I wanted to share another wedding that I adored working on last season!
Dorie and Steve got married on a pretty September day at
Silverbrook Farm in Hillsboro Virginia. This venue is another one of my
favorites! What's not to love about this gorgeous
spot nestled into the hills of western Loudoun County.
The owners of this farm style B&B have put a unique and extra special
touch on every inch of the property! Its Full of whimsical charm!
Dorie and Steve where a true pleasure to work with. It is so fun meeting
great couples, listening to the vision of their special day and working
to create a visual expression of the love they are celebrating!
When I spoke with Dorie about posting this blog she asked that I mention
how impressed she was with ALL of her vendors. We have some incredible
local talent in this area of Virginia and I am happy and proud to have
the pleasure of working with them all! Thank You Dot Shetterly,
Owner of Silverbrook Farm, Sara and Randy Lawrence, Dot's Grandchildren,
Joan Wolford, Owner of Savoir Fare and the Petals and Hedges team! Our talent
and hard work shined through and helped to create the most
perfect experience for Dorie and Steve, in addition to their family and friends.
The Bride and Groom were able to relax, celebrate and really enjoy
their wedding day. I am also excited to say, that all of the wedding
magic worked! Dorie and Steve will be expecting their first baby girl
in August!!!
We are so excited for the two of you and wish you lots of joy,
love and many happy years to come. Thank you for including us
in your special day.
Check out these pictures taken by Amy Martin,you will fall in love too!
Winter may be cold, dark and windy, but it is also the time of year when we get to dream about all things spring and look at beautiful images of weddings we had the pleasure of designing last season. It is truly like opening a present when I receive photos in my inbox, I get so excited to relive each wedding. With that being said, during the next few weeks I will be sharing a few Petals and Hedges weddings with you that I adored from 2011.
Starting with, Jessica and Josh. I knew I would love this wedding, because they both studied Horticulture in college and were very big on color and the specific varieties of flowers to be used in their arrangements. Their colors where periwinkle blue, purple, lime green and white. Jessica also liked the burlap detail which we included in the design. Whitehall Manor, in Bluemont, Virginia, a romantic venue located in western Loudoun County, was where they chose to have their ceremony and reception. Here are a few images of their wedding photographed by Tara Chandler of Tara Dawn Photography.
In Josh’s boutonniere we used white spray roses, blue delphinium, pennistium grass, blue salvia and blue thistle.
Jessica’s Bouquet had mini green hydrangea, white lisianthus, purple lisianthus, euphorbia snow on the mountain, blue thistle, green and white roses, panicum grass and green millet. Most of the flowers used were fresh picked from Barbara Lamborne’s farm, Greenstone Fields in Purcellville, Virginia.
The centerpieces where designed in pots purchased from a local garden center. We used green roses, hydrangea, panicum grass, jasmine vine, dahlia, salvia, lisanthus, scabiosa pods and eucalyptus.
The bridesmaids carried bouquets of white roses, green hydrangea, lisianthus, blue thistle and panicum grass.
I plan to share more beautiful celebrations with you soon!
Thanks for viewing!
Peace, Petals & Planting,
Morgan
My family and I have been enjoying a nice long vacation in Big Pine Key, Florida. We have been soaking up the sun at the beach, riding bikes, eating lots of fish tacos and relaxing. Our daughters love having our full attention when we are away. Other than working on special projects around the house and working on contracts for this years work season we are completely available to have a good time at the playground, building sandcastles, getting ice cream and fishing with friends. There are so many wonderful things to do and lots of blooming beauties to look at. Being here in the Keys inspired me to create a tropical bouquet. I went to the local florist in Marathon to get a little inspiration and was offered a job!! Hahaha!!! I found more than a few things I just had to have including, purple mokara orchids, mini pink pineapple, lavender tea leaves, red ginger and kiko roses. I have been collecting orchids as much as possible when we are down here and I used one of my mini white orchids that was blooming when we arrived, it smells yummy! Unfortunately I lost the name tag on this variety. I also used air plant, spanish moss, silver button wood and pepper berry from our wooded lot behind the house. All I had was my Iphone for photo taking, so please excuse the poor photo qualty.
We also got to visit with some friends from high school, Veron and Duncan Ennis who live on Sanibel Island. What a great place to live and raise a child! Veron is an amazing artist, (visit her website http://www.veronennis.com.) I am not surprised she has done so well as an artist and writer, she is so inspiring!
She took me to the local ArtWalk, http://www.fortmyersartwalk.com/ in downtown Ft Myers. What a fun experience! I got to meet some wonderful artists and got a tour of the city. It was such a treat to get to visit with them for a few days!
Veron and I at Space 39, Art Walk in Downtown Fort Myers
Love the sun and the sand, but it will be nice to get back to Virginia. I have so many meetings set up with brides when I get back and I can not wait to start planning there floral designs. Im looking forward to my trip to New York City with the Chapel Designers in March. We will be busy meeting legendary designers Mathew Robbins, Tara Guerard. We will also be taking classes with Ariella Chezar at the Flower School of New York. I cannot wait for the upcoming wedding season, not to mention opening the garden center this spring and getting the garden crew started again. I have a feeling 2012 is going to be a great year full of learning, change and success!!! Hope you all are having a great winter season. Thank you for reading!!!
A year ago today we had the pleasure of providing floral arrangements for Alexis and Chris. There wedding took place in Gainesville at The Regency at Dominion Valley. Chris is one of my many cousin’s on my fathers side. The cool part is we not only provided florals for my cousin Chris and Alexis but for all of his sisters Becky, Jessie and Katie whom have all gotten married in the past three years. I wish I had images of them all to show you. We just recently got the images and are happy to share them with you on there one year wedding anniversary!
We wish Alexis and Chris many happy, fun and truly amazing years together. Hope you all enjoy viewing our creations!
This bouquet was created with David Austin Roses, white ranunculus, white hypericum, ornithgalium, dusty miller and black pepper berry. Oh my gosh… I cant forget my favorite White fringed tulip!!
There sweet heart table design with cattleya orchids, grapes, moss, birch bark, deer antlers and pomegranates. There wedding theme was best described as Narnia\winter with a little medieval touch!
We created the table designs with birch bark stumps, white majolica roses, white hypericum, pine, silver brunia berry and seeded eucalyptus.
I had to include this photo because my daughter Barrie in the middle looks so cute and she has grown so much in a year it’s unreal!
You two are super sweet and I Love ya!!! Happy Happy Happy Anniversary and thank you for including us in your special day!!
All images where taken by Missy Mullins Photography
It seems odd to be wishing everyone Happy Holiday’s already, but here we are again with Thanksgiving and Christmas quickly approaching. I wanted to share with you some information about what will be happening at Petals and Hedges for the holiday’s this year. On December 3rd from 10 am – 6 pm you are invited to our annual Holiday Showcase and Open House at Petals and Hedges. This year we are decking out the cabin, located adjacent to the nursery in the main building, with fresh holiday décor for the season. We will have fresh roping, wreath’s, swag’s and fresh greenery for all of your holiday need’s. We have beautiful holiday arrangement’s available for your dining room centerpiece, foyer or just to make your entire house look and feel festive. You may also pre-order arrangement’s adding your personal touches. Our greenhouse will be stocked with poinsettias, paper whites and many other indoor treasures. We will be serving our delicious cider and homemade cookies. We look forward to seeing you.
We are excited to be offering top quality, North Carolina Frasier Fir’s for the tenth season. We will have ordered a limited quality and any special orders and height requirements are now being accepted for pre-order to assure your satisfaction. Concolor Fir’s will not be available due to limited quantity from growers. We want to thank everyone for their patronage this year and we wish you and your family a very happy, safe and enjoyable holiday season and New Year.
Our hours of operation for this holiday season are as follows:
November 25th through December 19th
Thursday through Sunday, 9am – 8pm
After all, it will soon be time to get back to gardening!
Peace, Petals, and Planting,
Morgan
See some inspiration for Holiday Decorating ideas below:
When my husband Donnie and I set out to look for a wedding venue in 2004 there were not many places to choose from locally. Loudoun County now has many vineyards and gorgeous estates that are available for weddings and events. Hillsborough Vineyards was the last place we stumbled upon for our own wedding and fell in love with it right away. It remains my favorite venue for its view, relaxed atmosphere, the multiple areas for guests to gather and mingle. It now has a special place for the bride and her maids to get ready. Additionally, the owners are exceptional. Since our wedding at Hillsborough Vineyard I have had the pleasure of creating flowers for a few weddings that have taken place there. Our bride Christine wanted lilies in white and yellow and also loved other flowers like alstroemeria and spider mums. We created her bouquet out of white hydrangea, white peony, yellow alstroemeria, white and yellow lily, and poppy pods. We wrapped the stems in white satin with a creamy lace overlay.
Altar pieces where a mixture of yellows, peach and coral. My favorite was the foxtail lilly from Greenstone Fields.
The table pieces.
The bridesmaids bouquets.
The boutonnieres along with the cocktail jars the bride wrapped with white string.
The yummy cake!!
I recently made a consult trip to our long time clients and friends Ruth and Hal Douglas. These gardens over the years have been an inspiration to me and many others who have worked on our gardening crew. My mother,sister and I have been helping tend the gardens here for over 20 years. They are always a pleasure to work with and they care so much about their beautiful property and that love shows in every corner and around every turn of their amazing gardens. I wanted to share a few photos that inspired me on my recent visit.
Kalmia ‘Mountain Laurel’ in full bloom behind a stone bench.
Catmint border in the perennial bed.
Papaver somniferum ‘Lettuce leaf poppy’ The pods of this poppy variety are used in floral arrangements and bouquets to add a bit of unusual texture. We have grown these in our gardens for years and they are a treasure in a perennial bed or meadow.
The perennial bed.
Gorgeous and very fragrant ‘Hardy’ pink flowering Jasmine.
Climbing rose in the corner of the patio area.
One of Donnie’s sheds (Walker and Clarke Builders Inc.) on the pool deck.
A big and bountiful blueberry hedge Ruth tends
Just a quick educational tip. These are borers, they look like flying ants and drill into the center stems of roses, tree bark, and in this case, raspberry. These raspberry bushes have been suffering and yellowing due to these pesky boogers!
Last week we were invited to visit the gardens of a good friend and client whom we all love and adore! I closed the nursery that evening went to pick up my girls and rushed over before the storms. We got to eat jelly beans, peanut butter marshmallows and catch up on the happenings around Everhart Farm. The gardens are carefully maintained by Glenda her self and well known Loudoun County gardener Jackie Ellis. The primary show in her lush garden right now were the tulips. Oh the tulips!! The white wisteria was budding and will most likely be blooming next week just in time for a special wedding that we will be working on. Look at the roots on the wisteria they have almost encased the porch pillars. They look like huge pythons! Barrie and Violet really enjoyed their magical time at Everhart Farm, as did I! Thank you Glenda, it is always a pleasure to share time with you in your amazing garden!
Climbing roses on post and chain support system. Awesome!!!
Love this mixture of color and texture! Just takes my breath away!
Love these little girls too!!
Happy girl with some happy Tulips!!
A few weeks ago on April 16th and 17th we had a full and exciting weekend. We had the pleasure of both working on a beautiful wedding in Arlington at the Key Bridge Marriot and setting up our annual display at the Leesburg Flower and Garden Show. For the past few years my husband Donnie of Walker & Clarke Builders has entered the landscape design competition and every year he and his crew build an amazing structure. Of course Petals & Hedges has the job of creating the landscape design and providing the decor and plants to decorate the booth. Last year we built a two story tree house and won second place up against some of the best hardscaping and landscaping professionals in our area. This year we placed third we were happy to place!
Our table in the garden room covered with a carpet of creeping sedum, scented geraniums, succulents.
The shed Donnie built with a green sedum roof and a bird house on top!
Love the hardware on this building and the wooden door Donnie and his crew constructed.
Water feature with a sedum top and moss rock base.
The jasmine vine was a huge hit with our visitors, along with the moss rocks and veggie bed!
Spring perennial border with the Green Beauty boxwood and that gorgeous blue pot with a bright, contrasting viola!
G.A.R.D.E.N!!!
Next up in our busy weekend was the wedding … take a look!
The centerpieces! I love the blue, purple, and green shades together! So pretty!
Mother’s corsages!
Groom’s bout!
The bride’s bouquet. I’m just in love with all these colors!!!
We grew these at the nursery for the bride to put her place cards in for her guests.
Wheat grass and purple lobelia!
Yummmy!!!
We created these on site at the hotel with our nursery-grown wheat grass, tulip, agapanthus. Some other centerpieces included blue iris.
Here we are cutting wheat grass and creating our cocktail arrangements on the loading dock at the hotel.
The view from the ceremony room on the 14th floor!
And that was our weekend!! Thanks for checking it out!
Let me start off by saying that I am absolutely obsessed with doing styled photo shoots. I guess its genetic, my Grandmother Mamie, who owned a dance studio, was a genius with stage production. Pair that with the love of gardening and flowers that I get from my mother, Andrea Watson, and a styled photo shoot is my idea of fun! Petals & Hedges was happy to provide all the floral creations and Vicki Grafton of My Simple Details and Vicki Grafton Photography did an amazing job styling this photo shoot! Her creative touches are wonderful and can be seen in all of the shots of the flowers, the venue, and the models. See more of this shoot at www.vickigraftonphotography.com.
In these photos you can see a sneak peek of a very exciting project on which I have been working. It is a very special property here in Loudoun County that is set to become an truly spectacular venue. Stay tuned for more details … I can’t wait to share this with you!
I visit Elizabeth Anne Designs blog often and was thrilled to see Vicki’s photographs and my floral designs featured in a recent post. Thank you!
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