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    Flower High in 25′ Season Highlights

    Getting Flower High in 2025 Year in Review Highlights

    Over 600 bouquets, 11 elopement floral bookings, 50+ arrangements, 50+ farm walk tour goers and 2 sold-out dinner tours=’s more people getting flower high in 2025 than ever!  Besides flowers holding on into October with the long fall Mother Nature blessed us with I bring to you my most favorite season highlights. Taking the stage at the Seattle Northwest Garden & Flower Festival https://www.gardenshow.com/ for the last two February’s  in a row has been a wonderful experience. In 2024 I was talking about growing dahlias in a cold climate. This year I had the pleasure to design with Gina Shrewsberry of Inspirations by Gina on the Bubbles & Blooms stage. Up next the…

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    Why white for the Pantone Color of the year for 2026?

    Royal Wedding Sweetpea

    For the last several years I’ve kept a thumb on the Pantone Color of the year mostly for self entertainment. I like to see “how” each years choice is seen and plays a role in/on my Alaska Grown flower farm. It’s amazing to me how color influences our lives. It started in 2022 with purple/blue Very Peri, then a very on “brand” color for me, Viva Magenta, both in my favorite purple-ish color family. After that the color of a prom dress I had in the 80’s, Peach Fuzz. 2025 was Mocha Mousse not to be confused with the first drive-thru espresso hut in the Valley. The closest expression of this chocolate tone…

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    Alaska Flower Farm 2025 Book Signing Party & Dinner Tours

    Table with flowers and candle

    This year we started with two back to back events in August. The Flower Farmers book signing party with our annual August farm dinner tour following right after. It was a big successful dream of a day. Our winning photographer Kim Landry of Kim & Photo Co. captured them both with summer dreamy wonder and a whole lot of feeling.  The book signing photos were incredible, but when I first opened the gallery of gorgeous  photographs of the dinner, my breath caught. For the first time I felt like my flower farm had grown up. The polished, smoothness of Kim’s talented captures resonated right out from my computer screen. Showcasing the realness of…