Mocha Mousse Compote

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The Pantone color of the Year, Mocha Mousse is a fabulous flower-friendly color. The neutral is grounding for so many different accents. It's warm, it's rich, it's brown. Let's look at all the different flowers that you can find using Mocha Mousse.

The flowers, everything from our friends at florabundance.com. Mocha Mousse is such a flower-friendly color. It's super easy. Just go to their website and search by color. Choose brown and everything will pop up. Of course, have to start with roses. Coffee break with the rich, chocolatey coffee color or Moab with the soft blushed brown or even the protea in a soft, beigey brown. So tints, tones, and shades altogether. Of course, you'll also find several different brown foliages and lots of brown accent flowers. So much to choose from the container. A Mocha Mousse compote filled with floral netting taped into place and just add fresh water premixed with flour food.

Let's start with a base of foliage. So many things. The Nandina perfect to match that color palette, cutting it down, breaking it apart just a bit, and then placing it low, letting it drape over the side. Of course, Magnolia is also great and just clipping it apart. That mahogany coppery brown Mocha Mousse at its finest. You want to go darker into the agonis, a very deep, rich, chocolatey brown, giving it a cut and then letting that drape in there. The popular pieris, the berries follow through on the color, breaking it down, setting it in, adding nice texture, and then of course, the chocolate brown ti leaves. They're so grand. Giving it a cut and then just rolling it over on itself, piercing through, and then placing it in to cover your mechanics.

Starting with the beigey brown of the protea kind of represents that contentment and stability that Mocha Mousse is known for. Removing the foliage and then placing it close to the center so that it definitely pulls your eye inward, and then adding another coming up behind it, drawing back towards the center of the arrangement. Then to finish tucking in some branches. This is the perfect color for foraging, roadside branches, maybe from your own yard, things that will enhance that brown hue and frame looking inwards at the emphasis area.

Adding in a few more Mocha Mousse flowers, cymbidiums. They come in miniature like this and full size both in that beautiful mocha color. Letting that come up through the focal emphasis area. Make sure to get it down into the netting well. Then coming back with the roses, keeping them a little lower to add substance to the base of the arrangement. The coffee break coming out from the front, the Moab and I can group them, bringing them towards the front and then also towards the back. Then scabiosa pods isn't that great. Following the same color palette would come up on the opposite side over with the branches.To finish, just adding some fun details. The bunny tails dried will be so fun in here. I tape them together just using corsage tape makes them easier to insert. Think about how long you need them to be. Break it off, and then just giving it a cut, and those can slide in through the center to add a little more texture, little fun, little movement. Spread 'em out a little bit. Dried beech, just breaking it down and then tucking it to get a little extension movement out to the sides. Finding the perfect little spot for it. You can see there's so many different materials. The leucadendron that a great color palette goes right with breaking it down, using bits, adding in a little more texture, making sure to carry it through to the back to finish it off. Then for a very light touch over the top, the eyelash clematis picks up the ivory from the beige protea. Just giving it a cut, letting it come out over the top a little longer, adding a delicate touch to the arrangement.

The recipe, everything from our friends at florabundance.com, I started with a base of foliage, the Magnolia, beautiful copper and green. Then the Ti Leaves and chocolate brown for richness. A little bit of Pieris for the texture, then Nandina to fill in, and the Agonis for that chocolate brown, the intensity. Then everything framed with the foraged branches. Love that. Flower wise, we had five of the Moab Roses, the lighter color, five of the coffee roses in the darker. Then two of the Protea, three Scabiosa Pods and one stem of the Miniature Cymbidium. Then to add a little bit of texture and substance, the Leucadendron, three stems and the Eyelash Clematis five stems. Then lastly, just a little bit of dry and preserved Bunny Tails for a little touch of whimsy and beech to extend and enhance.

The Pantone color of the year, it's rich, it's indulgent, it's comforting. It's one of my favorites for several years, and I think as you start using the flowers and hunting them out, you'll fall in love with it as well. You'll find more creative inspiration, including many videos on the Pantone colors of the year at flowerschool.com. If you have questions, you can reach us through there, but now it's your turn. Find your Mocha Mousse flowers. Create an arrangement. Then, take a picture and post it on social media. Be sure to #FloralDesignInstitute. That way we all can see what you do as you do something you love.