Girl in a White Dress
Hunting Creek Garden Club
Dottie Hawkins, Kim Griffith, and Melissa Sigler.
2023 installation
2nd Floor - Great Staircase and Landings
The Inspiration
The Flowers
Florist’s inspiration: For us, it was love at first sight with "Girl in a White Dress." The painting is exquisite, both simple and stunning, and we wanted our design to match the subtle beauty of this piece. Inspired by her gown, we selected a gold and white vase with gentle lines. A predominately white flower palette in different textures and tones, arranged in an elongated curve, suggests the elegance and curves of the woman depicted in this study. Our intention was to create an arrangement that is delicate, yet striking-just like the "Girl in the White Dress."
Recipe: Seasonal white flowers in different textures and tones
THE DESIGNER
Dottie Hawkins, Kim Griffith, and Melissa Sigler
Hunting Creek Garden Club
The Hunting Creek Garden Club in Alexandria, Virginia, was established in 1943 with the mission of promoting interest in civic planning, amateur gardening, and to aid in the protection of native trees, shrubs, wildflowers, and birds.
Through years of community and member support, the Club has participated in conservation and beautification projects within or around Alexandria, including Ramsey House (Alexandria’s Visitor Center), Alexandria Hospital, Lee-Fendall House, Huntley Meadows Park, Carlyle House, The Athenaeum, Community Lodgings Children’s Produce Garden, Green Springs Garden, restoration of the Stabler-Leadbetter Apothecary in Alexandria, Mason Neck State Park, and, most recently, has gifted a native plant garden to the grounds of the Pope-Leighey House, and a garden to the courtyard at Carpenter's Shelter.
The Hunting Creek Garden Club has also supported Alexandria City High School students with the granting of college scholarship funds to a number of students seeking higher education in the fields of horticulture, environmental conservation and landscape architecture.
Every year, in April, Hunting Creek Garden Club, along with the Garden Club of Alexandria, hosts the Historic Garden Week home tour in Old Town Alexandria. Proceeds from this tour fund the restoration and preservation of Virginia's historic public gardens, and provide graduate level research fellowships across the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Today the club is comprised of women who are dedicated to furthering its mission of conservation and preservation, and who still delight in flower arranging and gardening. Arrangers representing Hunting Creek Garden Club for Art in Bloom are Dottie Hawkins, Kim Griffith, and Melissa Sigler.
PHOTOGRAPHED BY
Costola Photography
Andie Ingagliato started her career as a fine art portrait photographer in 2008. Her passion for gorgeous imagery started with studies in classical music and theater which led to her receiving her BFA in photography and film from one of the top art programs in the nation: Virginia Commonwealth University.
Her wedding and portraiture work has been featured in Style Me Pretty, Washingtonian Weddings, The Knot, Martha Stewart Weddings and acknowledged by fashion designers, including Draper James.
Her characteristic style combines romance and editorial perspective with authenticity. She is uniquely gifted with bringing a sense of finesse into everything she touches while making it seem completely effortless. After 15 years of capturing weddings and families during the most precious times of their lives, she can truly say that this is exactly where she is meant to be.
When she isn't photographing weddings, Andie enjoys the outdoors alongside her husband, Tony and daughter, Ava.
