The summer season has a particularly munificent quality. The air gets warmer, colors become brighter, flowers become much livelier and more vibrant, and, ideally, the finest floral design work follows an easy trend that does not rigidly control what the season brings. Botanical Structures, a design collection in which master florist Krisztián Kövér works with Marginpar's specialty summer assortment, easily achieves this.
Through the flowers, these designs by Kövér explore and fully capture the spirit of summer, featuring meadow grasses that breezily sway, spaces left on purpose in the designs, and, generally, for obvious reasons, the flowers seem to merit being right there in the designs.
Summer Season and Good Floral Design
Kövér is known for creating compositions that tell stories, and this series is hardly any different. Summer doesn’t need overworking oneself or overcomplicating things. When you crowd the flowers or force the structure of the designs, you lose what made the flowers worth using in the first place: specifically, their ease, sense of airiness, and colors radiating summertime warmth. Kövér's designs achieve all these by conforming to the season's aesthetics.
With Marginpar's specialty summer varieties doing what they are known to do best, and supporting elements used as calculatedly as the flowers themselves, what one finds across them is a fresh storytelling that achieves its most defined expression. The designs feature warm yellows, deep burgundies, and dusty pinks, alongside dried grains and grasses, and hence a meadow feeling that is often harder to achieve than it looks. Here’s a look at the designs.
1. A Bowl Full of Summer
In this contemporary bouquet, Kövér starts with a shallow felt bowl, filling the base with dried bell cup seed pods that add texture and visual richness. He glues the flowers so their heads rest nearly flat, all on the same level. In the design, Gloriosa Simba Fifty Shades is the flower that first catches your attention, its petals reflexed back, in a vivid color transition that goes from yellow at the base to deep orange at the tips.
Then in come Clematis Amazing® London and Clematis Amazing® Kibo with the former's open, star-shaped faces, introducing elegance and lightness. Astrantia Roma® fills in, with its fine pin-cushion detail, creating a smooth transition between the different forms. Craspedia Paintball Pop does its clean yellow sphere thing, while Agapanthus Poppin' Star and Aster Flash round it out.
An interesting aspect of the composition is that the flower heads sit almost on a single plane, creating a mosaic-like surface of colors and textures, making it almost feel like a color study or a part of a garden seen from above. The restrained, natural materials of the base further emphasize the beauty and individuality of the flowers.
2. Celebrating Summer
This is an abundant hand-tied summer bouquet that brings together some of the season’s most exciting textures and floral forms. Kövér works with deep burgundy and pink, and while the whole arrangement feels like it could easily tip over, it doesn't, because of the flowers he uses.
Sanguisorba Red Dream® does a lot here, its burgundy flower heads introducing natural movement that keeps it from looking fixed in place. The airy flowers of Astrantia Roma® fill the gaps, without crowding anything, while creating soft transitions throughout. Achillea Neonglow Ember brings its warmth, while Astilbe Vision Inferno adds its feathery salmon-coral into the mix.
Grasses and grain elements in the design evoke the air of an open summer field or meadow, and add a sense of lightness. The deep burgundy and pink tones enrich the color palette, as the flower size and shape variety establish a natural rhythm, revealing new details from every angle. One of the bouquet’s greatest strengths is its ability to remain airy despite its abundance. This nature-inspired hand-tied design celebrates summer’s richness and diversity.
3. A Bouquet of Joy
The structure, in this case, is a disc, hand-made from yarn, string, and natural adhesive. It sits right at the center of everything. Kövér builds outward from it, but leaves room (empty spaces) which are not mere gaps that he forgot to fill, but offer every flower a place to be. The composition is generally defined by its loose and airy lines, featuring flowers like Clematis Amazing® London and Clematis Amazing® Kibo that lighten the outer edges.
Chasmathium Mantis, the oat grass from Marginpar, curves through and softens the design. The Eryngium Gemini Questar® and Eryngium Orion Questar®, on the other hand, hold the middle-ground, their spiky heads giving the design some spine, as they act as a visual anchor that connects the strong central form to the more expressive outer lines. They also draw attention with their unique shapes.
Astrantia Roma® and Achillea Neonglow Ember fill in between, and Aster Flash and Astilbe Vision Inferno take the outer reaches, punctuated by Sanguisorba Red Dream®. Kövér notes that a composition of this size is not just powerful because of the quantity of flowers used, but also because of the balance between flowers and open space. The negative spaces, he says, help the flower express its individual character, while providing a visual pause for the eye and allowing the design to 'breathe.' This approach is key in contemporary floral design.
4. Natural Grasses in Contemporary Design
This may be one of the most interesting designs in the collection. Solidago, Achillea, and Craspedia are among the most popular flowers used in summer compositions, and combined with natural dried grains and grass, they evoke the endless beauty of summer meadows and agricultural landscapes. Their natural appearance and excellent longevity make them ideal for such seasonal designs.
Depending on the chosen structure and form, these flowers always look good in contemporary interior designs or more traditional settings. Their versatility makes them favorites of natural-style and modern floral designers. And when paired with natural materials, they allow florists to work simultaneously with color, texture, and form. For the most part, Craspedia Paintball Pop, Achillea Neonglow Moon, Solidago Carzan® Glory, dried grains, and grasses do the work.
The yellow and cream palette has the flowers’ warm and creamy tones speaking loudly. Craspedia defines the shape of the design, Achillea builds the flat horizontal layer, while the Solidago Carzan® Glory loosens it. None of these flowers is an attention-seeker, which also makes them work well. Put together with dried natural material, the result enhances the summer meadow feel.
About the Flowers Used
Across these designs, a few things keep coming up. First, structural variety can be seen. Marginpar's specialty assortment cuts across a wide range of forms, from the perfectly spherical heads of Craspedia Paintball Pop to the reflexed petals of Gloriosa Simba Fifty Shades, the fine plumes of Astilbe, and the spiky structure of Eryngium.
Second is longevity. Most of the varieties used are known for excellent vase life and perfect performance in either fresh or dried applications. This is important for increasingly sustainability-conscious floral design approaches. Third is their appeal, evident in how Marginpar's specialty cut flowers are sustainably produced on fully FSI-compliant farms.
Botanical Structures Credits: Flowers: Marginpar (@Marginpar) | Design: Krisztián Köver (@botanicart.kover.krisztian) | Photographer: András Rabloczky (@rabloczkyandras) | Assistant: @rovidzsuzsi, @richterkriszta | Model: @ekhanna0221 | Make up: @szilviadobrovitz | Sponsors: @hr.thewireman, @dunavirag_centrum, @salababv, @magyarszarazviragkft.
