Part 3 Spring Flower Show 2026

So this arrangement is going to be sort of like a woodland, natural-looking arrangement. This is just an inexpensive florist container. It's like gripper bowl that takes two pieces of floral foam. It's like a green plastic that is used often for, you know, like head tables and weddings and things like that. So it's just a low green dish. I have two blocks of floral foam in here, and then I put moss around to the part that's sticking up and greened in with plumosus fern. And I set the lines with this random greenery that I have growing in the creek, and also some of these little branches here. Do you guys know what these branches are? No. Blueberry. Oh! I didn't know what it was. Because I actually bought this at Torchio, and they didn't know what it was. And I saw these little green, you know, sprouts on them. This is so beautiful with the red stem. And then when I got home, I saw little tiny berries on them. So these are blueberry stems. I just thought it's really pretty and wispy-looking. So basically, I have a tall and a slightly lower structural height. And I want it to look like a woodland garden. And so I greened in with natural-looking greenery, ferns, and this, it's in the baby's breath family. What's this called? Saponara, something like that? Anyway, it's this little flower here. And it's going to be an all-white arrangement with sort of wildflower-looking white flowers. So I have larkspur, oralea, sweet pea. And this is campanulas and love-in-mists. I grew all the love-in-mists. It naturalizes in the garden. I grew it from seed a couple years ago, and now I don't have to plant it. It just like self-sows. This is called love-in-mists. Love-in-mists. They come in like a beautiful, periwinkle blue or white. So this is going to be more of a vertical arrangement. It's growing from a woodland metal floor. So I added the bellflowers. I'm going to add some more vertical flowers. These are white larkspur. I'm growing this. It's called oralea. I love this flower. It's sort of like a cross between a queen-ann's lace and a scabiosa. Queen-ann's lace I love, but it's sometimes too big for certain arrangements, so this is a good size. Oralea. I grew that from seed, and now I just collect the seeds. In like September, October, I let it go to seed, and just direct sow it next year. Just adding lots of white, wispy flowers. So when I was in design school, this is called a vegetative design. I added some sweet peas and green hellebore, and a little bit of the white alba-maiden rose. Almost done. I'm growing tons of this beautiful maidenhair fern. I have this growing in the deep shade, under like a porch area. It's at the foundation of my house. So I planted like 12 of these southern maidenhair ferns. They're okay. They don't take too much. You have to water it regularly, but it's not that bad. And they just, they're easy actually. I never thought I could grow this here, but I have a neighbor who had tons of it, and I thought, well, you know, she's right where we are, and she can grow it in the heat of Walnut Creek, so we can too. Just adding some of the wispy ferns. Okay, I think we're done with this one. Those of you who have watched me on YouTube, or have seen my shows, know that I love making these little handles from beautiful floral material. This is the last of the deutzia in my garden. This is a wonderful plant called deutzia. It just blooms once in the spring. And I have a deutzia that's small, that's like maybe 18 inches tall, and this one is like eight feet tall. And the 18 inch one is white, and this one is pink. And so it's not the longest lasting flower, and this is the very last of it. I was hoping there would be enough to show you, but I wanted to show you what a stem of it looks like. So all I did was put two stems in here, and then tie them, tie them off at the top. And you could do that with pink jasmine, or spirea, you know, all sorts of things like that. This is called deutzia, D-U-T-Z-I-A, or D-E-U-T-Z-I-A. Unfortunately it's a little bit wilted, I assembled this like a couple days ago. But you get the idea. So this is just a, like a fruit bowl or something, right? Like a woven compote basket, and we're just making a basket handle with the natural material. And this is where I'm going to show you all my pink roses from the garden. They're all jammed in here. It's not that big. I have two adjoining gardens. I live next door to my parents, and so I think together is maybe less than an acre. This everyone knows is the Eden climber, right? It's a wonderful, wonderful rose. Blooms non-stop, really easy, disease resistant. If you have space in the garden to add a climber, this is a great one. It's called Eden climber. Yes, there's red Eden. I had a red Eden. I had a rose tunnel. We had like successive arches with vine roses, but it got taken down this last year because we built a pool, and that's the only way for them to get the equipment in and out. This is another rose that's gorgeous, gorgeous. It's sort of new. I've only had this for three years. It's called Boscobel, Boscobel, I don't know how to pronounce it. Boscobel from David Austin. So I've added the Boscobel there. This is a really beautiful pink rose called the Huntington rose. It's a David Austin rose named for the Huntington Library in Pasadena. I'm going to add some large peonies since my pink roses are kind of at its end. Duccia, duccia, duccia, duccia, duccia. I think there are a lot of different types of duccia, and I have two different ones. One is a small white vining plant, and this is a really big, tall, white, tall pink one. Add some of the lush sweet peas. These are so pretty. They smell so great. Good job. Yeah, both. They kind of go together. I added some snowball viburnum. The pink stalk. Sure. Oh no, what am I going to do with it? I love this color of stalk. That's with the stalk. Yeah, well, yes and no. I just like all the different textures, right? I'm always careful to pick flowers that look like they're garden flowers. A little bit of mott orange. Okay, there's our pink rose basket. Alright, this is your bonus arrangement. Something whimsical and silly. A little floral purse. So, I love doing stuff like this. It's creative, you don't need a lot of flowers, and it's a lot of fun. It's just an inexpensive little vase like this. And I just glued this beautiful foliage around it. And then we just made a little flap. And of course, I had a rhinestone buckle. And this is super easy. You just cut everything really short and fill in the little empty areas of the purse. And this salmon pink rose is that tournament roses I have. It's a great rose. It's a floribunda, and it's always in bloom, lasts a long, long time. I need to go in even more. And I just made a little handle with a little raffia leaf ribbon and wire. Oh, it's just my name. Catherine Bergman Floral. I don't think we have room for much stuff in here. I think this is done. Don't hold it by the handle, okay? It's a fake handle. I didn't get to use this rose. I have a hedge of this. It's a fabulous rose called Royal Wedding. I think I bought it from Jackson Perkins a long time ago. Okay, well, thank you, ladies. Questions, questions. I have over 100 rose bushes. But not 100 different varieties, because I have some hedges and things like that. Okay, thank you, darling. Thank you, Catherine. This is just fabulous.