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28 May | 2021 Leatal Cohen Pic and Petal, Brooklyn, N.Y. @picandpetal | picandpetal.com | Photography by Leatal Cohen, Pic and Petal For this project, I knew I wanted to create an installation rather than a flower arrangement in a vase. When I saw the flowers from Ball SB, I immediately noticed a color story—tons of yellow and complementary hues of the blue and purple. I wasn't sure what story I was going to tell until the day before I got the flowers, when one of my brides shared with me her vision for her wedding. She had to cancel her original wedding in 2020 because of the pandemic, and she told me that she wanted to evoke the theme of "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade." So, I decided to create a flower installation to represent her lemons/lemonade idea. I created a floating " lemonade pitcher" pouring out the " lemonade" of bright, vibrant yellow flowers onto the table and overflowing off of it, to represent us coming together as a society, and I used the cool hues of the purple stocks, Delphinium, eggplant and purple potatoes to represent the darker days of the pandemic. Ana Isabel Vivas Aniska Creations Miami, Fla. @aniskascreations aniskacreations.com Sunflowers remind me of Venezuela, my home. ey bloom all over in my hometown. When I received the box from Ball SB, I was so excited to see a flower so familiar to me and yet a variety that I had never seen before ['ProCut Series White Lite']. I really wanted to showcase the sunflowers as the stars in my design, and I chose other flowers to create a broader creamy white-and-pale-yellow palette. en, as a complement, I added blue Delphinium because I love the color contrast as well as how light and playful they look with the bigger, heavier sunflowers. BOTANICALS FROM BALL SB • Delphinium elatum 'Triton Series Dark Blue' (larkspur) • Helianthus annuus 'ProCut Series White Lite' (sunflower) • Brassica oleracea 'White Lady' (flowering kale) • Pycnosorus globosus [formerly Craspedia globosa] (billy button, drumstick) • Bupleurum rotundifolium 'Graffiti' (thoroughwax, hare's ear) OTHER BOTANICALS • Allium nigrum (black garlic, broad- leaved onion/garlic) • Genista spp./Cytisus spp. (flowering broom) • Astilbe japonica (false goat's beard, false spirea/Spiraea, florist's spirea/ Spiraea) • Jasminum officinale vine (poet's jasmine, poet's jessamine) CONTAINER FROM burton + BURTON • 8" Brown Glass Vase (9738874)

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