Foraged and found thistles + gumnut, with fresh + fragrant yellow buddelia.
Corporate event - Entrepreneur of the Year Awards evening - Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Location
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Date
August 2019
PROJect
Corporate awards evening - event flowers and foliage
Lokale Blumen was commissioned for an awards evening in Sydney at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Typically, the entrepreneurs in the running for an award receive yellow rose buttonholes on the night, a long-standing tradition all over the world.
However, as yellow roses typically don’t grow naturally during winter in Sydney, and would carry nasty air miles…. we suggested to the client locally grown Inca Gold Yellow Leucadendrons. They swiftly agreed! The final buttonhole design is pictured here.
Our design reveals the beauty of the mostly unseen part of this incredible flower. Hailing from the Proteaceae family, the Inca Gold Yellow Leucadendrons are at their peak at the end of winter, after the solstice has passed. Read more on that here at the Swallows Farm blog…
In addition to the buttonhole design, we combined dry sculptural elements and foliage with fresh yellow buddelia for the remainder of the event florals.
All florals and foliage here were foraged and farmed in and around Sydney, NSW.
LOKALE BLUMEN (~ LOCAL FLOWERS & WEEDS):
‘Yellow Inca’ Leucadendron, sorghum, buddelia, thistles and foraged foliage along the pedestrian strips of Sydney.
Foraged and found thistles + gumnut, with fresh + fragrant yellow buddelia.
Ali installing at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney.
Foraged and found thistles + gumnut, with fresh + fragrant yellow buddelia.
Inca Gold Leucadendrons were used for the award winner’s buttonholes on the night, in place of the traditional ‘yellow rose’.
High table arrangement, featuring foraged foliage and buddelia.
Close-up of the Inca Gold Leucadendron buttonhole. Here we replaced the yellow rose for a local and seasonal flower.