Green Tuesdays: Green floral practices

A bright bouquet of organic flowers: Flame calla lillies, roses and peonies, by Bella Signature Design. Yum!

Here at Bella Signature Design, we use both green practices in our daily floral work, as well as offering organic and sustainable flowers when available or desired.

What kinds of practices, you ask?

• Only use floral foam when necessary: most brands of floral foam are not bio degradable and include carcinogenic ingredients such as formaldehyde and carbon black. The formaldehyde leaches into the water, and can off-gas.
  
• We never use liquid chemicals in our designs or cut flowers - no flower food, products to make them last longer, etc. We find that by hand-picking the freshest blooms, using quality suppliers and proper hydrating methods, our blooms last as long or longer than florists who dunk their flowers into chemicals.
• we try to use north american flowers first, to avoid the transportation of flowers from south america (where many roses come from). South american roses are also almost always dipped in fungicide!
  
• We have cutting rights in many local farms and gardens, and can get organic hydrangea, garden roses, tulips. calla lillies and dahlias, which also supports these local farms. Not to mention all the fabulous greens (and yet our work is still super lush!)
• we recycle all our packaging
• we email invoices, design proposal and about everything else we can. we pay business bills online.
  
• we turn our floral coolers off when not in use!

When most brides think of organic flowers, they envision wild-flower bouquets or lots of green. Bella Signature Design is known for it's lush look - even when we do use organic and sustainable blooms. Any style, whether contemporary, garden, or superlush can use organic flowers, so don't be afraid to ask your floral designer if they can use any sustainable or organic blooms in your arrangements!

Next green tuesday, more about organic flowers themselves!