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Stay Flower Happy Year Round
As a professional self-proclaimed flower-freak and farmer I see flowers everywhere I go. I purposely seek them out 365 days a year. Can you relate? The winter months especially here Alaska can be kind of tricky. Our local greenhouses are closed for the winter and the grocery store flowers are really not that fresh. Weekly I eagerly scour the discounted “old” bouquet corner in hopes to find something I can rescue for the dinning room table. Of course in the summer, May-through 1st. hard frost I’m surrounded by all the blooms I grow here on the farm. So by the time November rolls around I can hardly wait to start amaryllis for indoor…
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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…
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Misty’s “More Flowers” Forecast for 2021
Happy New Year! Not the best picture but this is me saying no more 2020…LOL Seriously though, I predict it’s gonna be an even bigger year for buying local anything, including flowers. I also see more of the good that was created last year carry over to 2021. The chaos aka “The great pause” has created a space of opportunity for creatives to go all out, to make millions, if not billions. Have a book idea, product, or service? Now’s the time to seize the day. Further, I believe we will want more of anything that makes us feel less stressed, uplifted yet grounded, and “normal.” This means beautifying our work and living…
