Flowers

“Autumnal floral decor can look unlike any other," said Benjamin Newbold of Winston Flowers in Boston. "Fall is abundant with textured berries and grasses that are so specific to this season, and we have the opportunity to take advantage of so much from local farms. Dahlias specifically grown for Winston Flowers are always a favorite since they only become plentiful in late summer and the season ends with the first frost."

Natasha Lisita of San Francisco's Waterlily Pond Floral Design is combining air plants and succulents with local, seasonal flowers and exotic orchids this fall. "Succulents grow locally here in California," she said. "They can be replanted directly into soil after they've been cut and used in a floral arrangement, and they will very quickly root and continue to grow. Not only these plants are attractive from the environmental perspective, but they also have wonderful texture, shape, and palette."

Emily Thompson from Emily Thompson Flowers in New York likes working with sweet gum foliage, oak, acorns, and "fall branches in general." She also loves working with the season's "seed pods, cones, and nonfloral elements."

For a recent event, Erin Wochos Hornstein of Plum Sage Flowers in Denver created an earthy, elegant arrangement for a guest book and escort card display. "It was in a mercury glass pedestal vase, and mercury continues to be very popular this fall and winter as a container choice," Wochos Hornstein said. The arrangement held unusual materials, including dusty miller foliage, opaque dried moneytree branch, pheasant and ostrich feathers, curly willow, a bolsa wood bloom, a dried lotus pod, a copper cymbidium orchid, and a white larkspur bloom. "Feathers have been and will continue to be popular, but dried or wood blooms are becoming a beautiful new aesthetic for arrangements," she said. "I lined the edge of the vase with moss for an earthy feel."

Mike Hines of Chicago's Mike Hines Signature is "excited to be working with grasses and birch" this season. He also just received a shipment of Dutch hydrangea, and is working with moss, driftwood, and other types of wood.

The Daffodil Ball turned the historic Windsor Station in Montreal into an Alice in Wonderland-inspired gala on April 26. To honor the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s classic story, the 19th annual Canadian Cancer Society fund-raiser brought a surreal and upscale version of the tale to life. The design for the dining room included five different table styles, seven linen combinations, three types of chairs, and four colors of chair cushions.

At the Elle Women in Hollywood awards this month at the Four Seasons Los Angeles at Beverly Hills, long-time producer Caravents worked with Elle event director Katie Crown on the overall vision and event design. Blush tones in details from the linens to the roses created a feminime feel along with graphite mirror runners with clear cylinder vases.