Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too tall. Cut it down a bunch - it will look so much better.

I like a beautiful bowl filled with fruit, or a platter with veggies on a countertop. Flowers go on the table. And while those branches are lovely, they seem lost in that cylindrical vase.

I like it! It’s beautiful, eye catching, above the normal arrangement. A+! :-)

Nice for a party, but in the way for everyday.

Why? It’s in the way.

What is the reason for the arrangement? Are you doing it for staging, selling, etc? Or are you doing it for your own personal enjoyment?

Though not where I'd put it, it is attractive so, if it makes you smile when you see it, keep it where you can see it as long as it's also not in your way.

You can use the flowers there but I would shorten the stems some and pick a different vase that’s shorter, wider at bottom, and small at the top. I think it will look better balanced. To use the vase you have I think it would look best to have a lot more branches to fill out the top of the vase.

Few examples of vases.

If you’re going to use the flowers I’d remove the faux boxwood. One or the other but that’s a personal preference.

That arrangement on the counter is no more in the way than a large bowl of fruit.

I don’t need access to my entire island to food prep, etc.

I don’t have a problem with the height, necessarily, but it’s way too big for your small island. I’d go with one small succulent or fern and call it good... eliminate everything else.

I was inspired by this photo

A bit to fancy for the room IMO. I would select something that was easier to move.

Something about the size of the flower part looks odd. Too skinny on the bottom or too much poof on top? I like the rest of it.

Flowers are too tall (and vase is too short).

I'd also move it to the dinning table facing the kitchen instead. :)

Do you use the island? Move it all to your dining table

Your inspiration is an obstacle course to view anyone seated at the table. It’s a inside joke to keep people away from gathering in a space. On the island, it’s an even worse obstacle course to seeing family and friends, and WORKING.

You don’t need to gild the lily. Decorating with things that create dysfunction is a disservice to design.

Move the whole thing to an entrance hallway table. Then release the branches, cut, and arrange as if they were real flowers. For the kitchen island, you could use a small bowl of fresh sunflowers, the whole thing no larger than a soccer ball.

No real flowers are too fancy for any room. Cut or growing, flowers evoke smiles and bring joy even to people not as "fancy" as the very rich.

Shorter (Left ) Longer (Right)

still wrong vase

I guess I don't understand the point of having an assemblage of non kitchen items in a working space. The tray, the little box, the candle, the plaque, all seem to belong somewhere else.

What’s the point of this tray with things on it, i.e., whom are you trying to impress?

I believe she said she was inspired by a photo.

Joyce I like your arrangement and would go with the shorter of the two you showed. Do you have a buffet you can place it on instead? Just thinking you may prefer it someplace where you can still walk by to see/enjoy it, but that isn't in a place where you have to move it in order to prep, cook, eat etc :)

Thank you! The reason I want the arrangement on the kitchen island is b/c the kitchen where I spend most of my time. I love cherry blossoms, it brings me a lot of joy. I do have enough work space for food prep and can easily move the items b/c it's all on a tray

Are you going to come back here every time you need to change the flowers? Or are you going to cast it in amber and never change it? Can you really not make a decision that is so simple? Like it? Keep it. Don't like it? Change it. What could be simpler?

Only you will ever see it; you're the only one who needs to approve, not a bunch of strangers on the internet.

Tatts, that is awfully strange advice for someone who frequents a decorating forum. We don't get life or death questions here. Some people fret over wall colors, others over appliance handles and some about sink placements. If I don't have something helpful, constructive or flattering to say, I tend to stay mum.

I like the arrangement being right out in front on your countertop. As you said, it can easily be moved since it is all on the tray. It keeps your countertop decorative and special. Easier to keep it from getting cluttered if you have something pretty to look at. I like the shorter stems better but that's just me. I also like the photos above where the stems are carefully spaced out in the vase instead of bundled up.