So excited…today we have a unique opportunity to follow Nick Priestly (Mood Flowers) for a day as he executes a large installation on the east coast of Scotland!
From Nick:
On Sunday I travelled to the east coast of Scotland to work on a mammoth design for a client who was hosting their European customers over the course of five days at the beautiful Gosford House. My brief was to create a contemporary design in eye catching purple that would look perfect for five days.
Our vanda orchids from the incredible Dutch grower Anco pure Vanda arrived at my studio via our wholesaler Fleurametz.
I arrived at Gosford House to meet my giant urn for the first time. Our client had emailed the dimensions to me. Diameter of 180cm.
I cleared out the original planting and placed 4 jumbo wet oasis blocks and one 40cm ball on top secured with chicken wire.
I started to green up using Aralia leaves on the edge and soft ruskus and cocculus.
Work on the design continued. The orchids were prepared by cutting the stem in half and inserting into 50cm orchid tubes.
Almost there!
The design was completed after two and a half hours. A total of 1,000 vanda orchid heads were used.
Finished design
Close up
I also created two smaller versions in the grand hallway – not a bad looking workplace for the day!
Read more about Nick Priestly here.
Thank you , Nick!