Floral

Ariel Dearie of Ariel Dearie Flowers in New York said she's working with "autumn colors and lots of fall foliage" this season. She's also looking forward to using pomegranates and persimmons.

Susan Kelly of Three Sisters Custom Flowers & Events in San Francisco is working mini fruits into her fall arrangements. For a recent event, she used seckel pears, tiny purple grapes, and mini mandarins in the centerpieces. "I love using local fruits and vegetables in arrangements, and we have a bounty here in Northern California always available at our fabulous San Francisco Flower Market," she said. "Fall brings mini apples, pomegranates, persimmons, figs, and olives. Many are still on the branch with their foliage and look very dramatic."

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.