Julia Finlayson鈥檚 beautifully minimal and textured pieces are right at home here at TFS. Delicate bud vases for little blooms. Incense and pillar candle holders for your tablescape or entryway. Dishes and pots with expressive glazes. Julia can truly do it all.

As floral designers, we know the best results come from just a bit of direction, plus lots of freedom to play and create. With Julia, we were able to strike that balance. She took the functionality we had in mind and ran with it, creating a stunning (and collectible 鈥撎齳ou鈥檝e been warned) collection for us.

Incense Holders

Taper Candle Holders

Planters & Pots

Pillar Candle Holders

Match Strikes and Vessels

The collection is now available in 香蕉视频.听All pieces are limited and one-of-a-kind. We hope you'll enjoy them as much as we have already.

Photos by Jen Huang

Style No. 1: IKEBANA

Ikebana is the Japanese art of floral arranging or 鈥渕aking flowers alive.鈥� Often minimal, asymmetrical, and unexpected, these arrangements typically rely on flower frogs and low bowls as bases.

Expert tip: Less is more! Build your arrangement slowly to avoid over-crowding.
Supplies used: Ceramic Flower Frog Bowl

Style No. 2: Pastoral

Informal and a little wild. These arrangements look like beautiful, naturally-occurring groups. The garden, indoors!

Expert tip: Create texture with a variety of bloom sizes and shapes. For both of these we combined wide, solid petals with delicate, detailed blooms.
Supplies used: Essential Tools

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Style No. 3: Modern

Unexpected combinations, exaggerated lines, and asymmetry. A touch of drama. This style is fun, edgy, and best of all 鈥� forgiving! Great for beginners.

Expert tip: Go against the grain when picking blooms. Mix formal roses with herbs and wildflowers.
Supplies used: Vases

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Style No. 4: Airy

Negative space counts as much as a bloom with these. Keep the number of flower varieties minimal and let plenty of space remain between stems.

Expert tip: Branches are brilliant at getting stable, elegant height. Try flowering dogwood, as seen above, or cherry blossoms.
Supplies: Floral Clippers

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Now, Your Turn

Show us what you create. Tag us on Instagram . The most important tip to remember 鈥� have fun.

A rainy afternoon, spent watering the plants in the TFS studio, inspired this post. May these tips help you grow more familiar with the plants you have 鈥� or invite a new variety into your home.

The Plants

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The Care

Every plant is different and getting to know their preferences is an honor and a joy. Tap through each plant for tending tips:

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Asparagus Fern

African Milk Tree

Philodendron Xanadu

Narrow Sword Fern

Fiddle Leaf Fig

Arrowhead Plant

Parallel Peperomia

Banana Leaf

Dragon Tree

Rubber Plant

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Share your plants with us .

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We choose our packing materials for sustainability and function. Recycled, recyclable, and compostable. Tissue, kraft paper, and cardboard.

(If you get packing peanuts in your order, those are natural and dissolve in water. Dissolve, don鈥檛 toss!)

We love letting these humble materials serve a more beautiful purpose on their way to the compost pile 鈥� gift wrapping. Follow along as Rosalie uses each part of our packaging to wrap a beautiful present, topped with a sprig of evergreen and dried orange.

Show us what you make!

Versatile and beautiful, natural and compostable! A time-honored, festive element to usher in warm fragrance and nostalgia. A great craft to share with kids and enjoy all season long.

Replace your fresh pomander every few days, as needed. Dried pomanders last longer. If you prefer dried, bake at 250 for several hours 鈥� without the ribbon.

Show us what you make!

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Tips from our team to your garden - organic, effective pest repellents, fertilizers, and more.

Pest Deterrents and Fertilizers

• Crush rinsed, cleaned eggshells. Place them around the base of the plant to deter slugs, or mix them into the soil to increase calcium content.

• Soak banana peels in some water for a few hours for use as a quick fertilizer.

• Pour coffee grounds and leftover black coffee around plants that like acidic soil. It also deters slugs, snails, and other pests.

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Acid-Loving Plants

Flowering trees and shrubs: hydrangeas, azaleas, dogwoods, magnolia

Vegetables: sweet corn, cucumbers, lettuce, leeks, eggplant

Herbs: lemongrass, thyme, rosemary, basil, oregano

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DIY Insecticide

Add 2-3 tsp of dish soap to 1 gallon of water.

Spray every 2-3 days until the infestation is gone.

Fungus and weeds, be gone!

• Sprinkle ground turmeric, or apply a quick paste (made with a touch of water), to heal a damaged plant as it has antibacterial & antifungal properties.

• Sprinkle ground cinnamon on the topsoil of both indoor & outdoor plants as a fungicide. Cinnamon reduces the growth of mold and mildew on the soil and also keeps away mosquitoes, gnats, and mites.

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DIY Fungicide

Mix 1 gallon of water with 3 Tbsp vegetable oil.

Funnel into a spray bottle.

Spray on leaves, front and back.

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DIY Weed Eliminator

Mix 1 gallon white vinegar, 1 cup salt, and 1 Tbsp dish soap.

Funnel into a spray bottle.

Spray on leaves and stems of weeds, but avoid saturating the soil!

Arber Plant Care Collection

Add a nourishing organic boost to your garden and houseplants with Arber, a science-backed line of plant wellness products for indoor and outdoor green spaces.

Organic Plant Food, Organic Bio Fungicide, Organic Bio Protectant, Organic Bio Insecticide are available in our Garden Collection here.

Cheers to your garden thriving, and your future harvests, whether vegetables or blooms. Show us what you grow!

We鈥檝e condensed our own years of trying and testing into a collection of versatile, quality essentials, all made in Japan.

Our floral clippers and floral pin frogs are perfect for precise floral arranging and practicing ikebana.

Japanese craftsmanship is unparalleled in the world of tools. The Japanese tool industry grew out of a long tradition of swordsmithing katana 鈥� or close-combat samurai swords. Precision blacksmithing and quality design have created a legacy of durable, reliable tools, from gardening and cooking to floral arranging and woodworking.

For 香蕉视频, we鈥檝e collected our core necessities for floral arranging and gardening. We hope these tools bring you hours of enjoyment and creativity.

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Our Collection

1. Hori Hori Knife

   Hori means 鈥榯o dig鈥� in Japanese, but these nimble and versatile garden knives do that and more. Sometimes referred to as a weeding knife, our Hori Hori Knife is also ideal for digging holes for transplants or bulbs, dividing, and pruning. It is crafted with one serrated edge and one smooth, using Japanese blacksmith heat treatments and techniques.

2. Garden Pruners

   These razor-sharp and lightweight pruners are a must-have for the home gardener. Perfect for light- to medium-duty pruning, these shears will be your go-to tool for deadheading roses, perennials, and annuals. Use for shaping shrubs, ornamentals, and fruit trees. Excellent for reviving old bouquets with woody stems and foraging branches from the woodland for vase forcing.

3. Garden Tool Set

   Perfect for small gardening tasks, houseplants, or tending to seedlings. A great size for little green thumbs, too. Both tools are hand-crafted, using Japanese sustainable beech wood for the handles and Japanese stainless steel blacksmith heat treatments and techniques.

   TROWEL

   Features hand-sharpened edges for optimal depth and angle for slicing through soil and roots with ease.

   CULTIVATOR

   Features hand-formed prongs creating optimal angles to make your weeding and cultivating tasks easy.

4. Floral Pin Frogs, Smoke and Stainless Steel

   A kenzan, commonly known as a pin frog, is the essential tool used to create Japanese-inspired ikebana floral arrangements and is also the foundation of any architectural arrangement. Ours are sharp and precise, with a sturdy weight and removable, non-slip rubber base.

5. Floral Clippers

   Our original 鈥� one of the first tools we created for TFS. With teflon-coated carbon steel blades and thermoplastic elastomer handles, the ergonomic design remains comfortable in the hand as you work. Ideal for trimming flowers, pruning plants, or cutting herbs and vegetables from the garden. Truly, the only pair you will ever need.

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Taper Candle 101

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Pillar Candle 101

Using our Candle Helper and Candle Sharpener

Our taper candles are dipped to the standard 7/8鈥� base, but can vary as a result of the dipping process.

• Too big? Shave a bit off with our Candle Sharpener.

• Too small? Add Candle Helper wax as needed.

Tap below to watch instructions.

Every gardening endeavor takes a bit of trial and error. Every wilted leaf has a lesson. Every unproductive plot yields tips for next season.

Our team rounded up some recent learnings from their gardening attempts 鈥� successful and otherwise! Scroll on for tips.

For consistent harvests:

鈥淪uccession planting! You can get pretty sophisticated about staggering maturation dates, but the simplest way to make sure you're harvesting all summer long is to space out plantings of any given vegetable by 2-4 weeks.鈥� 鈥� Rosalie

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Apartment gardening:

鈥淢ike and I currently have a window herb garden (TFS herb seeds!). Only tip I can think of for these is to make sure they are in a sunny window spot and that they are in pots with drainage holes to make sure they aren't over-watered! We love our Genovese Basil for fun summer cocktails.鈥� 鈥撎齁ulia

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Productive planting:

鈥淐ompanion planting is also helpful. Certain vegetables like being grown near each other in gardens (tomatoes, basil, peppers | corn, beans, cucumbers, peas | spinach, strawberries), and planting friends with friends can help increase yield, decrease disease, and limit pests!鈥� 鈥� Caitlin

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For low light:

鈥淚 don鈥檛 get a ton of direct light each day due to a huge tree that shades my yard. I have the best luck with leafy greens and herbs. Arugula is my favorite. I did try peas this year to see what would happen and they鈥檙e already growing!鈥� 鈥� Sierra

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Proper spacing:

鈥淚 have a shared garden with my neighbors and we've dedicated a section this year to different varieties of peppers! It's my first time planting them but I've learned how important it is to space peppers more than 12 inches apart so they have the proper room to grow. Needless to say with all of the varieties, we have quite a large pepper garden!鈥� 鈥� Olivia

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鈥�Bring instant atmosphere and more sophisticated fragrances to the party.鈥�

鈥� CATHERINE DASH

Our new Outdoor Incense sticks are here to bring atmosphere to your garden gatherings, be it a weeknight dinner or big event. Keep bugs at bay and get a delicious whiff of natural essential oils as the breeze passes you by.

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SHOP

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From Shakespeare鈥檚 Ophelia to the orange blossom crowns of ancient China; from Frida Kahlo to Ukrainian vinok 鈥� floral crowns have a rich and meaningful history around the world. Plus they just feel pretty. There鈥檚 nothing more beautiful than being adorned in nature.

Scroll on to see what we made and how to craft your own.

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The Flowers

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The Making Of

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The Crowns

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The Tutorial

Grab some blooms and give it a whirl! We鈥檇 love to see what you make.

鈥� Team TFS

Nothing beats the pure delight of a new houseplant 鈥� especially this time of year! We picked up a few new plants for the TFS studio, to keep us going while we count down the days to spring.

Scroll on to meet them and bookmark this for easy care tips!

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Potting 101

Tap below to watch!

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