Speaking of floral design. I have run into a snafu as far as availability of larkspur which we use in a lot of bouquets. I have ready access to the deep blue/purple. However, the pink larkspur is difficult to find as is the white/cream. Many growers suffered losses of these colors last year for unknown reason, which caused a shortage. At Lavender Rose Farms, we will to start growing larkspur along with other cut flowers this year. Since it’s early May, we do not have a crop right now and other growers are sold out of what was produced last year. Leading me to a dilemma on some of my designs.
So, I will rework these designs that rely on the larkspur. Summer Festival, Country Meadow, Lavender and Larkspur, Mountain Meadow, Woodland Bouquets, Peony Jewel and possibly a few other designs use either pink or ivory larkspur or both. These colors schemes can be be substituted with other flowers such as pink or ivory peonies or pink or ivory strawflowers and natural ivory/white baby’s breath and pink gomphrena. There really are a lot of different options to substitute the pink and ivory color scheme. Most bouquets it will not make a significant impact to the design. As I said the deep blue/purple Larkspur is still available and will use this in designs.
If you place an order I can send a picture with the new flowers added for approval before shipping. Mostly, though you just have to trust my design sense to rework the flowers available for the ones not available. By my past work, I believe you will find I am pretty good at customizing and redesigning bouquets. Floral design does require artistic eyes and impression. So I am confident I can rework things for great result. As soon as I have new pictures I can add them to the listings.
Larkspur will be available again later in the summer so don’t worry it will return to the line up. We will return to using it unless we find clients like the new designs better. You never know!
This is reminder that dried flowers are a natural product and crop. Like any other farmers, flower farmer’s crops have good years and less successful years. It’s part of growing anything natural. Very reliant on multiple factors. Crops have good years and bad years and we just adjust.
As for now, I have strawflowers on order and will have them in soon and I have peonies in stock. I will post a few stock photos of the new flowers below. I do have a little ivory and pink larkspur in stock, which I will use until they are gone.
Thanks for the support and understanding!
Elaine
