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A tremendous job from your heart
What is really cool about creating bouquets of flowers from your very own flower farm is you are apart of the entire process. You are literally taking your flowers from seed, to field to vase. Its where the term farmer/florist fits in perfectly and by what I can tell there are not many of us doing it. Although down in the states there seems to be a movement of farmer florists popping up everywhere. Which is fantastic since 78 percent of the 4 billion cut flower stems purchased in the U.S. — including the roses bought on Valentine’s Day come from Colombia and Ecuador where they are grown in large production greenhouses, then harvested, sorted and shipped…
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The Tears Began to Fall
Preparing for All Dahlia’d Up’s first Market I was mixed with anticipation, dread and excitement. Anticipation to seeing happy customers love the bouquets they purchase, dread and worry that my flowers aren’t good enough and excitement to share my flowers. However, I shouldn’t worried one bit, after all flower seems to capture people attention. The weather was sunny and hot, perfect…The comments ranged from, “your flowers look like velvet” to many, many, beautifuls, lovelies and gorgeous. I sold all but one large expensive bouquet but could have sold more of my smaller ones! It was crazy fun! The most surprising thing happened though. Handing a bouquet to my first customer of the day…
