You’ll find Laura’s blogs draw on her knowledge of trend forecasting, floral hardgoods, and marketing to businesses and consumers. Focusing on products and trends that provide solutions, her goal is to equip Pioneer customers with information and education that makes purchasing and designing easier, and provide product knowledge that make online and catalog shopping easier.
Prior to collaborating with Pioneer, Laura held marketing, product development and merchandising roles for a major manufacturer in the floral industry. With experience in all the areas where floral goods are sold – wholesalers, flower shops, craft stores, grocery, bouquet manufacturers, ecommerce, garden centers – she is passionate about making our customer’s business easier, better and more profitable, championing the use of flowers year-round and helping the industry thrive.
Corporate accounts provide volume. With defined production parameters, efficient and consistent work can be highly profitable. How To Build Corporate Gift Basket Clientele It may seem intimidating, but consider that every business in your area has employees and clients. Even partnering with small ...
“I had my first pocket square request from a client two years ago – then last year had more than five times that many requests,” said Melissa Henderson of Tully Floral Design.If that increase in design requests grabbed your attention like it did ours, let’s talk more about this opportunity ...
One of the easiest ways to build a floral design is by using a wreath as your base. Why? There are so many reasons! It’s prefinished and preformed into the right shape! Nothing to hide! It may be simpler for your designers to work in a wreath base than other floral mechanics. When designers want ...
Thanks to the gorgeous photography shared from around the world on social media, floral installations at weddings, events, and for seasonal decorating are in high demand. From a floral chandelier, to storefront, to front porch, consumers now see how spaces dripping with flowers are a moment worth ...
Daylight is warmer and softer shortly after sunrise and just before sunset. Capture this warm halo by exploring the range of warm tones for an autumn glow in the Golden Hour collection.Bold colors are popular in weddings today and a monochromatic or analogous floral palette keeps a daring color ...
Using Permanent Botanicals at Luxury Picnics - Floral designers are some of the best collaborators because of their mission to bring more beauty to the world. Using flowers as our medium to express emotions – floral designers partner with artists, interior designers and event designers often. ...
Blush tones are here to stay, and tan and taupe marry into pinks in the Blushing Beauty collection. Blush weddings aren’t going out of style! You’ll often hear a wedding planner remind couples that anything super-trendy can end up looking dated. That’s why choosing a palette that embraces the ...
Just because it’s fall doesn’t mean muted palettes — you can use vivid colors too! Grouping red, orange and navy blue thoughtfully in floral is a risk that pays off in impact. But “You wouldn’t have to put it away as a seasonal composition,” reminds Tom Bowling, AIFD, PFCI. ...
When we created our Wine Country Collection, we knew it would help three types of designers: 1. The designer with events at a vineyard. The number of local wineries with event space is growing at a steady clip. Since 2009, the number of wineries in the country has grown by more than 50 ...
Consider the range of warm hues from daybreak to dusk in sandy terrain. Succulents find their natural home, as do grasses and terracotta pots. In the Desert Dusk collection, we are emphasizing visual interest through texture while providing a highly sophisticated interpretation of autumn. Right ...