2011 San Diego Christmas Floral Design Show Pictures

2011 Santa Ana Christmas Floral Design Show – Arrangements

2011 Santa Ana Christmas Floral Design Show Pictures – Gallery #1

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Joseph Shinoda was my great-great uncle. He was the president of the San Lorenzo Nursery & Flower Company. During his presidency, San Lorenzo became the largest floral wholesaler in the nation. He was also very active in the industry becoming the president of numerous national floral organizations and associations. After his death, the Joseph Shinoda Memorial Scholarship was established to provide for the future of the floriculture industry by helping college students seeking degrees in the field.

If you would like to learn more, see the Joseph Shinoda Memorial Scholarship website.

If you would like to learn more about the Shinoda Family, see the Shinoda Family post.

We are pleased to announce that Noel Tribbey, AIFD has been added as a designer for the 2011 Santa Ana Christmas Floral Design Show. He and Pearl Barro Navo, AIFD will be our featured designers.

Here is Noel’s bio:

A resident of La Costa, CA, Noel is a thirty-two year veteran of the floral industry. He was the first place winner in the 1990 California Top Ten Designer of the Year competition, and was inducted into the American Institute of Floral Designers in 1991. He has presented at AIFD National Symposium and served as South West Regional President. He most recently served as a member of the AIFD National Membership Committee.

As owner of his own floral event and consulting company, Noel creates stunning florals and Christmas decor for hotels, casinos and private residences. He is in in high demand for his freelance design services with interiors, weddings and corporate events. Noel also enjoys inspiring customers as a merchandising and display consultant, and has worked in that capacity for Shinoda Design Centers for the past eleven years, helping to create the exciting end cap displays in both the Santa Ana and San Diego stores.

Noel has applied his talents to Sweepstakes winning Rose Parade floats and served for fifteen years as a member of the floral design team for the Academy Awards.

We are pleased to announce that Pearl Barro Navo, AIFD will be one of the featured designers at the Santa Ana Christmas Design Show on Sunday September 11, 2011. The following is her bio:

CFD has been in the floral industry for over 25 years. Pearl first began designing in a local shop in high school, and then later working part time while attending college. Flowers have always been her passion, so she looked into floral design as her profession. She began her career by owning the flower shop in the Disneyland Hotel. It was not long after that she then knew the next step would be to get into AIFD , and was inducted in Boston in 1992. She soon founded and planed the new floral department for the Ritz Carlton in Laguna Beach. Later, Pearl began working as a consultant for a high end catering company in Orange County and to this day, continues to add her creative design to their events.

Now, being in AIFD for over 17 years, she enjoys freelancing and traveling for another large event company creating breath taking floral designs for all their shows. Traveling to Hawaii and Jamaica to design floral arrangements for events held by large companies including Nissan and HP, have had to have been a couple of the most exhilarating moments of her design career.