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Bringing the flowers home year highlights
Here’s me ending the long season with a smile on my face, with a body that gets to finally rest a bit, loaded with a million flower dreams for 2023. When looking back over, like I do every year at the long list of amazing happenings I can’t help but wonder, what would my son, Luke think? I’m pretty sure he loves it as most of the time I feel he’s never ever really that far away. I knew for sure at the end of last year that I wanted to open our on-farm seasonal Flower Shop Market on a more regular basis but I wasn’t quite sure if we produced enough flowers…
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Alaska Peony Retreat w/ Petals by the Shore
When I first learned about Kelly Shore’s Peony Retreat that’s during the Celebration in Homer, Alaska I knew I had to join in, especially creating a floral outfit, something I’ve wanted to try ever since I saw the bontical courter design installations at the Northwest Home and Garden Festival in Seattle a few years ago. The application process to attend had me submitting a sketch up with color pallet and outline of my design idea for the Fleur de Paeonia Bontical “dress.” The only rule was I had to use 80% peonies. I also knew I wanted to bring some flowers from my farm to celebrate American Grown flowers and the farmers who…
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Flowers kept showing up
There it was, Bloom Imprints Slow Flowers Journal, “Botanical Couture Summer 2022 edition” with my article Flowers From The Heart; The purple Dahlia within its 88 pages. I can’t even begin to describe seeing my words published where thousands of eyes will take a sneak peak into how I started the business of my dreams, sharing the blooms I grow and their messages of love with the world. I wrote, “They say grief comes from not being able to receive love from the departed and lack of being able to express ours in return. But I’m here to tell you, death doesn’t stop love and a flower showed me.” To read the article…
