If flowers catch your eye, you may have recently noticed that something looks a little bit different. While dense low arrangements and tall stately creations are perennially popular, a new style that is a little bit looser with its own internal sense of balance has come on the scene.

Of course, asymmetrical arrangements aren’t actually new — their popularity has waxed and waned since first being popularized by Constance Spry (1886-1960), who caused a big stir in post-World War I England when she started working with branches from flowering trees and plants from the kitchen garden, such as kale. This style of arrangement is having a moment now, and it’s a style that is perfectly suited to making use of something that’s blooming in the local landscape or a few exotic blooms just waiting for their starring moment.