Professional Floral Artists & Features 2016

Canada Blooms celebrated our 20th anniversary with the Theme “It’s A Party”. Each professional floral artist went the extra mile by creating a floral art piece that represented an important moment in a person’s life.

Life is a Celebration

The floral displays at Canada Blooms were truly inspirational. Canada’s best floral artists and designers, as always, dazzled visitors and this year was no exception.

View the 2015 professional floral artists by clicking here.
View the 2014 professional floral artists by clicking here.

Alma Florist/4165 FlowerBy Brad Higginson/Rada Ristich

A part of floral history since 1952. A full service fl ower shop and studio servicing Toronto and the GTA with their creative and award winning designers.

Alma Florist/4165 Flowers

Canadian Institute of Floral DesignBy Floral Students

Canadian Institute of Floral Design has trained over 3,500 students professionally. They are respected and noted in both the teaching and business world. Find out more about Canadian Institute of Floral Design’s Professional Floral Design Program at: proflorists.net

Fresh Floral CreationsBy Bruno Duarte

My approach to floral design is both sculptural and emotional, blending organic materials and found objects together to create works of art. My floral studio is often mistaken for an art gallery, where weekly window displays are created to showcase floral artistry.

Fresh Floral Creations

Jennifer Harvey DesignsBy Jennifer Harvey

Jennifer Harvey CAFA CFD is an award winning, internationally recognized and certified floral and event designer who has been in the industry across North American and the UK for 16 years, managing shops, free lancing, designing for prominent political figures, celebrities and royalty, event planning and designing, and working with some of the most prestigious names in the industry such as Preston Bailey.

Jennifer Harvey CFD CAFA
Gatto Flowers
www.gattoflowers.ca/905.670.0636

Opening Night FlowersBy Nicholas Smith

Nicholas’ arrangements and designs have been featured in Style Me Pretty, Wedluxe projects and bridal show events. Featured designer in Canadian Florist Magazine, Canada Blooms and Garden & Floral Expo and was lead florist for the mass World Pride wedding on behalf of Toronto Botanical Gardens.

Opening Night Flowers

Bloemen DecorBy Albert Graves

If you have visited Canada Blooms in the past, you will never forget Albert Graves’ eye-catching lush creations and the colourful carts where he mixes the most imaginative objects and home grown plants and flowers.

Did you see Grout at Canada Blooms? The Giant Gnome was created a by Albert Graves and enjoyed by all at this year’s festival.

Bloemen Décor

Ohara School of IkebanaBy Toronto Chapter

Since the inception of the Ohara School of Ikebana, Toronto chapter in May 1974, members and volunteers have worked tirelessly to promote and expand interests in the art of Ikebana through our Ohara curriculum in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

Ohara School of Ikebana, Toronto Chapter

Bayview FlowersBy Bayview Flowers

Bayview Flowers operates under 340,000 square feet of greenhouses. We grow potted plants and cut flowers on a weekly basis as well as certain specialty holiday plants. Our facility in Jordan Station provides 50,000 square feet of distribution and cut floral processing. It is also our Head Office, providing space for administration, sales and marketing. This location places us within an 8 hour drive of some of the most populous regions in Canada and the USA. We sell a wide range of potted plants and cut flowers within these regions, to all kinds of customers; from the mass marketer to the corner florist. Future plans for expansion to meet customer demand will be met with another 100 acres of available land.

Bayview Flowers

pickOntarioBy pickOntario Growers

pickOntario hosted the pickOntario Flower Market at Canada Blooms.
pickOntario is a government funded marketing initiative to help raise awareness, interest and demand for Ontario-grown cut floweras and potted plants on behalf of over 220 floriculture growers of Ontario.

Participants included: Aldershot Greenhouses, Cosmic Plants, Foliera, Harsters Greenhouses, Northend Gardens, P. Ravensbergen & Sons, Pioneer Flower Farms, Van Geest Brothers, VanZanten Greenhouses.

pickOntario

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