Mediterranean Lemon Class — Design Notes from Flower & Twine
Before any stem touched water, the tables at Zina’s Cucina were already glowing with gold bowls filled with citrus and fresh herbs—rosemary, olive leaf, thyme—releasing that green, sun-warmed scent that makes a Connecticut winter forget its manners. Our upcoming class is being built around this idea: let fragrance lead, let color answer.
The Mediterranean Lemon Workshop will invite guests to design directly from these bowls, weaving a selection of winter flowers into landscapes of real fruit and leaves. Think creamy roses beside curling ruscus, bright tulips cutting through eucalyptus, small moments of ranunculus tucked against sprigs that still smell like the market. Nothing stiff. Nothing mass-produced. A centerpiece that feels like conversation drifting across a table.
I’ve always loved objects that refuse to stay ordinary. At Flower & Twine we treat arrangements as gestures, not errands, and this class follows the same rule. The lemons won’t be props—they’ll be collaborators, carrying meaning about hospitality, good fortune, and a little playful excess. Guests will learn how to balance all that gold with all that green, how to let winter blooms feel Mediterranean without pretending they flew in from another country.
What’s new is the pairing:
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citrus + herb aromatics as the structural base
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an intimate 18" design exercise and a bolder 24" option
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bowls of gold becoming small stages for one-of-one winter flowers
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postcard-size notes where guests write what they’re really celebrating
We’re thrilled to be designing this with Zina and that team, letting the menu influence the mood and the mood influence the flowers. And we would love to do more like this—more evenings where food meets floristry, more creative classes that borrow from the Mediterranean, from the seasons, from the people sitting beside you.
Come for the lemons. Stay for the experiment. It's on Jan 27 at Zina's Cucina. All sign ups are handled there.
Leave with an evening you arranged yourself.