Flowers by the Fraser

11/01/2024

Busy doing fall things. Taking it slow but getting it done.

Fall field work consists of:
- lots of cutting down plants
- lifting and storing landscape fabric and irrigation
- planting peonies, tulip bulbs and ranunculus corms
- planting hardy plants that we baby through the winter
- mulching everything
- securing the greenhouse for winter

Were also working on lots of online things like some official wedding things, accounting stuff, business reviews, 2025 orders and more.

Every day is a mix of inside and outside tasks but the variety is nice. We don’t currently have any social media content on deck as we’ve just been hustling to complete tasks but if you have any specific questions send them our way and we’ll do our best to help!

Thanks for being here! We’re dreaming up big things for next season!
Marika + Melanie

10/29/2024

In June I made my best friends wedding bouquet with 100% farm grown flowers from a small farm in Pennsylvania.

When Meggy asked me to do the flowers for her wedding I knew I had to support a small flower farm just like mine. After some searching I found a farm that could supply buckets of flowers for the event. When we got there I was blown away by the variety of different flowers they had graciously provided. It was such a lovely experience to meet growers from thousands of kilometres away doing just what we do up here in Canada.

If you’re looking for unique garden style wedding flowers just like these visit our website to inquire www.flowersbythefraser.com.

10/24/2024

🌸FINAL WEEK OF THE SEASON🌸

It’s the last week for our flower stand. You can find $10 bunches of dahlias and sunflowers out from 8-7 Thursday through Saturday this week and then we’re closing it down until next April!

Get your fresh flower fix at 33861 Sim road this week! You can also snag a dried pumpkin or some fresh meat and eggs!

10/22/2024

Are you a little unsure of what you want your wedding flowers to look like? Don’t worry about having it all figured out- it’s normal to not know what you want! After all we’re the experts- not you!

While consultations have previously been optional we’re adding them as a permanent part of our wedding process going forward so we can help bring your vision to life in the best way possible! Either in person over a cup of coffee or over zoom we’ll be meeting with each of our 2025 couples starting this Friday!

Don’t let a little uncertainty keep you from inquiring! July and August is filling up fast so if you’re interested in chatting with us about wedding flowers don’t wait! Visit flowersbythefraser.com to inquire!

10/14/2024

We escaped for a few days down the coast to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving.

How do I say thank you for this season?

This season was a season we went into with some hesitation and no expectation, knowing that finances were tight and flowers not a necessary expense.

But we have the best community, the best followers and some of the most lovely brides who have not only made this season a success but helped us get our name out into the world enough that were already looking at an incredibly busy 2025 wedding season.

As a business owner imposter syndrome can be jarring but with a lot of hard work and a beautifully supportive community we’re closing up another season that we can say was a definite success and we’re putting our eyes ahead and planning for another season that will be even more successful than this one!

So thank you to all of you! This community has helped us grow in so many ways this year. We truly couldn’t run this business without you!

Love, Marika and Melanie

10/09/2024

All the colours of fall 😍

The stand will be open Wednesday through Friday (or until sold out) with $10 bunches, $25 mixed bouquets (just Thursday + Friday), dried floral pumpkins and mini pumpkins.

Come stop by for some beauty to make your Thanksgiving table shine.

📍33861 Sim Road, Abbotsford

10/05/2024

That’s a wrap on market season!

Thank you Abbotsford for your support this season 🫶🏻

We know that flowers are a luxury expense and with the cost of living so high many of you may not have the budget for flowers every week.

But we have so many people who buy flowers every once in a while and some regulars who buy from us every market that we’re there and they get so excited about flowers and it makes us happy to see the joy our flowers bring.

We also appreciate those who come to just chat flowers with us, asking about different varieties and how to grow things in their home gardens.

We’ve met so many of you at our markets and we are thankful for this community.

Love, Marika + Melanie

09/25/2024

Add a little pop of colour to your desk or kitchen table with a cute little dried floral pumpkin.

Available at our website flowersbythefraser.com or order by messaging us.

Mini- $10
Small- $13

Order today for delivery on Friday ( $5 delivery available to Abbotsford and mission). Free farm pickup in Abbotsford is also available.

09/23/2024

Hey! We’re Marika and Melanie, the flower farmers behind this account! Oh and also a hi from our faithful farm mascot Poppuy!

We grow and design specialty flowers on 1/4 acre in Abbotsford British Columbia where the mountains meet the Fraser river, hence our business name.

We started our business on just 3,000 square feet, which is shown in the second photo above. We jammed a few thousand plants and 100 peonies onto this little plot of land.

Last fall we put up a 20x40ft unheated greenhouse named “The Bloom Room” and broke ground for our new main field. Everything in picture 3 is new to us growing space this year (except the 5 raised dahlia beds which we grew in in 2023). Now we’re growing on around 10,000 square feet which is around 1/4 acre and we plan to stay around this size for a few years.

We’ve had such a beautiful season working with various brides, florists and sending out bouquet subscriptions as well as attending markets.

Our two focuses for the coming year are wedding florals and flower subscriptions! We’ll be sharing more about these in the months to come so stay tuned!

We talk a lot about everyday farming life and flower availability on our stories so make sure to keep an eye on those if you’re interested in our flowers.

Thank you for being here!
Marika and Melanie

09/17/2024

Summer is slowly slipping into fall.

The weather looks like it’s turning. Flowers will be over in around a month or sooner if we get consistent rain.

We have dahlias, asters and zinnias still putting on a show and more sunflowers getting ready to bloom.

Order your bouquet before the season draws to a close. Just tell us your budget and we’ll put together something beautiful for you. Send us a message with order yours today!

Pictured is a beautiful bucket of blooms going out the door tomorrow morning 🌸

09/13/2024

I hope if you grew anything this season you take a moment before the season ends to sit down and look at what you’ve created with nothing but seeds, dirt compost and maybe a little fertilizer.

It’s quite a beautiful thing to witness bare dirt turn into a wilderness of colour.

Usually during the main season you’re hustling and it’s chaos and you forget what a wondrous privilege it is to be able to grow something that is beautiful to look at or delicious to eat.

So stop one of these days and take a moment. Sit down. Breathe. Look around you. Smile. Remember what it feels like to be surrounded by beauty before the hustle of preparing for next season starts again.

09/11/2024

BUCKETS OF BLOOMS

Want to DIY your own flowers for your wedding, a birthday celebration, a bridal shower, a dinner party or just for fun?

We sell buckets of farm fresh blooms just for these occasions.

$150/ bucket of 50-70 stems of focal flowers, filler flowers and foliage.

We have these available for just one more month so send us an email to book your date! Email us at [email protected]

08/24/2024

A wildflower bouquet for an engagement shoot for my lovely friend 🌼🌸

Need a bouquet for an engagement shoot, a birthday party or other event? Send us a message and we’ll work with you to create something you love!

Photos by .weddings

08/21/2024

Have you met Poppy yet? Poppy is our “fierce” farm mascot.

She loves ‘little red’ the truck and associates it with going for walks as we drive to the d**e in it.
Every time we drive it around the farm or the neighborhood we have to make sure she gets in the back or she’ll chase us wherever we go 😅.

We love her very much and if you ever drop by the farm she’ll be sure to greet you upon your arrival!

08/19/2024

This week on the flower farm (Aug 19-24).🌼

🌻Sunflower bunches on sale all week- 5 stems for $7 (normally $10). 🌻

Tuesday: Monthly and weekly subscriptions. Florist orders go out. Storm cleanup commences.

Wednesday: Stand open from 8-8 with $10 bunches (sunflowers on special for $7).
Make sure we have everything we need for the wedding this week. Storm cleanup continues. (We’re also at the PNE from 4:30-10pm working the BC egg booth- come see us ☺️).

Thursday: Stand open 8-8 with $10 bunches. (Sunflowers on special for $7). More orders going out to florists. Harvesting for wedding and wedding designing begins (it’s a big one).

Friday: Stand open with $10 and $25 bouquets. Wedding designing all day.

Saturday: Stand open with $10 and $25 bouquets. Wedding setup. One last DIY wedding order going out for the week. (Marika is at the PNE from 4:30-10pm again).

Apparently it’s the week of the year to get married. Were sending out hundreds of stems to local florists and DIY brides as well as picking for a wedding we’re designing ourselves.

We are at capacity for custom orders for the week. If you’d like flowers stop by the stand wednesday through Saturday!

08/15/2024

One day you wake up and you’re living the dream.

This is the first time this season we’ve completely filled up the back of our work truck “little red” with flowers from our fields! Our new field is starting to come into full summer bloom and it’s truly magnificent!

Specialty flowers, grown with love on our small farm to bring joy to your life 🫶🏻

08/15/2024

My favourite dahlia is this one: “Coralie.”

Beautifully pink with a little tinge of purple. I absolutely love her 😍

08/11/2024

Dahlia David Digweed (at least that’s what the tag says 😅).

Last year the dahlias made me cry (more on that later) but this year they’re looking so fine and I smile every time I drive past them!

08/10/2024

Come out and visit our new flower stand location and also pick up some local beef, lamb and eggs!

07/30/2024

We welcomed this week with a much needed shower of rain. It’s an insanely busy week for us so we’re not going to be super available on social media but here’s a glimpse into this week at the farm:

- the first bouquet for our weekly + biweekly subscriptions go out tomorrow (Tuesday).
- Thursday we have a big wedding out in Harrison.
- Saturday we’re at the from 9-12.

🌸 EXCITING NEWS: The flower stand will be CLOSED this week and reopening next weekend in a NEW but close location as we’re partnering up with one of our farmer neighbours 🥳

07/26/2024

About our flower stand:

- we’re gonna be honest, the flower stand is usually not a priority and only gets stocked on weekends when we don’t have too much going on. It’s just not really our thing and we’re not in a super high traffic area.

- with that said, we are hoping to have the stand stocked more often on weekends with mixed bouquets as well as bunches of whatever’s in full bloom that week.

Stand hours: 10am to 7pm Fridays and Saturdays
Cost point: 20-30$ mixed bouquets, 10-20$ bunches

If you are wanting to drive out please ALWAYS check our stories for availability. We always post if the stand is open or not!

Orders can always be placed for pickup on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from our farm in Abbotsford as well!

07/26/2024

Weekly and Biweekly Subscriptions start in just 5 days!

Get fresh flowers on your table every week or every other week to keep your home looking colourful and happy with a flower subscription from our flower farm.

Flower subscriptions can be purchased on our website at www.flowersbythefraser.com or by clicking the links below.

Weekly: $210 for 6 bouquets. Biweekly: $105 for 3 bouquets.

All the flowers in our flower subscription are grown and harvested with love on our flower farm in Abbotsford. We pour our heart into these flowers to bring you something truly special. We would love to have you join us for our subscription program!

We have a special deal on delivery right now. It's 60% off for a total of $20 for a weekly delivery or $10 for a biweekly (normally $8 a delivery). We also have free farm pickup available.

Thank you for supporting small farms like ours. It means the world.

https://www.flowersbythefraser.com/product-page/pickup-weekly-summer-subscription-2024

https://www.flowersbythefraser.com/product-page/delivered-biweekly-summer-subscription-2024

Small batch · Organic · Sustainable- Flowers by the Fraser. We are a small mother-daughter run flower farm in the beautiful Fraser Valley of British Columbia. We sell retail by subscription, custom order, a roadside stand, wedding and events as well as wholesale to florists.

06/24/2024

Happy Sunday Flower Lovers!

I’m breaking our usual Sunday social media fast with an update for y’all:

🌸 Mom leaves tomorrow and I leave Wednesday for a trip to Europe.
🌼 Tomorrow and Tuesday the field is getting prepped for us to leave and people are getting trained to manage the place while we’re away!
🌸 Tuesday monthly subscription bouquets go out as well as a couple orders to florists and a couple custom orders.
🌼 IF YOU WANT FLOWERS this week: Deliveries are being made to Abbogsford, Mission, Yarrow + Langley on Tuesday. We only deliver to Yarrow and Langley once a month so this is exciting! Send us a message to order a bouquet for Tuesday.
🌸 Wednesday June 26 through Wednesday July 17 our farm will be closed to retail orders. We are open for limited wholesale florist orders only during this time.

Thank you for your support and we’re excited to be taking a break. Don’t worry we’re going to be back at it with lots of wedding flowers going out in July and August 😀.

06/17/2024

It’s feverfew season.

We have lots of this gorgeous plant available. Send us a message to claim a bunch or two for you and a friend 🌼

06/14/2024

Meet Melanie. She holds the titles of Co-Owner and Head Florist.

To all of the lovely non flower people head florist basically means that she is the brains and designer behind all of the beautiful bridal bouquets our brides recieve as well as the more intricate wedding ceremony and reception pieces.

With more than 20 years of experience in everyday floristry as well as wedding floristry she brings skills to our team that allows us to turn the flowers we grow into the wedding florals of your dreams!

“It was always my dream to have a field full of flowers after I toured through France and saw the fields of lavender and sunflowers. When I was younger I was raising 5 kids and helping my husband start a construction company so there was no time for it. Now all the kids are grown and there’s time to pursue this dream. Farming is in our blood- I grew up on a dairy farm, so my dad was a farmer, my grandpa was a farmer, his dad was a farmer.”

When she was working as a florist in a flower shop her dream was always to grow her own flowers to work with. That dream has come to life in the best way through our flower farm.

With Melanie on our team, you can be assured that you are in good hands when you book your wedding flowers with us.