Recently, the fleursBELLA team took a trip upstate to meet some of our local flower farmers. We enjoyed meeting the wonderful folks from The Flower and The Leaf and Rock Steady Farm & Flowers. We learned what they are doing to help our planet and still provide gorgeous and sustainable flowers to the industry. We also learned the steps they each personally take to give back to the community. We had a blast with them and came back truly inspired. Take a look at our photos and see all the local beauty….

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This October we had the wonderful privilege of working with the Hispanic Society of America for their 2019 Gala. The Hispanic Society hosted its annual gala at the refined Metropolitan Club New York. Please view our process from preparation to installation.

On June 4th, 2019 Brooklyn Botanical Garden celebrated their annual Spring Gala. The honorees were Donnel Baird and Keith Kinch, Cofounders of BlocPower. BlocPower is a startup that markets and finances the installation of energy efficiency and renewable technologies in religious institutions, small businesses, and non-profits in under-served communities. A well deserved reason to celebrate. Keeping in harmony with the honoree and BBG’s own sustainable practices, Bella’s designs were free of floral foam. An initiative close to Bella’s heart. Please view the photo gallery, to see our process. 

One may ask what inspires someone to seek work within the industry of floral design. Perhaps it's the love of nature, the feeling of stems and leaves between fingers, or creating a small contained bit of color. For me in particular, it was the desire to have flowers everywhere. When someone would send flowers to the house, no matter how beautiful the arrangement, I would take it apart to touch, inhale, rebuild. A vase in the kitchen, a small bud vase by the bathroom sink or to the side of the bed. This placement always added so much joy! A spark of color is the perfect accoutrement. It may also have been sparked by the love of climbing trees, making more than just tents made of blankets, but creating arches of pine, and garlands of marigolds. Flowers should be everywhere.

To celebrate the success of Signature Theatre selling 1 million theatre tickets. We created a Vanda Orchid mobile with ticket streamers, which allowed guests to walk under the purple rain as they enter the evening. We also created metal birch trees with led lights to light up the evenings special event. See the process from start to finish below…