Home for Christmas: K Wakefield Designs

Chattanooga-based floral talent Kakhi Huffaker Wakefield creates arrangements with familiar Christmas flowers and abundant greenery, along with a host of supporting players that set the stage for holiday cheer from the entry hall to the dining room

floral designer Kakhi Huffaker Wakefield of K Wakefield Designs

The designer in front of a charming vignette with some of her favorite silver and Christmas decorations

“I grew up watching both my grandmothers and mother arranging flowers and enjoying the garden. I think working with flowers comes naturally to me,” says Kakhi Huffaker Wakefield of Chattanooga. “And after I did a workshop with Laura Dowling at FlowerSchool New York, I was bitten by the floral bug and never looked back!”

ENTRY HALL

Grand green and white holiday floral design by Kakhi Huffaker Wakefield of K Wakefield Designs, placed on a round entry table in an elegantly styled foyer. A dog lies beneath the table

November December 2020 | Floral design by Kakhi Huffaker Wakefield of K Wakefield Designs | Produced by Alice Welsh Doyle | Photography by David Hillegas | Percy the poodle waits by the entry table to greet holiday visitors.

Percy the poodle waits by the entry table to greet holiday visitors. Find a list of materials and Kakhi’s step-by-step tutorial for this festive floral arrangement.

SIDEBOARD

A pair of lush arrangements fill antique sterling silver drinking horns on a sideboard festooned with decorative Christmas trees.

MATERIALS

Green grapes
Cedar
‘Wild Eclair’ green spray roses
‘Green Lemonade’ roses
Double ranunculus
Green parrot tulips
Star of Bethlehem
Veronica
Green hypericum berry
Variegated Italian pittosporum
Aucuba

CENTERPIECE

green and white floral arrangement featuring amaryllis by floral designer Kakhi Huffaker Wakefield of K Wakefield Designs

For a gorgeously over-the-top centerpiece, Kakhi used a tureen in Herend’s Chinese Bouquet pattern.

MATERIALS

Green grapes
Amaryllis
Mix of greenery (curly pine, cypress, gold-tipped cedar, magnolia, aucuba, galax leaves)
Poinsettia
Ornamental kale
Bells of Ireland
Snapdragons
Veronica
Viburnum
Spray roses
‘Green Lemonade’ roses
Green parrot tulips
Double ranunculus
Queen Anne’s lace
Lisianthus
Green eryngium
‘Winterbells’ hellebores

PLACE SETTING

When planning her floral concept for a Christmas at home, Kakhi took a cue from the green and white palette of Herend’s Chinese Bouquet china, a family favorite. She accented each place card/bud vase with a tiny bunch of cypress.

See Kakhi’s step-by-step tutorial for a floral arrangement inspired by the china pattern.

Flower magazine November December 2020 cover

This story appears in Flower magazine’s Nov/Dec 2020 issue. Subscribe to the magazine or sign up for our free e-newsletter.

Produced by Alice Welsh Doyle | Photography by David Hillegas | Floral design by Kakhi Huffaker Wakefield of K Wakefield Designs, kwakefielddesigns.com