short cardboard shipping tubes, faux aspidistra ribbon, double-sided tape, pan-melt glue, fresh floral foam, waterproof adhesive tape, aspidistra leaves, New Zealand flax, blue belladonna delphinium (Rio) ‘Brighton’ roses (Rio) yellow calla lilies, and yellow pincushion protea.

Step 1: Cover shipping tubes with strips of faux aspidistra ribbon. Attach with stapler and double sided tape to completely cover all of the tubes. Glue fresh flower stems inside 4 of the tubes on two sides with pan melt glue.

Step 2: Set floral foam into your container and anchor with waterproof adhesive tape. Set the 4 shipping tubes on stems into foam at different levels. Carve half round sections of foam on each side and add 2 additional tubes sitting on foam surface. Insert additional fresh variegated aspidistra leaves into foam and allow them to swoop around tubes and anchor with stapler.

Step 3: Form loops of aspidistra by piercing stem though surface creating a loop and tail. Insert multiple aspidistra loops in groupings at the base of the design. Insert tall blue delphinium belladonna (Rio) through tubes and into foam. Continue adding delphinium into tubes and outside as well as short lengths are base of taller tubes. This creates an illusion that the tubes are literally floating in the design.

Step 4: Insert ‘Brighton’ roses (Rio) in strong groupings at the base of the design. Create accordion flax chains but splitting a single flax leaf in half and weaving back and forth. (It’s kind of like paper chains we made as kids.) Insert into foam and knot to strong stems in the design.

Step 5: To finish the design, insert yellow calla lilies surrounding the structure and pincushion protea to add the final drama to the design.