The Peony & Pear

03/05/2022

Our Mother's Day Floristry for Sunday delivery is now available to pre-order on our website. (sorry - only limited local delivery this year).

If you are shopping for a lucky Mom in St. Stephen, St. George, or beyond - come shop our floristry in person at the St. Andrews Farmers' Market, Inc hosted at Algonquin Resort, Autograph Collection this Saturday May 7th from 10AM - 2PM.

🥰 This sweetest photo was sent to us last year from a very lucky Mom. Just look how happy that little fella is to be hand delivering one of our bouquets!

11/12/2021

☕ 🎄 see you tomorrow at The Algonquin for the annual SJDA Christmas St. Andrews Farmers' Market .

07/12/2021

Did you have a chance to shop our Christmas Floristry before the website pre-orders sold out?

If not, no need to fret! You will notice our exquisitely seasonal, & *always* local, Christmas Floristry (among many more beautifully crafted, local, artisan goods) dotted throughout St. Andrews by-the-Sea this coming week.

On Sunday December 12th you will be able to find our Signature Christmas Bouquets and Holiday Door Knockers (as well as Andrew and myself!) at the Annual SJDA Fundraiser Christmas Farmers' Market - this year, graciously hosted by the historic Algonquin | St. Andrews Farmers' Market & Algonquin Resort, Autograph Collection

Whether you are looking for a festive McGuire Bouquet (the PERFECT seasonal host/hostess gift), one of the coveted Signature Christmas Bouquets, or a timeless Holiday Door Knocker to adorn your own front door ... we've got you!

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07/12/2021

Did you have a chance to shop our Christmas Floristry before the website pre-orders sold out?

If not, no need to fret! You will notice our exquisitely seasonal, & *always* local, Christmas Floristry (among many more beautifully crafted, local, artisan goods) dotted throughout St. Andrews by-the-Sea this coming week.

On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday you will be able to find an impressive spread of McGuire Chocolate Christmas Bouquets at everyone's favourite chocolate factory | McGuire Chocolate

Whether you are looking for a festive McGuire Bouquet (the PERFECT seasonal host/hostess gift), one of the coveted Signature Christmas Bouquets, or a timeless Holiday Door Knocker to adorn your own front door ... we've got you!

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27/11/2021

Did you see our Christmas Bouquets at McGuire Chocolate today? 🎄

24/11/2021

Christmas Bouquets! Available to pre-order via our website @ www.peonyandpear.ca 🕯

28/04/2021

We are so looking forward to seeing you (safely smiling behind masks at the proper six foot distancing) this Saturday at the St. Andrews Farmers' Market Changing Seasons Market, hosted at The Algonquin.

07/03/2021

The newest helper in our Spring greenhouse. Welcome Miss Jordan!

13/02/2021

SOLD OUT!!! BOUQUET OF THE MONTH CLUB 2021

This morning we invited new members to join us for a full season of fine floristry, via our Bouquet Of The Month Club. Our newsletter-crew got an email one week ago with the *exact* date and time that memberships would become available, as a thank-you for following along with us. We doubled our memberships this year, and in only five minutes, had just two spots left.
..wow!

We are astounded. To the handfuls of you who set alarms and timers (special mention to the new BOMCLub member who shared with us that your whole household had a countdown to sign ups going live) THANK YOU. I cannot express how your support impacts our farm, particularly this time of year... though rest assured I will continue to try to express our gratitude, every time you receive a Bouquet Of The Month Club email from me, for the next 9 months.

www.peonyandpear.ca

11/12/2020

in case you missed it:

04/12/2020

Fredericton, Saint John, Sussex: time to get your Christmas Floristry orders in! Deadline is 11:59PM TONIGHT⏳

28/11/2020

SUSSEX, FREDERICTON, & SAINT JOHN :
We are adding Christmas Floristry availability (yes! for delivery!) to your areas -
Andrew and I are busy as elves behind the scenes today and tomorrow chiseling out the user-friendliness of our online store so that placing your bouquet, door knocker, and wreath orders from a far is smooth like butter. The very moment that the shop is stocked with our signature, LOCAL Christmas Bouquets (these are absolute showstoppers this year - check out our last post!), and nostalgic Christmas Door Knockers - our newsletter subscribers will get the link to shop and register for delivery. So, if you aren't signed up yet... you know what to do!

(oh, and tell all of your friends! 🎅🎄✨☃️🎺)

25/11/2020

a repost from our Instagram:

🥁📯 "You'd better watch out, you'd better not cry, you'd better not pout I'm telling you why... [Christmas Bouquets are coming to on Fridaaaay]!"
- a Christmas remix, by Elizabeth.

Don't forget to set your alarms for 's this Friday! Can you help us spread the word? We will be stocking everyone's favourite chocolate shop with our very first Christmas Bouquets of the season - and we don't want anyone to miss out! ☕🍫

23/11/2020

Happy Monday!

Our Christmas Floristry Collection is up! You can place your wreath order (our simply browse our 2020 offerings) on our website 🎄 || 📯 NOTE: This season we are offering a *contactless drop* delivery option for our festive friends in Saint John, Fredericton, and Sussex.

www.peonyandpear.ca

20/11/2020

🎄🥁🕊

Are you ready to Deck the Halls with LOCAL floristry? We are! 🕊 So, without further adieu, here is the complete list of when and where you can find Christmas Floristry this holiday season:

16/10/2020

Hi Everyone! Just a reminder that we will be at the St. Andrews Farmers' Market tomorrow for this year's Indulge Market! We will have an *exceptionally limited* number of fresh Autumnal bouquets as well as a sampling of our 2020 Everlasting Wreath collection (sneak peek, below!) 🍃🍂

The weather is going to be blustery seaside, but we will be bundled up, smiling, and sipping coffees - hope to see you there!

30/09/2020

a soft moment from this week, before the rain and wind.
This is Autumn🍂🍃

04/09/2020

a little video snippet from a couple of days ago... We hope that Autumn has found you and yours warm and well 🍂

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Caption from our Instagram grid: 'Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the the first September was crisp and golden as an apple' (👈🏻⚡️real talk. Elizabeth firmly believes that this is one of JK Rowling's most underappreciated, all the while hard hitting and relatable lines of all seven Harry Potter books.) // September has found her way to our farm. Quite similarly to how it was described above, actually. Now, much like our field and crops, we are letting out a little exhale. Welcome back, Autumn!

22/08/2020

a quiet moment from this morning, sometime after the cat tore the (only three days new) screen off of our window and escaped the confines of our little farm house. Then returned to gloat about her adventures.

19/08/2020

Tomorrow's TWO market bouquet offerings are in the cooler and ready for you, St. Andrews Farmers' Market ! Andrew and I will be dishing up a limited number of 'lemon meringue' and 'bumble berry' designs, all built fresh from this morning's harvest.
Which bouquet pie would you choose? Tell us in the comments 👇🏻

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12/08/2020

a four-photo synopsis (re: highlight reel) of the past week or so.

If you are one of our St. Andrews Farmers' Market customers, we want to take a brief moment to let you know that we will not be at the market tomorrow. We hummm-ed and haaaa-ed about this for the better part of three days before facing the reality that our field and crops need some intensive, and immediate, TLC to continue producing well into the Autumn. If we don't invest the time into this right now - we won't have crops we have been counting on to keep your homes filled with flora straight through until Christmas.

So, Thursday morning while Andrew and I are nursing our dry fields back to life and affectionately encouraging various crops through their pest infestations (namely snapdragons and dahlias overcome by stink bugs and tarnish plant bugs) - we want you to head right over to our friends at Bantry Bay Farm and fill your arms with Mike and Liana's beautiful bouquets and flower bunches!

You will be able to find our bouquets again this Saturday morning at McGuire Chocolate and we will see you all again, next week, at the Market!

30/07/2020

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27/07/2020

a series of snapshots to serve as a bit of a 'recap' from the past week or so.

We have had so many projects on the go here at the farm and it's been a whirlwind. A quick summary of our gratitude: if you have been on the receiving end of one of our emails gone array, thank you for your patience! If you have been one of the customers keeping us busy, busy, busy in the fields harvesting and in the cooler designing, thank you for your endless and generous support! If you are one of our brides celebrating a wedding currently, or on the very near horizon, thank you for taking the leap into exclusively local wedding flora. It is a whole new World of beauty and magic and we are honoured to be the ones to bring it to life for you. If you are one of our family members or friends who has checked in and reminded us to eat, rest, breathe, wash our hair, etc., you keep our tired bodies afloat and we straight up love you.

Currently on the farm we are:

- bringing together a whack of weddings in the next handful of days. (We are absolutely, 100% grateful for the local brides who have booked with us for this season, after the Covid-19 pandemic took its toll on our first (fully booked) calendar of 2020 wedding floristry happenings.)

- continuing to turn over high tunnel beds and transplanting heat lovers indoors for earlier dried crops.

- talking ourselves out of getting more ducks (this is a daily task), while maintaining and loving our current 17 piece flock, pollinating bee hive, and two happy, happy pigs (affectionately referred to as 'wigglinnis' on the farm. You say that like you would say a type of pasta. Wig-leen-eee).

- harvesting, conditioning, and designing for lots and lots of Market, McGuire Chocolate, and special order bouquets.

- seeding the crops for our Winter and Christmas bouquets

- loading and unloading the new dishwasher (with more affection for that appliance than you can imagine. I guarantee it.)

- amending beds, planning and tackling the prep work of field expansion, running irrigation, and working through the site selection of one (?), two (?), three (if Elizabeth gets her way?), high tunnels and covered growing spaces for the not so distant future.

It's a lot. Yes, we are very tired, but our hearts are so full. Always a pleasure to catch up with you all!

'Ta for now,

Elizabeth

20/07/2020

Also, yesterday's bridal bouquet.

'Not posing as a blushing bride this week - you'll have to settle for the 'real life, tired, florist with a serious Bellatrix Lestrange (post 14 years in Azkaban) hair tangle' look...

but, don't these just make your heart swooooon?'

20/07/2020

'a flushing love letter' // brought to you by our , arranged by Elizabeth in a gorgeous stoneware vessel (which was curated for us by the one and only ). Inspired by the magic that was .co 's birlliant series. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, made possible (wholeheartedly) with the creative encouragement and camera guidance of (and caffeine).

It really does take a village.