I love all things floral.

Actual flowers (especially those just waiting patiently in their sleeves for me to scoop them up!), flowers represented in art (from Botticelli to Warhol), flowers and plants that come together to create gorgeous gardens, and flowers as inspiration for everything else in life, from decorating to cooking to traveling to shopping! Along with my passion for flowers comes a love for historic houses and estates, antiques (usually English), silver, china, colorful fabric, wall coverings, trim and accessories.  But I don’t stop there.

These days, as an empty nester who flatly refuses to go back to practicing structured finance law (do you blame me??), I seek out new destinations, new books, new ideas and new products that, in one way or another, involve floral elements (even in the tiniest way!).  And if I'm not exploring the world around me for new things, I’m creating arrangements or working on my new line of floral themed accessories.

 
Betsy Gibson Design

Betsy Gibson Design

 

When it comes to my arrangements, I'm always on the lookout for the unexpected--elements that I can incorporate into my designs to enhance their beauty and create interest. Having studied with the amazing Paula Pryke in London, I tend to create designs that speak to the British tradition, but I never forsake my first and favorite floral influences--my mother and my grandmother and our beloved Williamsburg and Charlottesville, Virginia--with a little bit of NYC thrown in for good measure. I’ve also trained and been certified as a professional floral designer by Cass School of Floral Design in Boston. So I’ve made the rounds and have many and varied influences.  All wonderful and all important.

EXPERIENCE

I have created floral designs and decorations for:

  • House tours of pre-Civil War era homes (Boston area);

  • Weddings (Newport, RI);

  • Luncheons and dinner parties (Boston, New York, San Francisco);

  • Collegiate alumni events (Boston area);

  • Art In Bloom at the Muscarelle Museum of Art (Williamsburg, VA--Guest Arranger);

  • Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s 2017 Garden Party (Florals for inside the Cheney-Baltzell Manor House as well as for the Italianate Garden off of the ballroom)

  • Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s 2018 “Festival of Trees”;

  • “Rooms in Bloom 2019” for the Hill-Stead Museum (Farmington, CT)

  • Various other Boston area nonprofits.

 
Betsy Gibson Design

Betsy Gibson Design

 

OFFERINGS

I'm available by appointment for:

  • Consulting

  • Designing and Arranging

  • Workshops

  • Holiday planning of your floral and greenery dreams, both inside and outside the home

ASSOCIATIONS

I am a current member of the Garden Club of the Back Bay in Boston and a former member of the Weston Garden Club. I served on the Committee for the Massachusetts Horticultural Society's 2017 Garden Party and designed and contributed a tree for their 2018 “Festival of Trees”. I am also a former member of the Nantucket Garden Club, where I served as a judge for the Nantucket Flower Show in 2014. I am also an honorary member of the Williamsburg Garden Club (Virginia), a Club that is very close to my heart! And that is *plenty* about me!! I hope that you will enjoy the site and visit often. And please follow me on Instagram, Pinterest, FB, and anywhere else I may happen to end up….and don’t forget to subscribe to the website!

xo betsy