The Florist's Table

Our Mayesh Design Star, Tyson Lee of Mister Lee Designs, was Yvonne's guest on yesterday's live show! They chatted about his second flower design tutorial video featuring an avant-garde floral wig, landing high-profile clients, finding inspiration for his floral designs, the creative process, and more. Show notes & video replay link: https://blog.mayesh.com/mwm-inspiration-the-creative-process  

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 Expres...

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 pa...

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   #morningswithmayesh #mayeshdesignsta...

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-w...

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...

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! Show notes & video replay: If you enjoy ou...

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   If you enjoy our podcast, we would love for you to leave us a review!!

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...

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 diff...

This episode featuring Gilberto Espinoza, of Dogwood & Fir, really covers a wide range of topics - everything from design principles to taxidermy and beyond! We chat about pin frogs, flower food, design details, and using triangles when designing using his Dutch still-life arrangement video as a reference. Also, we discussed Gilberto's creative way he sells designs by color, not specific flowers,...

The Hotel Florist, Franceska McCaughan, joined Yvonne for our latest segment of Mornings with Mayesh to discuss the hotel floral industry. In this episode, learn about what a hotel florist is, how this segment of our industry has been affected by Covid, and strategies on getting your foot in the hotels' doors. This may be a whole new segment that you've never considered OR you may have been too in...

The founder of Botanical Brouhaha , Amy McGee, joined Yvonne for the latest episode of Mornings with Mayesh! Amy shares about the evolution of Botanical Brouhaha, content creation, blogging, podcasting, InBloom Trust Co & more.  Show notes & video replay: https://blog.mayesh.com/mwm-amy-mcgee-of-botanical-brouhaha  

Our second 2021 Mayesh Design Star, Gilberto Espinoza of Dogwood & Fir, joined Yvonne for our latest Mornings with Mayesh. In the first half of the show, they talked about his debut design video that launched last week, " Croquet Party Tablescape " and then they discussed starting a business during a pandemic, the importance of floral education in Gilberto's life, along with answering any other qu...

Our first 2021 Mayesh Design Star, Drew Rios of Rogue&Fox Floral Co, came back onto the show. She answered all of the questions that came in about this month's design video, Floral Art Wall , that touched on planning, products, design longevity, and pricing. In addition, Drew gave an update on how her Valentine's Day collaboration went, planning during the pandemic, battling creative block & so mu...

Our first 2021 Mayesh Design Star , Drew Rios of Rogue&Fox Floral Co was my special guest for our first Mornings with Mayesh of the new year. Drew answered all of the questions that came in about her Avant-Garde Ceremony floral installation video. Afterward, we chatted about creative ideas to incorporate into your business - collaborating with other artists, selling "trending now" items, upcoming...

Lauren & Rachel of Sweet Root Village joined Yvonne on Mornings with Mayesh this week. These two talented ladies shared how they stay organized, tips for hiring the right team, their thoughts on how to scale your biz without losing your brand identity, along with answering live viewer questions! Click over to the show notes (link below) for 2 bonus questions that were not answered during the show!...

Alison Ellis of Real Flower Business , came on to chat about her brand new book, " Falling Into Flowers - A Step-by-Step Guide to Today's Modern Wedding Business". She wrote this book to provide a great overview of how to start a wedding business that covers how to find your niche, pricing, production scheduling, and everything in between. You know Alison is always sharing so much knowledge and we...

Nicole Clarey of Nicole Clarey Photography and Logan Martin of Good Notion joined Yvonne to chat about visual storytelling using photography and videography! With the digitization of business, photos and videos have become even more important. Learn how to improve shooting your own, when you should hire a pro & more! Video replay & show notes: https://blog.mayesh.com/mwm-visual-storytelling-using-...

Charity Reel joined Yvonne to chat about our website. They reviewed all of the available Mayesh Market online flower shopping tools along with the Flower Library, the Product Planner, Educational Downloads & more. Be sure to watch for a special coupon code good on one Mayesh Direct BoxLot order until November 30, 2020!! Video replay & show notes:  https://blog.mayesh.com/mwm-mayesh-website-walk-th...

Amy Balsters of Amy Nicole Floral joined me for our most recent Mornings with Mayesh to really dig into is BOUQUETS!! She gives bouquet tips for efficiency, chats about her favorite bouquet ingredients, what to avoid when design bouquets and even shares her biggest bouquet fail along with answering your bouquet questions.  Show notes w/ links & video replay: https://blog.mayesh.com/mwm-bouquet-des...

What do watermelons have to do floral design? Find out during this Mornings with Mayesh episode as we take a deeper dive into sustainable practices with Marie-Laure Coste Dujols of Le Jardin Français. Podcast & show notes: https://blog.mayesh.com/mwm-sustainable-floral-design  

Cristina Barragan of Fleursociety joined Yvonne to chat about business efficiency on Mornings with Mayesh!! A few topics that were discussed: •How to streamline, organize, systemize, automate your business + process? •Why is education important? •How can you stay relevant? Link to grab your Summit ticket: https://fleursociety.teachable.com/courses/fleursociety-online-summit-fall-2020-free?affcode=...

Past Mayesh Design Star and author, Shawn Michael Foley joined Yvonne to discuss his new book, "I Just Want to Design", the designer's survival guide to falling in love with your business. They chat about burn out, 3 things that florist do that prevent success, when is it too late to turn things around, 3 main takeaways from the book, and so much more. Video replay and show notes: https://blog.may...