Oasis Idea Weekly

May 2018 Start Now: 15 Fabulous Garden and Tropical Flower Arrangements  The hesitation is over.  Floral designers used to hesitate to mix the casual and rounded shapes of garden flowers, known as temperates for the climate where they grow, with the dramatic and angular forms of tropicals.  Today? Temps and trops together are in. Floral trendsetters are embracing this textural new mix in garden design. And creating gorgeous designs at moderate prices at the same time.  As you look through the 15 arrangements in this week's IDEA Weekly blog, you might wonder why anyone ever paused. Because temps and trops go together like chocolate and peanut butter, bed and breakfast, movies and popcorn, beach and summer and any other magical combination that comes to your mind.  Discover how opposition, proportion and scale matter in mixed designs, the benefits of mixing flowers with different costs and how to handle different stem types in one arrangement—and see the 15 temps and trops mixed arrangements from four different designers. Just click the image above or green button below. You can also scroll down for this week's floral design video and how to submit your designs with the chance to earn $200 in floral products and be featured in our advertising.  Have a week filled with flowers! Jacque SirLouis Smithers-Oasis Read IDEA Weekly Missed these IDEAs? Here's five recent blogs How and Why to Design with Succulents 6 Floral Techniques for Decorating Amazing Wedding Arbors How to Create and Display Circular Wedding Arches Turn Plain Mother’s Day Container Designs to Pretty Wake-up Mother’s Day with Personalized Floral Designs IDEA Weekly Blog home This Week's Floral Video IDEA How to choose the right floral foam for flower types Why are there different types of floral foam? How can you choose and use the right type? Get the answers in this video with Smithers-Oasis Floral Design Director Sharon McGukin AIFD, AAF, PFCI.  View this week's video Floral videos home Want to See your Wedding, Get Well or Sympathy Design in Print—and possibly get $200 in products? Ever looked through a floral magazine and thought: "I would love to see one of my designs featured!" Well, here’s your chance. Three chances, to be exact, starting with get well designs due by midnight Friday. Enter in the 2018 Smithers-Oasis INSPIRE Floral Design Showcase a photo of your most inspiring wedding, sympathy or get well arrangement made using any one of our products. You'll get a free foam or decorative product just for entering—if you are among the first 25 entries. If your design is selected as the most inspirational in that category, it will be featured in an ad published in Florists’ Review, Canadian Florist, AIFD Focal Points digital magazine and Floral Management Magazine. We'll also talk about your design and you on our website and social media pages. And you'll receive $200 in floral products. Ready to enter? Take your best photo without background products or special filters.  Write a paragraph about it. Then click the green button below or image above to find the entry form for your design category or categories. Note this is for US and Canadian residents only—and don't miss these deadlines: Get well designs: May 11. Sympathy designs: May 18. Wedding designs: May 25. INSPIRE Page and Entry Forms Every OASIS Floral Products product in detail—and more! Oasisfloralproducts.com has the complete information you need on every available OASIS Floral Products product including sizes and colors. You'll all find floral recipes, how-to videos, design ideas and inspiration. If you have questions, ideas or concerns and for order support, contact customer service at 1-800-321-8286 or support@oasisfloral.us. Visit oasisfloralproducts.com See what's happening on our social sites!  ‌  ‌  ‌  ‌  ‌

Christina Burton-Fox AIFD floral artist & instructor