Style Guide: Recipes for Arranging

Welcome to the Sullivan Owen Style Guide—a seasonal collection of floral recipes, styling tips, and inspiration for filling your vases with confidence and care.

Each form in the vase collection was designed by a florist, with real flowers in mind. These recipes are built to show you how to use them, not just display them. Whether you’re styling a market bunch, a handful from the garden, or a single perfect stem, this guide helps you create something beautiful.

We’re just getting started. Recipes will be added throughout the season—check back soon or join the list to be the first to know when new ones drop.

Barely Cinched × Garden Spring Mix

  • Season: Early Spring
    Flowers:
  • 7-10 Seasonal Tulips
  • Airy Foliage to taste
  • Snips from flowering branches
  • Daffodils, Hellbores, seasonal accents

Styling Tips:

  • Begin with a light structure using arching branches and airy foliage, whatever looks good
  • Add your focal blooms in small clusters: tulips and magnolia work beautifully together.
  • Use the vase’s soft folds to cradle stems naturally. The gently cinched middle keeps everything feeling held—but never tight.
  • Let some stems wander off the edge. This vase loves asymmetry and motion and while it's a "cylinder" it has 4 distinct sides so try all of them

🌿 Design Note: Every stem in this design was cut from my garden and arranged just steps away in the greenhouse I built myself. It's a space where I test forms, flowers, and the way they move together. Barely Cinched remains my most-used vase for garden-gathered arrangements like this.

📸 Arrangement shown: Barely Cinched with LaBelle Epoque and light lavender tulips, Genie Magnolia blossom, Tiger Rose Maple Cuttings, Prosecco daffodils and Sandy Shorts Hellebores.

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Envelope No.1 × Muscari

  • Season: Early Spring
    Flowers:
  • 20–30 stems of Muscari (aka grape hyacinth)
  • Optional: 3-5 small face flowers like the mums shown

Tips:

  • Use the vase’s undulating rim to let the muscari lean naturally—they don’t need to stand straight to feel joyful.
  • Tuck in a few larger blooms at varying heights to soften the structure.
  • These soft stemmed bulb flowers are thirsty, make sure to add fresh water often

📸 Arrangement shown: Envelope No.1 with blue muscari + a few Blue Ocean mums

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