Tayama's Featured Floral Designer Mark Massie

Featured Floral Designer for Spring 2004

Mark S. Massie, AIFD of Bucyrus, Ohio is our 2nd Quarter 2004 Featured Floral Designer. Tayama sponsored the florals for Mark's recent design show held at Engel Wholesale Florist in Columbus, OH on Sunday, March 7, 2004. His innovative show featured tropical florals in Funeral piece work.

Mark has been providing quality Floral Artistry for over 20 years. As a freelance designer and show lecturer, he is now branching out to express his passion for this art nationally and internationally.

Mark S. Massie, AIFD Mark has studied with the elite in the floral industry, such as: Phil Rulloda AIFD, AAF, PFCI & Sung Ki Yun AIFD, AIFA at the Phil Rulloda School of Floral Design, Anaheim, California and Dr. Barbara Fails at the Michigan State University. He has taken classes with Howard Silver AIFD, JM.H. Schwanke and Debbie Cueto AIFD.

Mark is the 2003 John Henry Company "Never-Wilt" Spray Bar contest winner and has been nationally published in "Your Success" Magazine and "Longaberger Homestead" Magazine.

For Programs and Classes, Mark can be reached at the contact information listed below. Pictured here are some of Mark's innovative designs for the Engel Wholesale Florist show.

Featured Designer: Mark S. Massie, AIFD
Address:	330 Sheckler St. Bucyrus, OH 44820
Phone:	(419) 562-8535
Weblink:	Mark Massie
Email:	msmaifd@earthlink.net

This casket spray was designed in a cost-effective casket saddle. Here, I decided to make an assymetrical spray by clustering my botanicals. To give this spray a little touch of the traditional, I used good 'ol Football Mums and Blue Delphinium.

This Grapevine wreath gives new flavor to the traditional style wreath. I have used two igloos and secured them with chenil stems. I clustered white carnations for the tradtional feel and then extended my green and white anthuriums and just rested the variegated abake at the base in the bottom igloo. In the top igloo, I used japhet orchids, bowed ti leaves, cut palmetto, scotch broom and another small cluster of white carnations. Then, to soften the look, I used trimmed plomosus.

For this arrangement, I've chosen to design in an inverted "L" shape using curly willow, glads for a traditional touch, and grouped white anthurium. The focal point is the japhet orchids and the banksia protea, with an echo from the top banksia. I also used Ti foliage straight and bowed.

I used the trunk of a tree, secured to one brick of wet foam inside a utility dish, for this arrangement. Since the trunk was hollow, I designed inside it, creating my line with curly willow, ginger, and a strellzia leaf. I pillowed red roses inside the trunk and cascaded my oncidian orchids. Then, I feathered the Ti foliage with my fingernail to create some transparency. The foliage blanket is made from lemon leaf and glued to matching upholstery fabric.

This casket spray is designed in a piece of wood. The natural concave of the wood easily fit an igloo, which was secured with hot glue. I clustered Lavender Roses and inserted orchids in water tubes into the foam. I caged the roses and orchids using stripped ivy vine.

Another of my designs, featuring Bird of Paradise and red anthuriums.

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