Spring always brings a unique kind of joy. It comes as fresh colors return; winter’s gloomy hold dissipates, replaced by cheerful floral hues. After the quieter months of restrained floristry, the change in the air is always evident. Everything gravitates toward color and lightness, which is quite the welcome that everyone yearned for, after all.
Such is the kind of delight showcased through Marginpar's varieties in BLOOM's Refreshed & Positive collection. Here, soft pastels sit alongside stronger accents, while playful structural ideas give the flowers space to do what they do best. This design collection, essentially, radiates the essence of joie de vivre and the enjoyment of life.
A Refreshed & Positive Joy That You Can Feel
Refreshed & Positive does feel like when winter is gone, and the relaxed colors of spring emerge. The flowers (and their colors) produce that creative, feminine, playful air in the arrangements, without tipping into fussiness. You notice that the forms and materials are cerebrated.
The designs are a conscious mix of light-hearted influences of Kawaii, the Japanese aesthetic built around cuteness, charm, simplicity, and approachability, which keeps the collection from being overly serious, giving it a deliberate gracefulness. So, they radiate a vibrant, positive energy.
They are also defined by soft, rounded lines as seen in their vase shapes and reinforced by the curved movement of the materials used. Everything used complements the cheerful tones, with the natural materials, including weeping willow, Cornus branches, or bamboo, being the support structures.
The flowers themselves are anything but ordinary. Astilbe Vision in Pink, Delphinium Bella Andes Azure, Gloriosa Superba Simba Fifty Shades, Asters varieties, Scabiosas, varieties of the characterful Clematis Amazing® series, and several others, all mirror the easy, uplifting spirit of the theme; their vivid tones and gentle pastels juxtaposed for a delightful, spring feel.
The Designs in the Collective
The Fresh Design Language, weeping willow (Salix babylonica) rods are bent into U-shapes, secured over the vase opening, and used as a working grid that holds each flower in its own section, none competing with the other. Aster Teeny Tiny Pink clusters in one area, while Astilbe Vision in Pink fills another with its feathery softness.
Gloriosa Superba Simba Fifty Shades thrusts its reflexed orange and red petals outward with their characteristic energy, while Hypericum Tomato Flair sits among them; its warm berry tones ground the composition. A woven ring of Salix babylonica secured across the vase mouth holds everything in place.
Stable Hold is more about what holds the flowers up. A ring formed from Salix babylonica is attached to willow rods bent into U-shapes and secured across the vase opening, creating an organic grid that gives the flowers a structure to rest within.
It works particularly well for varieties like Astilbe Vision in Pink and for the longer stems of Delphinium Bella Andes Azure and Gloriosa Superba Simba Fifty Shades, which are ideally held at a stable angle. The U-shaped structure is part of the design, adding a woven, handmade texture.
In Dynamism in Blossom, bamboo and Salix babylonica are worked together into a flowing, curved structure that tilts and arcs, and the flowers placed within it respond to that same energy. Delphinium Bella Andes Azure guides the eye upward with its tall lavender-blue spires, as Gloriosa Superba Simba Fifty Shades pushes its flame-like petals outward from the curves.
Scabiosa Bon Bon Scoop French Vanilla holds its small, rounded cream heads between the other flowers, topped by Clematis Amazing Sofia, as Chasmanthium Latifolium Mantis trails at the edges, with its flat seed heads adding a looseness that keeps the arrangement relaxed. The design has a sort of organized energy.
In Light Swing, Cornus sericea Flaviramea branches are the starting point, curved into gentle arcs forming a canopy of sorts atop the vase. Within those arcs, different flowers are naturally arranged. Astilbe Vision in Pink fills space with its soft, cloud-like texture, adding density. Gloriosa Superba Simba Fifty Shades brings its swept-back orange and red petals into the design, and Clematis Amazing Tokyo opens its flat, creamy-pink face between them, providing ‘visual breathing room’.
Scabiosa Dark Cherry Scoop®, for its part, adds its deep-cherry rounds that deepen the palette just enough, while Delphinium Bella Andes Azure and Chasmanthium Latifolium Mantis tower above the other flowers. The curved Cornus gives the arrangement a sense of gentle movement, as if it is in mid-swing. This arrangement projects freshness and positive energy.
For the Flowing Freely design, rings of Salix babylonica are combined with Cornus sericea Flaviramea branches laid diagonally, building a framework, then the flowers are placed within it, matching the mood. Aster Flash brings small, cheerful bursts of color, while Clematis Amazing® Kyiv and Tokyo add their element across the structure.
The design also incorporates Scabiosa Bon Bon Scoop® French Vanilla’s cream-toned rounds that sit lightly within the diagonal layers. Talinum Paniculatum Long John’s fine stems and tiny flowers spill out through the edges, catching light and giving the arrangement life. The diagonal Cornus layering detail keeps this design from feeling loose.
Focus on Movement has Salix babylonica branches twisted into dome-shaped swirls above the vase, building a golden, coiled crown that attracts the eye. Into and between those swirls, a wide range of Marginpar varieties are placed. Delphinium Bella Andes Azure and Guardian Lavender reach upward, as Gloriosa Superba Simba Fifty Shades pushes its flame-colored petals through the willow coils.
Clematis Amazing® Tokyo and Kansas open their faces in soft pink and purple, with the Scabiosa Dark Cherry Scoop® adding understated punctuations, while Astilbe Vision Inferno gives its warm, feathery texture in salmon-coral tones. Aster Flash and Teeny Tiny Pink fill the smaller gaps with their cheerful, fine-petaled heads. The willow crown gives this generously-filled arrangement its organizing principle.
The Color Cycle design features Clematis vitalba tendrils coiled into rings that sit as the base structure. From within those loops, Delphinium Bella Andes Azure’s cool blue spires rise. Gloriosa Superba Simba Fifty Shades adds its unique warmth, with its swept-back orange and red petals attracting and holding attention.
Scabiosa Dark Cherry Scoop® fills in with small, rounded deep-cherry heads that add density to the lower sections, while Clematis Amazing® Tokyo and Havana are present too, softening the arrangement's edges. Placed together in a wide vessel, the composition radiates outward from its circular center.
The Linear Lightness design concept features Phyllostachys viridiglaucescens stems arranged into a clean vertical grid, with flowers placed within that grid chosen specifically for how they work. Gloriosa Superba Simba Fifty Shades provides the warmest color notes, its reflexed petals standing out against the straight bamboo lines. Clematis Amazing® Sofia and Kyiv’s soft faces between the stems radiate their cream and purple hues.
Aster Teeny Tiny Pink adds fine-petaled clusters that subtly fill the gaps, as Talinum Paniculatum Long John trails its gentle stems and tiny flowers through the arrangement, catching the light at the edges. Symphoricarpos albus, on the other hand, adds its small white berries that look like relaxed exclamation points, creating an overall airy effect that makes it a generally joyful arrangement.
Color Circle in Focus is, perhaps, the collection's most liberal design. Flexible Cornus sericea Flaviramea branches form a wraparound framework into which Delphinium Guardian Lavender brings easy height. Astilbe Vision in Pink adds feathery texture in warm pink. Gloriosa Superba Simba Fifty Shades brings its signature flame-colored petals, while the Clematis Amazing® varieties open quietly between the fuller elements.
Scabiosa Dark Cherry Scoop®, on the other hand, deepens the palette with small cherry-red rounds, and Craspedia Paintball Pop adds its golden spheres precisely where the eye needs them. The design also features Hypericum Tomato Flair, its warm berry tones holding the whole color narrative together, while Chasmanthium Latifolium Mantis trails the margins, softening the edges. This arrangement radiates a celebratory mood in which the energy is real.
Marginpar’s Flowers as the Expressions of Joy
These designs work particularly well because Marginpar’s flowers have strong character. Many of them have airy, branching floral stems, numerous flower heads, and a sense of dynamism inherent in their natural growth habit. These make them perfect for expressing the joie de vivre feel.
Plus, the grower’s almost 100 different cut flower varieties are grown year-round at locations in altitudes within Africa’s equatorial climate. Notably, their production is now fully FSI-compliant and sustainably managed, with people (guided by the Kaizen and Hamuka principle of continuous improvement) remaining significant to their culture.
