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Terrain Designer Matthew Muscarella Shares His Secrets for Unforgettable Floral Arrangements
10.08.2023 - 11:45 / bhg.com
Amy Batog
Matthew Muscarella was young when his interest in botanicals started. “I was a semiprofessional gardener by the age of 10,” he jokes, talking about how he grew up planting alongside his mother and earning money assisting a local gardener. That early experience proved formative. “I see beauty not just in flowers but also in the leaf of a houseplant or a branch or a weed,” he says.
His perspective has made him uniquely qualified as a designer for Terrain, the national plant and garden decor store based in the Philadelphia area. “It’s owned by a fashion company, so it’s an exciting intersection of style and botanicals,” says Matthew, who also studied landscape architecture.
Whether he’s creating a floral installation for a wedding or designing a garden for a homeowner, he aims for originality. “I try to create something new that my client hasn’t seen before, that I haven’t seen before,” he says.
His floral arrangements (often showcased on Instagram @mattymuskrat) are a little wild, often irreverent, and always surprising. A passionate collector, he has amassed a large assortment of unusual thrifted vessels over the years. He regularly forages, both in the wild and at the grocery store, for elements to tuck into displays. And he frequently clips stems from his own yard—though it’s not a traditional cutting garden. “Growing things with arrangements in mind would almost be too easy for my approach,” he says. “The hunt, the challenge of creating an arrangement from something you wouldn’t expect—that’s my dopamine.”
Amy Batog
Matthew Muscarella’s arrangements often combine cultivated and wildflowers with houseplant clippings and fruit. Here, he started with a pink weigela branch, a yellow peony, and yellow roses from the
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