Amazing Amaryllis
Posted in Adult Education, People on December 17 2013, by Joyce Newman
Joyce H. Newman holds a Certificate in Horticulture from The New York Botanical Garden and has been a Tour Guide for over seven years. She is a blogger for Garden Variety News and the former editor of Consumer Reports GreenerChoices.org.
Nancy White, owner of The Flower Bar in Larchmont, N.Y. is a graduate of NYBG’s Floral Design Certificate program and current instructor. But that’s not the real reason we’re talking about her. Recently, White created a beautiful and unique seasonal floral design that deserves highlighting.
“One of our customers asked for a holiday arrangement including amaryllis,” so White put together a “living garden” consisting of amaryllis, frosted fern, and cyclamen, accented with red dogwood branches, pine cones, and holiday evergreens. “We didn’t expect to get such positive feedback, but it really took off.”
Since the original design, White and her staff have created quite a few more of these beautiful holiday displays. The plants are housed in plastic pots, and then placed in wooden or tin window box style containers to create the garden effect. White says that the popularity of these arrangements proves that, sometimes, “People just want something different!”
