Tom Bowling AIFD, PFCI shares an exciting idea for the spring season – while also demonstrating a powerful texture technique that you can use all year long. 

Spring is strongly associated with certain colors or certain types of silk flowers. But as Tom points out in this video, another crucial factor is the use of texture. This composition demonstration is going to use some dramatic variations on textures along with different shapes and those cheerful spring colors.

Tom starts with a lovely artificial grass, making his insertions directly in the middle. This selection from Pioneer Imports & Wholesale is not a bright green and it's not a dark green. Instead, it features a light grey-green look tipped out with just a hint of pink. This unique combination adds so much important dimension for an arrangement like this one. 

A fantastic complement to that grey-green grass is the grey-green silk eucalyptus – another Pioneer selection that is quickly becoming one of Tom's favorites. This grey-green color also marries well with the container. 

Tom clips away material to get more insertions from each piece. Wherever he cuts, he bends that excess stem over so that it doesn't poke and so that no material slides off. Tom enjoys how this silk eucalyptus can slide on the stem, giving more precision with each placement. 

You can follow along as Tom makes his silk eucalyptus insertions around the edges of the container, then working in toward the center. 

Next, Tom moves on to the peachy pink silk wisteria, allowing each insertion to cascade gently over the sides. He has already removed the foliage from these – but he adds them back in separately so that they still look like they're attached. He places two pieces of silk wisteria on one side and then two on the opposite side. 

Artificial fern is the next addition, a selection with faint coral undertones that tie beautifully with the silk wisteria. As he inserts the silk fern through the body of the composition, Tom mentions how he expects that dynamic coral coloration to be expressed a lot in interiors and even event work as well. 

Finally, Tom wraps up with elegant silk ranunculus in a beautiful cream shade, just a hair away from white but giving that extra dimension that Tom is looking for. He bends each stem into a hairpin to ensure the insertions stay securely in place. 

And there you have it. Beautiful textures combine – those popular omnipresent artificial grasses that you see all over the pages of shelter magazines, the heathery permanent botanical fern, the silk eucalyptus – it all works so wonderfully together. 

You can find all these wholesale permanent botanical elements (and so many more) readily available within the Pioneer Imports & Wholesale website or catalog. Let Pioneer help you get ready for spring and beyond!