Anna and Kevin October 8, 2011

I got to know Anna very quickly when she contacted me shortly before her wedding and asked me to be her florist.  She had a hard time narrowing down her colour scheme but in the end she went back to what she had loved from the start: a black, white and grey colour scheme.  Anna loved the moonvista carnations I used in many bouquets because "they look black" she told me.  Along with the carnations I added very dark burgundy dahlia, grey dusty miller and echiveria and finally white spray roses.
Thanks to Christopher Porto for capturing the day!

For the maid of honor we used smaller versions of the echiveria used in Anna's bouquet

For the groom Anna wanted to use the carnations again along with silver berzillia berries and dusty miller

For the Flower girl (and Anna's beautiful daughter) we used a massing of moonvista carnations and dusty miller foliage

The ceremony arrangements were a massing and mounding of commercial (football) mums, spray roses, dahlia, carnations, berzillia berries, rhamnas berries, dusty miller and diablo ninebark foliage

Thanks for allowing Lush to be a part of your special day Anna and Kevin!

Jess and Rob July 31, 2011

The first time I met Rob Tyndall he was expertly sliding down a curling sheet...I think that's what they call it....
I however was looking anything but graceful as I clumsily slid down the sheet (of ice) on my knees. 
I was a student at the Niagara Parks School of Horticulture and he was my Entomology teachers son.  You can imagine how old I felt when a few years later little Rob Tyndal met me at the bridal show with his lovely fiance Jessica Button.
Jess and Rob are huge foodies and decided to host their reception at the Benchmark Restaurant on the Niagara College campus.  The grounds of the school provided a great space for an outdoor ceremony as well.  All images taken by Joshua Kraemer .

The colour scheme for the wedding was black, white, lime green and hot pink  for the bride we used white calla lilies, green fuji mums, green hypericum berries, white hydrangea, clematis seed heads, brain celosia and diablo ninebark foliage (for the touch of black)

Crisp and clean calla lily with hypericum, foliage and a ribbon wrap



The beautiful flower girl and her celosia and hypericum fairy wand



The centerpieces were kept very minimal but striking and complimented the burst of pink in the napkins perfectly.  A black band of ribbon was added to each vase to bring the final wedding colour in.

Lush does not do cakes but I had to include these pictures as I think this is one of the most amazing cake flowers I have ever seen....so like the real fuji mums in Jess's bouquets!  It was created by the talent at Benchmark Restaurant as well!

It's begining to look festive here at Lush!

I know it's holiday time when my hands are covered in sticky sap splotches, friends are picking needles out of my hair saying "see you have been working today" and what's that in my eye?....yep sparkles.  Hazard of the job I guess and I would not change it for a thing.

We have been hosting urn workshops for gatherings big and small, working on custom orders for clients and dressing up business fascades.  Here is just a sampling:

We dressed up the fascade of Chakra Spa in Ridgeway with lime and silver urns.  These fantastic branches are corkscrew hazel.  Douglas Fir and White pine were grouped to give a more modern feel .  Lime green mesh, silver balls and silver containers brought the look together.

Copper, brown and birch...perfect combo

Have You Finished All Of Your Shopping Yet?

If not Lush can create you a stunning arrangement that anyone would love.  We can even deliver this stunning arrangement up until Christmas eve!  We accept cash, debit, Mastercard or Visa.  Here is a small sampling of some of our favorite arrangements.

Holly berries, cotton, moss and festive greens

Say Merry Christmas with some Kale!

Amaryllis...My fav!

For the nature lover

Merry Christmas to all from Lush Florals!

Better late than never...The Niagara Fall Wedding Show!

This past October Lush exhibited at the Niagara Fall Wedding Show with the Niagara Wedding Center.  In one location brides have access to Liquid Entertainment, Gala Decor and Dynasty Limousine and Lush!  We had a fabulous time meeting new brides for 2012 and beyond.

The Niagara Wedding Center crew 









(that's a mirrored pedestal reflecting the carpet just incase you were wondering)

The Niagara Wedding Center will be exhibiting at the Hamilton/ Halton Spring Wedding Show on Jan 7 and 8 at the Hamilton Convention Center as well as the Niagara Spring Wedding Show Jan 15 and 16 at the Holiday Inn St. Catharines

Sarah and Dan October 15, 2011

Sarah came to Lush with a fiery fall colour scheme and a precisie vision of her wedding bouquets.  We ran with that idea and helped tie in her reception at Legends Golf Course.  Amanda Lachapelle captured all of the beautiful images of the day, thanks so much!!

Sarah's bouquet consisted of calla lilies, orange dahlia, red gerbera, orange protea, green bells of ireland, safari sunset leucadendron and red hypericum berries.

The guys opted for simple boutonnieres of calla lilies, hypericum berries all wrapped in chocolate ribbon with a copper wire accent

Sarah's centerpieces were submerged mokara orchids wired onto curly willow branches.  Floating cranberries finished the arrangement.

Sarah's ceremony/reception arrangements (no this picture is NOT taken by Amanda : )

The Sister Biz

If you haven't heard me mention it already (fat chance) my sister is a creative genius.  She has the voice of an angel: check it out, I'm not kidding Valery Gore  AND she takes amazing pictures Kings + Queens.  So it only makes sence that we combine our creativity for a couple of stylized shoots this past year.  I have combined all three into an ode to the Gore girls Enjoy!

This series of pictures was shot in Valery's veggie garden as we wanted a very organic feel to them.  My cousin Kim was our lovely model.  Kim's bouquet was a mix of grey echiveria, brunnia and begonia foliage, yellow craspedia clematis seed heads and asclepias.

The next shoot was our picnic inspired theme.  Val shot my fav new Lush image for our brand seen above.
We shot this series of pictures down on the waterfront in Toronto.  Our good friends Linda and Jordan were our wonderful models.

Jordans boutonniere was a mix of crabapples, elderberry, echiveria blooms and dusty miller foliage.  Linda's bouquet was created using elderberries, piano garden roses, red brain celosia, echiveria blooms, dusty miller and heuchera foliage and finished with tulle in turquise and aqua.

I had to re-post the following images as well as some new additions of a shoot we did in the early spring.  We chose a retro literature theme filled with bold colours.

Jessica's bouquet was filled with poppies, craspedia, hellebores,  ranunculus, kangaroo paw and podophyllum foliage. 
All cakes and cupcakes were provided by The Happy Baker