Today on Behind the Bloom, I’m visiting my friend Chef Jenna and we’re talking about her charity passions…Food Hugs® and Tip Back® (both are non-profit foundations). Food Hugs® is just that…providing food for front line workers and more. Tip Back® offers cash rewards (and even cars) to those in need in the food service industry! Chef Jenna is the queen of Giving Back…and you can learn more here today! The post Behind the Bloom with Chef Jenna appeared first on uBloom ..read more

Today we’re visiting a 100 Year Old Flower Farm…Peterkort Roses in Hillsboro Oregon. I had this very special opportunity to visit Sandra Laubenthal and her brother Norman Peterkort…3rd Generation Flower Farmers and what I call “Flower Lifers”. Those are very special people that have lived their entire lives in the flower industry and grew up surrounded by flowers. Peterkort Roses grow incredibly diverse and unique flowers…and sometimes, heirloom flower varieties seen nowhere else in the world. This was one of the most treasured days of my life…speaking with Norman, touring with Sandra and arra ..read more

Today on Fun with Flowers and J, I’m proud to introduce the NEW Applause® Roses from Florigene and Suntory Flowers!  This amazing Blue-Tone Rose is available from your local flower seller and is the perfect choice for Wedding and Special Event Work. These long lasting 40 cm roses are ideal for bouquets and arrangements. Uniform stem length and flower head size mean that you can plan your arrangements and event with ease and confidence! J creates a Sphere of Roses and accents it with Rose embellished Foliage Garlands!  Enjoy this NEW Blue Rose  introduction…Applause® Roses from F ..read more

Today on At Home with Flowers, I’m arranging Tulips in a field of blooming Tulips planted by my friend Benno at Holland America Flowers. Last year we visited Benno in Woodland Washington while the fields of Tulips were blooming…Benno offered me the opportunity to cut some of the Tulips and make an arrangement in the field. I love this arrangement, I love the setting and I love my friend Benno! It makes me so happy…Spring has Sprung again! Let’s enjoy it together! The post Tulip arranging in a Tulip Field! appeared first on uBloom ..read more

Today on At Home with Flowers, let’s go down by the river at a private garden in Grand Haven, Michigan…to create a simple yet elegant arrangement of Garden Flowers and Foliage! I’m using foliage from my garden to create a structure and then adding flowers from the garden! This arrangement features green and yellow-green foliage, white Sunflowers and Mophead Hydrangeas…Let me show you how easy this is! The post White Sunflowers Garden Arrangement! appeared first on uBloom ..read more

Today on At Home with Flowers, we’ll enjoy Flowers Al Fresco with my friend Chef Jenna on the Amoré Trattoria Patio. Chef Jenna is always excited to learn ways to make something special EVEN BETTER…so I share some fun tips with her including “Chop and Drop”…adding foliage from the garden, upgrading your bouquet with roses and even adding garden fresh Peonies! We do it step by step…and Jenna asks the BEST QUESTIONS that will help you (especially men) be BETTER flower arrangers! Today’s Project features flowers from The Elite Flower, Roses from Colour Republic and Proven Winners® Kodiak Orange D ..read more

Today on At Home with Flowers, I’m on location at Oregon Flowers in Aurora Oregon. We filmed with Tyler and Martin Meskers at Oregon Flowers for an upcoming episode in Season 6 of “Life in Bloom” called “Let’s Go Dutch”…It shares their Dutch Heritage and Expertise in Growing Flowers. I felt it was a perfect opportunity to showcase some of the amazingly beautiful flowers they grow in this week’s arrangement. I’ll be using two varieties of Lilies, French Tulips, Fancy Tulips and Hyacinth…and sharing my tips and tricks for creating a lovely Oregon Flowers Arrangement! Enjoy!  The post Lilies ..read more

Today on At Home with Flowers, I’m creating this adorable Flower Lion with a Hydrangea Mane! It’s a fun way to combine shapes, themes, colors and flowers together…in a creative way! Want to learn my tips, tricks and helpful hints for making this flower project? Tune in and find out what flowers I used, how I made the shape and where you can get the supplies I used to create this Fun Flower Lion with a Hydrangea Mane!  PS…it’s a nice home town homage to the Detroit Lions who are in the playoffs!) Enjoy!  The post Flower Lion with Hydrangea Mane! appeared first on uBloom ..read more

Today on At Home, I’m creating an arrangement using a Fragrant Variety of Beautiful Roses from Peterkort Roses in Oregon. The variety is called Helga Piaget and it’s so incredibly fragrant it can fill a room with Classic Rose Fragrance. I’m creating the arrangement in a white washed wooden box from our friends at JacobsonFloral.com. My friend Sandra introduced me to this amazing rose and shares the story behind it in Season 6 of “J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom”…Today, I’m making an arrangement that is made completely from these Gorgeous Roses! Enjoy! The post Helga Piaget Roses! appeared first on ..read more

Today on At Home, I’m creating an arrangement in a lovely wooden garden box from our friends at JacobsonFloral.com…for a visit with my Friends the Whitfords, that will be featured in our Flower for Kids Episode on Life in Bloom!  This arrangement features Purple Bell Flowers from Mayesh in San Francisco, Stock from Joseph & Sons, Helga Piaget and Mon Cherie roses from Peterkort Roses, Miss Piggy Roses from Eufloria Flowers, Ranunculus from Amsterdam and Proven Winners Diervilla from Proven Winners! Let me show you how it’s done…Enjoy! The post Garden Box of Flowers! appeared first on ..read more