Mornings with Mayesh

David Dahlson was back to share with us some exciting product news! He introduced us to a ground-breaking NEW product called Exochorda! David also showed us Café Latte, which won a Red Ribbon at the SAF Outstanding Varieties Competition for our exclusive Mayesh rose variety along with gorgeous tree peonies, some other new rose varieties - Grandiose, Zephyr, Level Up, Dark Expression, Sunset Expression, Bumblebee, Born Free, Wild Esperance, Fair Lady, Be Sweet, Mia, Unforgiven, and Piacere - and a brand new double purple/hot pink Aster from one of our growers.

Which product are you most excited about?

NOTE: the video replay may be a better option since most of the episode featured flowers.

Show notes & video replay link: https://blog.mayesh.com/mwm-flower-showcase-new-varieties-roses-peonies-exochorda-asters

Where do YOU bloom? This week, Debra Prizing brought a few of her floral friends to discuss her latest book, "Where We Bloom". We are going to dive into creating unique spaces where florists create and design. Our other special guests - Srini Perera, Maura Whalen, and Kit Wertz & Casey Schwartz - will be sharing more about their small, medium, and large spaces where they bloom & work.

**certain parts will be best viewed by watching the video replay**

Show notes & video replay: https://blog.mayesh.com/mwm-floral-design-spaces

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Our newest Mayesh Design Star, Tyson Lee of Mister Lee Designs, is Yvonne's very special guest! They sat down to chat about his first tutorial video featuring a floral wig, the story behind that wig design, sustainability, and, of course, answered audience questions.

Show notes & video link:
https://blog.mayesh.com/mwm-tyson-lee-on-floral-wigs-sustainability

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Listen to our latest Mornings with Mayesh featuring our very own flower expert, David Dahlson. We chatted about the current flower situation, flower shortages, pricing, flower substitutions, working with your rep, processing flowers, making sustainable changes, and more. It was truly a great episode packed with tons of important information!

Show notes & video link: https://blog.mayesh.com/mwm-wholesale-flowers-shortages-processing

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Amanda Bowman of Amanda Bee's Floral Designs and our July & August Mayesh Design Star was our guest this week. She is once again bringing the retail perspective into our series and conversation this year. We are going to chat about her retail program, containers, flower subscriptions, software & websites for retailers, shop events & more!

Show notes & video link: https://blog.mayesh.com/mwm-retail-floristry-amanda-bowman

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Our newest Mayesh Design Star, Amanda Bowman of Amanda Bee's Floral Design, joined Yvonne for our latest episode. She is bringing the retail perspective into our series this year and we are excited to dive more into the topic. Learn more about her retail posey program, tips for getting started in retail, flower deliveries, florist websites & so much more!

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What is floral marketing? Hafsa Lewis of Hafsa & Co joined me live yesterday to answer that very question. We also chatted about working with other companies, brand activations, flay lays, current projects, future plans and so much more!

Show notes & video replay:

https://blog.mayesh.com/mwm-floral-marketing-with-hafsa-lewis

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Our newest Mayesh Design Star, Hafsa Lewis of Hafsa & Co joined Yvonne for our latest Mornings with Mayesh. They dove into Hafsa's amazing dried floral installation at a restaurant, learned about how she works with businesses & brands as a florist, and answered your questions live!

Show notes & video replay:
https://blog.mayesh.com/mwm-hafsa-lewis-floral-marketing

Lauren Palmer of The Wild Mother joined us to chat about their "Art is Medicine" project #SendFlowersToGreenwood. Learn more about how they are working with The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission to send flowers to Greenwood both virtually with participants creating art to share on social media and physically by providing large-scale floral installations and bouquets for descendants of massacre victims during commemorative ceremonies this month. Their work is truly inspiring!

Show notes & video replay:
https://blog.mayesh.com/mwm-the-wild-mother-sendflowerstogreenwood

Darroch and Michael Putnam of Putnam & Putnam were Yvonne's very special guests on yesterday's Mornings with Mayesh!! They have collaborated on projects ranging from events with Dior to installations for Beyoncé and have been featured in countless magazines. The Putnams visited the show to share about their second book, Flower Color Theory - a follow-up to Flower Color Guide that features 175 different arrangements! Afterward, we dove into some of your flower questions that included: do they forage, which floral designers inspire them, when did they feel like they "made it", and so much more!

Show notes & video replay:
https://blog.mayesh.com/mwm-putnam-putnam-on-flower-color-theory