Semper Virens

Spring floral arrangement — Alison Taylor Photography

You: Lean towards simple elegance and minimalism, but want some lushness and lots of textures in your florals. You appreciate natural beauty, seasonal flowers and unexpected blooms.

We: Love to create beautiful florals for your event, wedding or everyday life. Our style is spirited and organic, and often Ikebana-inspired. We grow many of our flowers in season.

Workshops: Semper Virens Flowers offers hands-on workshops so you can enjoy this mindful, creative experience with other cool flower people. Learn more about our workshops here.

Mary B. Hayes is a New England floral designer located in Chelmsford, MA. Have clippers, will travel!

Weddings

Events

Women arranging flowers at workshop — Workshops

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Close-up of petalicious ranunculus and spray roses from flower practice last week. Gotta get my designing muscles and reflexes back into the groove! ..
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BTW, the dark peach flowers are alstroemeria. I plucked out the flecked inner petals, and en

Wanted to express my gratitude to my couples from 2024 for their kind words and enthusiastic reviews! I do appreciate that you took the time to do so. It was an honor and a great pleasure to create colorful, spirited florals for your weddings and oth

Getting back into the flower arranging groove by practicing with supermarket flowers. (Don’t judge me, I don’t need bunches of 10 stems for practice and mock-ups.) What are your favorite (non-wholesaler) flower sources? ..
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The salmon-c

Save the Date, people, for Flora in Winter at the Worcester Art Museum, from February 28 to March 2, 2025. This is my favorite art museum, with a world class collection, seriously. And what’s more uplifting than gorgeous flowers and installati

““Mary was a wonderful vendor to work with. She listens carefully to your ideas, adding in suggestions with her breadth of knowledge on plants, color & design. Mary captured my vision of a lively spring garden perfectly in our arrangements! They were absolutely stunning. You can tell that Mary loves sharing the joy of flowers with her clients.”

— Siri D.

Best of Zola 2025