While using local flowers and reducing plastic in your studio might be two goals you have as a wedding or retail florist, they may not intuitively feel related to you. The truth is that using local flowers for your arrangements can actually help you reduce the amount of plastic in your studio substantially! I recently […]

Anyone who has been following my business knows how I feel about local flowers. If you don’t know, let me reiterate my wish for local flowers. I LOVE local flowers. My company has been committed to buying American Grown flowers and foliage for many reasons:  1) The product is fresher, generally cut into fresh water and […]

This past August, I was finally lucky enough to take an informative visit to local CA flower farms.  I attended The Floral Source‘s Retreat to California to visit the flower farms around Santa Cruz.  We stayed at the beautiful Sand Rock Farm, which is open for weddings and other special events and it served as […]

Well, we are wrapping up June with American Flowers Week!⁠ ⁠ Maybe you have heard of American Grown Flowers or Slow Flowers?  Slow Flowers is a movement, started by Debra Prinzing, which educates consumers about the importance of making a conscious choice to purchase cut flowers which have been grown domestically (preferably locally), instead of […]

So you have seen all the behind-the-scene pics from my amazing trip to Vermont this fall.  Here is the culmination of all our hard work – a foam free, completely American Grown fall-inspired wedding arch, with matching bouquet and boutonniere.  Honestly, I think this is some of my favorite work….but as you know, I say […]

About a month ago, I was lucky enough to be able to attend The Floral Field Trip, to beautiful Waitsfield, Vermont.  The purpose of the trip was to learn more about sourcing American Grown Flowers and to build relationships with several American Grown flower sources in the area.  As you probably know, using American Grown […]

Wanna know a secret? This American Grown Picnic Elopement was supposed to be based around the Lily of the Valley that grow at my home studio in Frederick, MD.  These flowers are usually cost prohibitive to use, unless you can get them locally, which happens for about 1 week in May.  My planner, Brielle, and […]

On Mother’s Day Weekend, I was part of a volunteer design team for the 106th First Lady’s Luncheon, hosted by the Congressional Club.  Each year the Congressional Club hosts a bi-partisan luncheon in honor of the First Lady to benefit a charity (or charities) of her choice.  This year’s luncheon benefited Lily’s Place, in Huntington, […]