The color scheme was green and white. Adding a touch of lavender, pink, and yellow enhanced the white color of the flowers and the green of the foliage. All floral materials were sustainably grown at Cedarmere Farm and artfully designed by the Cedarmere Floral Studio team.
Photo credit: Nina Chappel Photography
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Bluebird populations declined drastically between 1920-1970 due to habitat loss, pesticide use, weather changes, snag (dead tree) removal, influx of house cats, and the introduction of the house sparrow and the European starling, which are both cavity nesters like Bluebirds, but more aggressive.
Bluebirds are migratory; they summer in Canada and winter in Central America. But, as we’ve observed at Cedarmere, they will reside year round in Virginia so long as they can find food, water, and thickets for shelter. In the spring, females will lay 1-6 eggs, one a day. My husband Bob loves tending to their nesting boxes and checking on the newly hatched babies. But we keep our distance starting no later than 12 days after hatching because there’s a risk that they will prematurely fledge from the box, and will most likely perish because they cannot fly. Bob also diligently cleans the old nests after a brood fledges. This helps the parents build a new nest for their next brood. They may produce three broods a year.
Not only do these native birds add much joy to our landscape, but they also help keep bugs in check because they feed mostly on insects and berries during the breeding period, and primarily berries in the winter. Native plants like dogwoods, eastern red cedar, holly, pokeweed, and viburnums offer berries the bluebirds love.
Efforts in providing nest boxes specifically for bluebirds have helped their numbers rebound, but they still need our help. One excellent source for Bluebird boxes is the Audubon Society: https://www.theaudubonshop.com/product/bluebird-nesting-box/ (https://www.theaudubonshop.com/product/bluebird-nesting-box/)
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One of our favorite conservation efforts here at Cedarmere is to help the eastern bluebird thrive. They need us and we need them.
Bluebird populations declined drastically between 1920-1970 due to habitat loss, pesticide use, weather changes, snag (dead tree) removal, influx of house cats, and the introduction of the house sparrow and the European starling, which are both cavity nesters like Bluebirds, but more aggressive.
Bluebirds are migratory; they summer in Canada and winter in Central America. But, as we’ve observed at Cedarmere, they will reside year round in Virginia so long as they can find food, water, and thickets for shelter. In the spring, females will lay 1-6 eggs, one a day. My husband Bob loves tending to their nesting boxes and checking on the newly hatched babies. But we keep our distance starting no later than 12 days after hatching because there’s a risk that they will prematurely fledge from the box, and will most likely perish because they cannot fly. Bob also diligently cleans the old nests after a brood fledges. This helps the parents build a new nest for their next brood. They may produce three broods a year.
Not only do these native birds add much joy to our landscape, but they also help keep bugs in check because they feed mostly on insects and berries during the breeding period, and primarily berries in the winter. Native plants like dogwoods, eastern red cedar, holly, pokeweed, and viburnums offer berries the bluebirds love.
Efforts in providing nest boxes specifically for bluebirds have helped their numbers rebound, but they still need our help. One excellent source for Bluebird boxes is the Audubon Society: https://www.theaudubonshop.com/product/bluebird-nesting-box/ (https://www.theaudubonshop.com/product/bluebird-nesting-box/)
#bluebirds #audubonsociety #conservation
#charlottesville
One of our favorite conservation efforts here at Cedarmere is to help the eastern bluebird thrive. They need us and we need them.
Bluebird populations declined drastically between 1920-1970 due to habitat loss, pesticide use, weather changes, snag (dead tree) removal, influx of house cats, and the introduction of the house sparrow and the European starling, which are both cavity nesters like Bluebirds, but more aggressive.
Bluebirds are migratory; they summer in Canada and winter in Central America. But, as we’ve observed at Cedarmere, they will reside year round in Virginia so long as they can find food, water, and thickets for shelter. In the spring, females will lay 1-6 eggs, one a day. My husband Bob loves tending to their nesting boxes and checking on the newly hatched babies. But we keep our distance starting no later than 12 days after hatching because there’s a risk that they will prematurely fledge from the box, and will most likely perish because they cannot fly. Bob also diligently cleans the old nests after a brood fledges. This helps the parents build a new nest for their next brood. They may produce three broods a year.
Not only do these native birds add much joy to our landscape, but they also help keep bugs in check because they feed mostly on insects and berries during the breeding period, and primarily berries in the winter. Native plants like dogwoods, eastern red cedar, holly, pokeweed, and viburnums offer berries the bluebirds love.
Efforts in providing nest boxes specifically for bluebirds have helped their numbers rebound, but they still need our help. One excellent source for Bluebird boxes is the Audubon Society: https://www.theaudubonshop.com/product/bluebird-nesting-box/ (https://www.theaudubonshop.com/product/bluebird-nesting-box/)
#bluebirds #audubonsociety #conservation
#charlottesville
My favorite tool is the Japanese Kenzan — “flower frog” or “pin frog” in the US — a relatively heavy metal plate with needles to which floral materials can be affixed. Kenzan is an indispensable tool in the Japanese classical art of flower arranging, Ikebana.
The Kenzan avoids the use of environmentally unfriendly floral foam and encourages thoughtful planning and deliberate placement of individual flower materials, thus minimizing waste and facilitating graceful and balanced designs with an airy and uncluttered look.
The design featured in this post leans Eastern, emphasizing lines, visual movement, and negative (empty) space, but Kenzans can also be used in Western style arrangements with massed groupings of flowers and colors. Or, as I often do, fuse both styles in your designs.
Please email me: christaatcedarmerefarm@
gmail.com if you are interested in learning how to incorporate Kenzans in your designs. If there is enough interest, we will host a workshop at the farm.
Cedarmerefarm.com
[email protected]
#barnwedsing #farmwedding #sustainable #wedding #venue #weddingflowers #charlottesville #flowerworkshops #VisitCville #fieldtovase
#fieldtotable #grownotflown
#cutflower #flowerfarm #slowflower #farmvenue #floristcharlottesville #sustainableflowers #seasonalflowers #localflowers #kenzan #flowerfrog
My favorite tool is the Japanese Kenzan — “flower frog” or “pin frog” in the US — a relatively heavy metal plate with needles to which floral materials can be affixed. Kenzan is an indispensable tool in the Japanese classical art of flower arranging, Ikebana.
The Kenzan avoids the use of environmentally unfriendly floral foam and encourages thoughtful planning and deliberate placement of individual flower materials, thus minimizing waste and facilitating graceful and balanced designs with an airy and uncluttered look.
The design featured in this post leans Eastern, emphasizing lines, visual movement, and negative (empty) space, but Kenzans can also be used in Western style arrangements with massed groupings of flowers and colors. Or, as I often do, fuse both styles in your designs.
Please email me: christaatcedarmerefarm@
gmail.com if you are interested in learning how to incorporate Kenzans in your designs. If there is enough interest, we will host a workshop at the farm.
Cedarmerefarm.com
[email protected]
#barnwedsing #farmwedding #sustainable #wedding #venue #weddingflowers #charlottesville #flowerworkshops #VisitCville #fieldtovase
#fieldtotable #grownotflown
#cutflower #flowerfarm #slowflower #farmvenue #floristcharlottesville #sustainableflowers #seasonalflowers #localflowers #kenzan #flowerfrog
Sustainable, foam-free floral designs are what we emphasize at Cedarmere Floral Design Studio. My favorite tool is the Japanese Kenzan — “flower frog” or “pin frog” in the US — a relatively heavy metal plate with needles to which floral materials can be affixed. Kenzan is an indispensable tool in the Japanese classical art of flower arranging, Ikebana.
The Kenzan avoids the use of environmentally unfriendly floral foam and encourages thoughtful planning and deliberate placement of individual flower materials, thus minimizing waste and facilitating graceful and balanced designs with an airy and uncluttered look.
The design featured in this post leans Eastern, emphasizing lines, visual movement, and negative (empty) space, but Kenzans can also be used in Western style arrangements with massed groupings of flowers and colors. Or, as I often do, fuse both styles in your designs.
Please email me: christaatcedarmerefarm@
gmail.com if you are interested in learning how to incorporate Kenzans in your designs. If there is enough interest, we will host a workshop at the farm.
Cedarmerefarm.com
[email protected]
#barnwedsing #farmwedding #sustainable #wedding #venue #weddingflowers #charlottesville #flowerworkshops #VisitCville #fieldtovase
#fieldtotable #grownotflown
#cutflower #flowerfarm #slowflower #farmvenue #floristcharlottesville #sustainableflowers #seasonalflowers #localflowers #kenzan #flowerfrog
Did you know that one out of every three bites of food we consume is thanks to pollinators like honeybees, butterflies, birds, and bats?
As pollinators feast on nectar and pollen, they brush against flowers’ reproductive parts depositing pollen, resulting in growth of a fruit or seed. Many plants cannot reproduce without pollinators!
Our survival depends on their survival! Yet, our pollinators face many challenges in the modern world: habitat loss, disease, parasites, and environmental contaminants. Pollinators need to be able to find the right quantity and quality of food within flight range to thrive.
At Cedarmere, we strive to plant a continuous food supply from early spring to late fall to provide adequate food for our flighty friends when they emerge from and then prepare for winter hibernation. We do this by growing plants of varying seasonality and different heights, growth habits, and flowers of different sizes, shapes, and colors to support as many different pollinators as we can. Combined with a variety of native plant species, heirloom plants, and herbs, we support a diverse array food of and shelter for these essential partners of ours.
Please join us in this effort. No piece of land is too small to plant a couple of flowers or a bush to help them in their life journey.
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An important design principle: Rhythm.
In addition to balance (discussed in my post on 5/10/2022), rhythm adds life to a floral arrangement. Rhythm refers to the visual flow in an arrangement, which helps move the eye through the entire design. There are several ways to accomplish this visual rhythm. In this arrangement, I use repetition of colors, textures, placement, and lines throughout the arrangement, and I added long and airy stems of flowers or leaves to radiate out from inside the arrangement as well as using floral elements to cascade down over the vessel.
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A bridal installation with flowers from Cedarmere. Peach and lavender are such a romantic color combo.
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Planning the wedding: Most important decision is the backdrop for the chuppah.
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#charlottesville
Delightful tulips basking in the sun at Cedarmere.
Fingers crossed, will have dahlias for a few more weeks.
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#grownotflown
#slowflower
#slowliving
#flowerfarm
#flowerworkshop
#weddingflowers
