San Anselmo’s “green” florist Local Flora, www.marinflora.com, will provide beautiful California grown arrangements in a new small flower section at local Good Earth Natural Foods in Farifax, CA beginning Feb 10, 2010.

Why not take home a lovely artisanal arrangement to accompany your wonderful organic dinner items!

Our First Lady, Michelle Obama has stamped her claim on being fashionable. Lucky for us all, her sense of style extends to flowers as well!

It has been noted that First Lady Obama shows the same eclecticism that we have seen displayed in her choice of wardrobe – simple and sophisticated.

Member Chestnuts in the Tuileries, www.chestnutsnyc.com demonstrates this aesthetic brilliantly with a gorgeous pave arrangement of luscious varigated Peach Parrot Tulips featured in the June issue of In Style online magazine.

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Our member Local Flora is going to the White House to help decorate for Christmas – we are so excited!  Take a lot of photos.  Maybe Samantha can recruit the White House as a sending member of bbrooks!

www.marinflora.com

New member Central Park Flowers www.centralparkflowers.com owner Dorian Butovich was prominently featured online in the Times-Tribune recently.

With 16 years experience in the business, this experienced designer has been providing luscious floral creations for such esteemed clientele as Donatella Versace, Madonna, Meg Ryan, George Soros, and the Clintons.  Also, five-star restaurants such as Le’Bernadin, Lutece and Restaurant Daniel and for venues such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim for more than half of his life!

A recent transplant to Olyphant, PA, Butovich had previously called NYC home. Butovich and his wife Eloise chose Northeast PA after much research. They saw an incredible need for true flower design and were looking for a hometown feel to raise their family.

In Butovich’s own humble words, they are “an everyday flower shop catering to all needs” including Bar Mitzvahs, weddings, dinner parties and Sweet 16s. Bring it on Northeast PA! The Butovich’s are ready!

The current driving force behind our member florist Renny & Reed in New York City is Reed McIlvaine, currently featured on the cover of the spring 2009 issue of Flower Magazine.

Being the nephew and godson of Renny Reynolds, Reed has flowers in his blood, so to speak, but didn’t have career plans of making them his livelihood. Reed worked as a creative director in the dot-com industry for several years post-college, and then decided to spend some time with his Uncle Renny in 2000. The more time he put in, the more Reed began to prove his newfound talent and love of flowers as much to himself as to his family members.

Renny was the premiere event and floral designer and launched his career in  the New York party scene during  the ‘70’s , Renny – a man who’s reputation garners him one-name status – had already built a reputation for himself and his business, planning parties for Manhattan’s glamorous set as well as Studio 54 (for those of us old enough to remember that amazing venue!) and all over the world.

Nine years later, Renny & Reed still caters to the most sophisticated of clientele, including many well known five star hotels, such as The Four Seasons and The St. Regis.

The rest, they say, is history! www.rennyandreed.com