Flowers for Valentine’s Day

My friend, Andrea is one of the most talented people I know. She started as a floral designer and while she’s moved on to other ventures, she still takes on a few events for private clients. When a friend asked her to do the flowers for an important dinner later this week, Andrea said yes, and off to the flower wholesalers we went!

I’d never been to a place like this before, so it was a wonderful adventure! Of course, I couldn’t resist snapping tons of images. The warehouse is huge! There are several huge walk-in cold-boxes and this time of year, they’re filled with thousands of roses.

The roses ran the full spectrum, from the deepest reds to the most gorgeous pale pink David Austin-style ones.

But the warehouse had a lot of other flowers as well like these yummy yellow Ranunculus,

stunning purple orchids,

chrysanthemums which look like something from Dr. Seuss,

hundreds of branches of about-to-bloom forsythia,

and the teeniest, tiniest “pineapples”.

It was so hard to focus on finding a special treat for myself because there was so much to choose from – and this was just one room!

But in the end, I picked out some of my favourite freesias with their peppery sweet fragrance.

Thanks so much to Robin and Potomac Floral Wholesale for patiently answering all of my questions!