Flower Power — The Best Winter Florals

While winter can be bleak, it doesn’t mean your floral arrangements have to be. Kari Gronseth, Event Specialist with Event Lab, expertly combines some of the season’s most stunning florals and greens to create colorful and fragrant arrangements that decorate everything from registration tables, entranceways, and dining tables to bridal bouquets.

Winter is one of my favorite seasons for florals. Starting in mid-November the cases of Port Orford cedar, white pine, noble fir, juniper, berries, and branches start arriving and the scents are amazing.

Greenery is still a huge trend right now and wonderfully aromatic winter evergreens are a stunning addition to any floral arrangement.

Eye-catching floral blooms like roses, tulips, ranunculus, anemone, and callas are popular in the winter and available in many colors.

Amaryllis is a flower I like to use in the winter when I need a large bloom and I don’t want to use hydrangea or lilies. And of course, garden roses in a variety of colors are a wonderful substitute for peonies in the winter. There’s simply nothing like the fragrance of roses.

Along with evergreens, I love incorporating beautiful textures into my arrangements, including eucalyptus greens, such as silver dollar, seeded, willow, and baby eucalyptus. They come in gorgeous shades of green that work well in arrangements and bouquets and can withstand a little cold weather if photos are taken outside. Readily available in winter, winter berries, silver brunia, ornamental kale, pomegranates, artichokes, and pine cones are additional elements and textures I like to integrate into my arrangements

Winter floral options are bountiful and some of my favorite elements with which to work. While others long for spring blooms, I can’t wait until next November and my cases of evergreens and berries to arrive.

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Kari Gronseth, Event Specialist | Event Lab | KGronseth@eventlab.net

Kari Gronseth grew up working in her grandmother’s gardens, growing award-winning roses, and learning how to set a beautiful table for a dinner party at a young age. Combining a background in Interior Design and an obsession with weddings and floral, she has been in the wedding industry for over 12 years. Kari spent a year taking classes in Minneapolis for floral design, and spent time working in one of the top floral shops in the Twin Cities, watching and learning from the best. Kari and her team create stunning, creative designs, and bring any Pinterest board to life.

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