Landscape with some modern elelements

Some people don't know I design residential landscapes for people in my local area. I really enjoy working with homeowners & hopefully my passion for plants rubs off on some of them! Recently I've scaled back a lot on my landscape work with wedding business expanding, as well as my family. (Currently I am watching my belly expand!)

This week I finished up a landscape plan that was so much fun to create for a couple in Lynden. They wanted touches of some modern elements in their landscape plan. We did this through plant selections, hydrapressed slab pavers & gravels. They will be installing the landscape themselves, so I look forward to driving by their home & seeing things progress! Here is their landscape plan.

Hope of Spring

The wedding that we set up today was such a cheerful wedding. The bride chose daffodils, an early spring flower as one of her main flowers. I'm sure all of their guests from the local area will have spring fever for the next week as we have still not seen spring....and it's March! Enjoy these pictures & if you're planning a wedding of your own, maybe you'll get some ideas.

Congratulations Kevin & Kayla! I really enjoyed designing your flowers & working with you.

Kissing Ball

Arrangements for the windows at the church. The bride's parents built them and grew the grass in them for the Bride & Groom. Tiny detail...notice the initials branded into the side of the container!

Reception at Lynden Fairgrounds Rotary Building

I love how the mantle turned out. Most people want candles and greenery on the mantle, so it was fun to do something a little bit different.

Closeup of the pomanders on the mantle.

They had lots of guests, so we broke up the mass of tables by doing a couple different centerpieces.

Simple, but very cute!

Dave & Shannon

My cousin Dave & his beautiful wife Shannon got married this weekend. They lucked out and had great weather for their wedding & pictures. Shannon chose a classic color theme...white, black & red. You can never go wrong with these great colors.

Bride's Bouquet

Bridesmaids wore black dresses and carried a bouquet of white roses.
All white flowers on some of my black metal rental items. A white runner blanketed with real red rose petals completed the look for the ceremony. Candles in the windows also added to the romantic & elegant theme.
A close up of the unity candles.

Tracy's Elegant Wedding

Photo by Clinton James Photography

This Picture shows my large cylinder vases which are available as a rental item.

The following pictures of Tracy's wedding were emailed to me from her sister Shara (see next post). Tracy chose elegant white & ivory flowers for her wedding with lots of crystal accents. Both Tracy & Shara are lucky to have a florist in their family! Their Aunt Sharron was also involved in Tracy's wedding. Sharron did all of Tracy's personal flowers along with taking care of the reception floral designs.

Tracy's Aunt Sharron did the floral design in this table candelabra. Tracy rented the table candelabras & the crystals hanging from them, from me. To see other items available to rent from The Backyard Gardener, click here.

To see some professional pictures from this wedding, view the below video of pictures taken by Clinton James Photography.

Billy & Shara's Fall Theme Wedding

After seeing a recent post on my blog, a loyal blog fan sent me some pictures of both her wedding & her sister's wedding. Both Shara & Tracy's weddings were so fun to design the flowers for! Definitely both weddings last year ranked in my top favorites. They both have great taste & fun personalities. I tried my best to reflect this in their floral designs. Shara, from one photo nut to another...Thank you for sharing these gorgeous pictures!

Bridal bouquet & bridesmaids' bouquets
I lost track of counting the candles after 150! Very Romantic setting.

I have always loved the idea of fresh flowers on toasting flutes or glasses. Shara's was the first for me. Isn't this a great photo!

Fall theme carried out to the very end

I included this picture to show off what can be done in my tall square vases. The family rented the vases from me, then the bride's Aunt Sharron took care of the floral designs for the reception. Sharron's centerpieces turned out amazing.

ALL PICTURES SHOWN TAKEN BY AMY PARSON'S PHOTOGRAPHY

View this video to see more pictures from Shara & Billy's Wedding taken by Amy Parsons Photography. It's worth taking time to view!

Alissa's Bouquet

Alissa had a winter wedding of mostly white flowers, accents of blues & of course winter greenery. Here is a couple pictures of her bouquet. To see more wedding pictures, go to the blog of Amy Parson's Photograpy .

Sean & Erin's Wedding

I always enjoy receiving pictures! When I opened my email this morning I was so excited, I knew I needed to post them right away. These beautiful pictures were taken by James Taylor Photography. Thank you Erin for sharing your pictures!

To see some more of this couples wedding pictures from James Taylor, view the video below.