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Inspire Showcase

INSPIRE Floral Design Showcase from OASIS Floral Products

The OASIS Floral Products INSPIRE Design Showcase features inspirational user-submitted floral designs for every floral occasion. Selected designs are recreated by a Smithers-Oasis Floral design director and featured in print advertising in North American floral magazines, on this website, our Facebook page and the Idea Weekly blog. Read below about the most inspirational entries in each category for that year, how each was created and about the designer.

For your chance to enter your designs, look for announcements on upcoming INSPIRE Floral Design Showcases by subscribing to IDEA Weekly or regularly visiting the OASIS Floral Products Facebook page.

Is This the Year of the Trendy Floral Prom Cuff?

Is This the Year of the Trendy Floral Prom Cuff?
By Sharon McGukin
“This is the year of the trendy prom cuff,” says Rand Powell of Foley’s Florist in Berea, KY.

Rand considers the ultimate prom challenge to be “creating one-of-a-kind customized designs that reflects the wearer’s dress, her signature style and the designer’s artistic talents.”

Rand created this non-traditional prom wrist corsage, described as[read more]

Use Architectural Elements to Upsell Orchid Plants

Use Architectural Elements to Upsell Orchid Plants
By Sharon McGukin
“Back in the 1980’s a phalaenopsis orchid was a treasured item and a high-end order,” says Lisa Belisle AIFD. “Today you can often buy one in a big box store for $20. Our industry needs to step up our game and sell design, not just a plant in a pot.”

With that goal in[read more]

Can a British Wreath Design Inspire Holiday Sales?

Can a British Wreath Design Inspire Holiday Sales?
By Sharon McGukin
Why recreate a British designer’s holiday wreath design in your floral business?

Because it sells, it’s versatile and can trigger add-on sales.

Not only has this idea successfully crossed the ocean, wreaths are also a good place to make use of leftover flowers.

“This design sells very well for us at Christmas fairs,”[read more]

Passion Inspires a Second Chance—and an “Adjustable” Fall Centerpiece

Passion Inspires a Second Chance—and an "Adjustable" Fall Centerpiece
By Sharon McGukin
Can passion create a second chance to thrive for plants, floral arrangements—and you?

It has for Master Gardener Kathy Bondar, who turned her plant-tending side business into a new floral design career when she lost her job in 2007 during the recession.

Today Kathy’s 2nd Chance Plants is a floral studio with[read more]

5 Inspiring Ideas for a Modern Floral Fall: Cornucopias and Thanksgiving Tablescapes

5 Inspiring Ideas for a Modern Floral Fall: Cornucopias and Thanksgiving Tablescapes
By Sharon McGukin
Can you honor fall traditions in your own fresh and personal floral design way?

You can—and appeal to conservative and free-spirited customers alike.

That’s the lesson from Portland, Oregon, floral designer Meredith Cope. Her modern take on the 1,500-year-old cornucopia inspired four other ideas for contemporary autumn and Thanksgiving floral arrangements.

Could these[read more]

What Can’t you Define but Really Want? Floral Wow.

What Can't you Define but Really Want? Floral Wow.
By Sharon McGukin
It’s impossible to define. There is no formula. It can be maddeningly personal or regional.

Yet people seem to know it when they see it.

What is it? Wow. Arrangements that have it sell. Designers who produce it consistently set themselves apart.

How can you add wow to your designs? Try new styles[read more]

How to design floral arrangements for Native American brides? With respect.

How to design floral arrangements for Native American brides? With respect.
By Sharon McGukin
How can you serve customers with a strong cultural heritage? Ask. Listen. Respect.

That’s the recommendation from Shayai Lucero, shop owner and member of the Acoma and Laguna Pueblo people of New Mexico.

Shayai’s bouquet design for a Native American bride was selected as the Most Inspirational Wedding design in the [read more]

Inspire: Provide the Ultimate Floral Customer Service

Inspire: Provide the Ultimate Floral Customer Service
By Sharon McGukin
Too often we think of sympathy flowers as funeral flowers and lose our creative edge.

Sympathy flowers serve a purpose. They express visible emotional support for the deceased’s friends and family. And helping clients express their emotions with flowers is the ultimate customer service a florist can provide.

“To grow a successful[read more]

Pave’ Your Way to Smashing Small Floral Designs

Pave' Your Way to Smashing Small Floral Designs
By Sharon McGukin
Want to inspire oooooos and ahhhhhhs from smaller designs? Choose clean lines, unique forms and strong color combinations.

That’s the approach of Tre’ Garner, whose modern coral rose pave design with an eucalyptus collar was selected as the most inspirational get-well arrangement in the 2017 INSPIRE Design Showcase.

Tre’ shares her techniques[read more]

How One Floral Designer Uses Accents to Increase Impact—and Profits

How One Floral Designer Uses Accents to Increase Impact—and Profits
By Sharon McGukin
Like most creative florists, Adrianna Duran-Leon AIFD loves experimenting with new products to see what happens. “Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t,” she says.

Her experimental and modern-edgy style of design is popular with her customers, who refer to it as ‘Adri style.’ “When a client requests an ‘Adri design’, I[read more]

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