Pick-me-up

Old leather has been cut into strips to create beautiful vases and placed on a cork base. Waterproof paper drinking cups have been placed inside the vases. Spring bouquets in fresh white tones are arranged in the leather vases, featuring sprouting alder catkins, Allium, hyacinth, ranunculus, and fragrant Freesia.

Surprising

Iron rings are attached to sturdy plane tree branches with wool. The rings are wrapped and spanned with different colors of wool, creating beautiful bouquet frames. In the spring bouquets, bright cheerful flower colors are combined with the fresh green of Asparagus and the Chasmantium. Bright yellow French tulip, Sandersonia, small white Allium, Ranunculus ‘Cloony’, ginster and Scabiosa. All stems are tied together with Thypha leaf and each bouquet is placed in a high narrow vase.

Spring swing

For this beautiful hanging spring object, the base consists of robust lianas with rope tied together and filled with blue multiflora hyacinths and Muscari. Several glass tubes with Clematis 'Star River' are placed in between as an extra surprise effect. Ideal for a spring event.

'Be sure to capitalize on the fragrance'

Spring is bursting out again and the splendor of colors appears in the form of budding branches, bulbs emerging from the ground, and blossoms bursting into bloom. Green stylist Sjacco Gerritsen can get excited about it every year. 'Spring is the period from which we at Fleur Inn green styling get a lot of energy. New year, new opportunities, and you always notice that customers are eager to make their house and garden cozy again with spring flowers.

'We use a lot of extending branches and a lot of natural materials. In addition, it is also very exciting and surprising to play with scent. That sometimes fades into the background a bit.'

‘The scent of spring: daffodils, mimosa, hyacinths, lilies: you notice that customers in the store love that. Real spring is in color, scent and design – we as florists can do a lot with that. And above all, also seduce the customer.’

'Spring means color and wonder to me'

In addition to running her company Hilde in huis, floral artist Hilde Pit teaches four days a week at a VMBO-groen school where she introduces students to the floral industry during flower & design classes. ‘Students inspire me with their wonder at certain materials, which makes it all the more fun to inspire them again with new materials.’

‘I grew up with the Weerribben-Wieden National Park as my backyard. This is where my love for the outdoors and beautiful materials from nature originated. For me, spring means fine materials, color, and wonder. Seeing the buds come back on the trees and the first fresh sprigs in the garden: fantastic.’

‘In this season I use bright colors in combination with pastel, all mixed together. I love headstrong materials: fragile ranunculus but also tulips that happily decide which way they grow. Today's customer appreciates the flowers much more as they are now, little foliage, purity. That is something of recent years, but I am sure that customers will appreciate that even more in the coming period.

Spring symphony

Spring is arriving. And that can be noticed as early as February, although of course it can still be quite wintery well into March and even April. But for now, the outside temperature has been very mild for weeks this year, which is why the bulbs are sprouting from the ground in the garden, the branches are budding, and the birds, judging by their chirping, also clearly have spring in their heads.