If you love Motörhead and your partner, these floral arrangements might just rock your world.
Ace of Vase, the Burbank shop florist Sheri Scott opened in 2015, gets its name from a Motörhead song.
Scott’s flowers may be lovelier than the heavy metal classic “Ace of Spades,” but it’s a fitting reference: Her arrangements are powerful, cutting edge and – sometimes – come in vases covered with spikes.
Even so, Scott says people often assume she named the store after the far less hardcore Swedish pop group Ace of Base, who had a string of hits in the 1990s and, coincidentally, have an album titled “Flowers.”
“Honestly, if that’s what draws them to me, I’m not going to correct them,” Scott says on a recent afternoon inside the store. “It’s whatever their interpretation is. It’s still music-related.”
Ace of Vase is tiny, taking up the front portion of art gallery/bookshop Hyaena, but it’s packed with flowers and gifts.
There’s a rainbow array of Forever Roses, blooms that have been preserved and, Scott says, can last years if – like mogwai in the ‘80s horror film “Gremlins” – they are kept away from water and direct sunlight.
There are live flowers and plants in here too: roses, hydrangea and green ball dianthus amongst them. The latter has become a staple of Scott’s arrangements.
“They’re really long-lasting and a really cool texture,” she says.
As a teenager in Massachusetts, Scott got her start working at a supermarket and helping out in the floral department. That led to floral design school. She went on to run a shop in Boston for more than a decade before moving to Los Angeles in 2005 where she worked with “some A-list shops.”
L.A. had an impact on her career that goes beyond flower-friendly weather.
“Money definitely flows a lot more here than it does on the East Coast.
