All About Summer - Event Floral Decor: How To Beat The Heat

Summer temperatures reach triple digits. Floral decor wilts as fast as we do. Floral Artist Rebecca Motus to the rescue!

Rebecca has created gorgeous floral design that survives tropical conditions in many indoor and outdoor locations for us.
Her experience working in Hawai'i, Mexico and the Philippines comes in handy any time the thermometer needle goes up.
We may wilt but our floral stays fresh!

Rebecca Motus: "I adjust my design and work to the season, the location and the event. Another aspect that comes into play is longevity. Does the floral have to survive several days or is this just one night? It makes all the difference in my choices of flowers and materials I will use."

Location: Quintana Roo, Mexico.

"We worked together with a local vendor. As it turned out, many aspects of floral work get handled very differently in Mexico. For starters, the flower delivery trucks don't have cooling systems. Secondly, the decor style and assembly technique are different. However, our client expected the style of design they are accustomed to. We adjusted our designs to work with gorgeous, locally sourced tropical flowers and we became a great team with our Mexican friends. It all worked out very well and the client loved the floral designs."


Rebecca: "The use of tropical flowers is actually favored during the months of June, July and August. These flowers significantly withstand the heat. Tropical flowers I like to work with include the following : Orchids like cymbidium, mokaras and vanda. I also love ginger plants. They are mostly imported from Thailand."

"Holland usually doesn’t have as much to export during the summer months as bulb season is pretty much over. The tulips , hyacinths, daffodils and cymbidium season is done so you have to source different items from the Netherlands to use. Some examples are eremurus, callas, aliums and thistle

Local flowers like dahlias and tulips will be good for events but won’t last for your weekly flowers .

Last but not least: Best advice I can give to our homemakers is to religiously give the flowers a fresh cut and change or refill the water on a daily basis. This is the only way that the flowers would withstand the summer heat."


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