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Blossoming Bough Flowers

Name: Blossoming Bough Flowers
Address: 188 Bifrost Way, Craftsbury Common, VT, 05827, US
Telephone: +18022380416
Price range: $$$
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Romantic - Botanical - Elegant - Wild: year-round floral design for your event + ecologically grown seasonal flowers from my gardens in northern Vermont.
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Tucked away in the woods of beautiful Craftsbury Common, we offer floral design for all occasions-- our specialty is in romantic, lush, botanically inspired florals for events. We also offer local delivery of bouquets created from flowers and greens grown right here, and sell small bouquets at local stores in season. As a micro flower farm on 1/8 acre, we cram the growing space with beautiful, ele

gant, often fragrant blooms like sweet peas, Iceland poppies, foxgloves, cosmos, and whatever else will grow well here. Currently we are trialing tons of new varieties of annual and perennial flowers, plus a selection of hardy, scented roses, planning for larger plantings of perennials and roses in the future. Also on trial this year are over a dozen varieties of specialty dahlias. Our growing practices are clean, ecologically conscious, and sustainable, focusing on soil health first since that is where the healthiest, longest-lasting and most beautiful flowers begin. Although not certified organic, we use only organic methods in growing our flowers. We also love to support other local flower farmers-- so our arrangements will always be mostly made up of locally grown and foraged materials. If you are interested in purchasing a bouquet for your next party, talking over floral design for your wedding, or bringing our bouquets into your store, please get in touch via Facebook message or email. Looking forward to hearing from you!
~Eva

07/08/2024

The first bloom from a ‘Petite Florets’ dahlia seedling from the $18 packet of seeds I could not resist! Shaping up to be a very pretty flower form, in a nice slightly muted warm rose.

The few seedlings from seeds I collected have buds on them now (except for the one I was most excited about which is a weirdly fasciated plant now). If the f*%!ng woodchucks don’t eat them, I can’t wait to see what the rest of the dahlia seedlings have to offer!

06/18/2024

From a frost the night of June 16 (it damaged my precious rare unicorn dahlia cuttings I JUST transplanted the day before! And almost all my beautiful tomato plants and squash plants) to a heat index of 100 degrees F for 3 days. I watered them all with fish fertilizer yesterday and need to do the same today. So worried they won’t make it. One of those times when I wonder, why am I doing this? I’m not set up to sell flowers this year as there’s too much competition at the local stores for bouquets and my quantities til dahlia season are small and I failed to market the pile of gorgeous peonies enough so they are mostly blooming on the plants.

06/13/2024

The coral peonies are blooming! I hadn’t arranged to sell them to anyone so they are in my garden to enjoy. My daughter LOVES flowers and when she sees a flower, goes and grabs it and either pulls it off the stem or pulls it to pieces. Glad I’m not trying to sell any of these as she gets such enjoyment from pulling apart the bright pink buds of these flowers when I allow it!

The more double blooms seen here are ‘Coral Sunset’ which I think is a superior variety to the well known ‘Coral Charm’ as they have more petals and last a bit longer.

That being said, I AM trying to find a market for the white and blush varieties still to bloom. There should be several dozen Duchesse de Nemours and possibly Festiva Maxima stems available in the next week or so.

The delightful single Krinkled White peonies are opening (they deserve their own post, they are so stunning) and I need to get on it planning a mini photoshoot with the delightful to feature the peonies in an attainable, microwedding-style artistic presentation.

06/04/2024

Farming after the babe goes to bed. This is an extremely rare occurrence— usually she’s up til 8:30 or 9 and there’s no chance of me getting outside before dark even at this time of year. Today was really different and really hard and this half hour of dahlia planting before dark made me feel so much better. I have around 325 dahlias to go still and it’s stressing me out with these days that are too hot for a small child to be out in the sun for more than an hour or so… luckily tomorrow my husband can take a half day off and look after her while I swelteringly plant as many as I can!

I’ve been thinking often lately as I garden— why am I doing this? Why bother? Why this and not keeping the house clean and cooking abundant meals? I guess the main answer is, gardening keeps me sane and it’s been a couple seasons of barely gardening while going through the most radical changes in life possible (pregnancy and having a first child). I go a little more nuts every day of nice weather I can’t work outside, so for now the house is a mess and we are eating very simply. Choices…

05/24/2024

Well, it’s dahlia planting time! That means that a small restock of $4-$8 tubers is live!! Wondering how to plant them? Read on for details:

Prepare a garden bed with a modest amount of compost (I just sprinkle about 1/2” of compost on the soil surface as I mostly practice no till gardening, unless I have to excavate w**d rhizomes which is most of what I’m spending my free time doing lately).

Dahlias should be planted 4-6” deep. Place tubers in the ground HORIZONTALLY. I space them 12” apart in a staggered arrangement in 3-4” wide beds. Closer than 12” doesn’t give these huge plants much room.

Avoid watering til you see sprouts. If it rains that’s ok, just heavy intentional watering can be problematic for them.

Use slug/snail bait and/or diatomaceous earth around the shoots as slugs and snails voraciously eat them as soon as the shoots emerge. I have noticed that this is worse when mulch is present right when the tubers are planted. I’ve also noticed that once a plant has been chewed on, the slimy munchers keep returning to that plant more frequently.

This year I may not entirely follow my own advice as time in the garden is hard to come by. I will probably be applying paper mulch before planting and planting them through holes in the paper as my garden w**d pressure is extremely high this year due to motherhood related neglect!

Will share more growing tips soon!

05/04/2024

Sometimes an arrangement of a single type of flower is perfectly satisfying. Over the years as a floral designer, I’ve gone from my beginnings using only a few favorites (as a pr***en enjoying hydrangeas and irises and wild steeplebush and pearly everlasting) to my early days as a professional designer using TONS of different blooms and textures in one arrangement, to where I have come to, enjoying more minimal selections for their simplicity, ease of designing with, and especially the extra enjoyment we get out of each element from a design created with fewer types of botanicals. This tends to be a good way to highlight special seasonal blooms and foliages too.

This is about as minimalist as I feel comfortable going. Seen here is Dahlia ‘Janz Choice,’ a beautiful and little known variety in peachy coral and a soft creamy white to palest blush. It’s one I got years ago from and I find it highly productive of blooms and tubers. It’s not super popular I think because it’s a bicolor and not well known but I love it. This year a lot of the tubers got given away as freebies in tuber orders since I don’t want to compost them. Dahlia shop is still open til May 10!

05/01/2024

Dahlia tuber customers— please check your email for shipping notifications. If you don’t have one, your order is most likely going out in the next few days. I’m home full time with my toddler and have to work around her needs with extremely limited childcare so this is happening more slowly than in the past, thank you for your patience!!

04/30/2024

Pretty installation from last June for and Matt. This was supposed to be on ‘s lovely hilltop arbor but pouring rain all day had other plans… these florals were put together FAST due to multiple uses of this space where the ceremony would take place. We had to rush to create our ceremony florals here between portraits being taken and the guests arriving, but we’re awfully good at rushing and still making beautiful things happen, so it came out lovely!

The detail shots taken by an unknown but very talented young second photographer at this wedding are beautiful. Head photographer was .

04/21/2024

My cousin’s spring bouquet (a couple years ago). She’s an avid gardener too and is lucky enough to live in zone 6/7 coastal Maine… we share a fondness for the delicate blossoms of wild Shad or Amelanchier, one of the first really showy blooms of spring in New England. Her wedding date worked out perfectly for these flowering twigs to accent her luscious bouquet.

If you’re looking for wedding flowers, head to my website to explore the options for working together! Taking small to medium events via our convenient, simplified, but still personalized a la carte floral service, for 2024. For 2025, we will be taking a select number of bigger custom events again! And will also have plenty of room for smaller a la carte work.

I miss weddings! I’m looking forward to working with some discerning, local-flower-loving couples again!

04/18/2024

Still loads of these beauties (Dahlia Janz Choice) available, plus lots of other great varieties! See link in bio to shop the current generous selection. Dahlia shop will be open til May 1 and shipping has started already!

04/14/2024

Did you know we offer an a la carte wedding florals option that includes big arrangements like this?! We do! Plus lots of other fun and beautiful designs, including pocket square boutonnières, little posie/handful bouquets, and even arbor florals you can easily fasten onto a structure yourself!

Most dates this year are still open— see the detailed info on our a la carte service on our Weddings page and there’s a scheduling button right there for you to see availability!

Wedding pros, I would love it if you can share. Feeling better and better about my ability to work again now that my baby is a toddler!

04/09/2024

Pretty blushy pinky peachy dahlias. Still have a ton to share! I’m planning on keeping them up on my site until May 1 since in many dahlia growing areas we can’t plant til late May anyway and they’ll be here stored perfectly in my walk in!

$h!pping will start soon, in the next week or so. First come first served. Thanks very much to all who have chosen my regeneratively VT-grown tubers to grow in your gardens this year!

03/31/2024

Missing flowers… and designing detailed, creative, thoughtful events like this beautiful microwedding from 2021.

When my then-assistant and friend happened to have a blooming wild cherry tree fall down in her backyard. And the venue offered their blooming lily of the valley from their garden when I mentioned how hard it had been to find enough of them locally… perks of working with a venue 3 hours south! And of course, the BEST clients and my work friend, Liz and Scott, who waited a looooonnnnggg time through a planning process that took them through 3!!! different venues and a pandemic.

Thank you

And others I no longer recall…

Designs like this ARE possible with my a la carte wedding design option which is my offering this year. Most dates through the local flower season (late May-mid October) are STILL OPEN! Inquiries most welcome. 💗🤍

03/25/2024

‘Brown Sugar’ dahlia. Great cut flower and that perfect, highly desirable (at least here in VT) fall wedding color, “rusty orange.” Lots of these still in my shop waiting for gardeners who want them!

03/22/2024

A pretty cartful from a couple seasons back. Dahlias, phlox (Dulce de Leche is such an excellent variety!), lisianthus since it was a year I planted a few hundred of them…

Not sure how much of a flower garden I’ll be able to have this year but hoping for it to be a bit better than last year at least! I have several beds to w**d fully this spring for the dahlias, since I never covered up as many beds as I should have when they were out of use last year. This giant spring snowstorm plus single digit temps is not exactly welcome at this point! I’m expecting my garden time this year to be limited to short chunks based on my tot’s attention span and ability to hold off eating unsuitable things (and my patience with keeping an eye on her the whole time I’m also w**ding or planting, but split attention is pretty standard as other mamas as parents know). We’ll see how far I get. The snow can’t melt soon enough for me at this point!

03/15/2024

This year, I’m going to start some extra dahlias of a couple lovely varieties by taking cuttings. I’ve done this once before but not particularly well, though I was able to increase my stock of Brown Sugar to the level that allows me to share that variety now, by doing cuttings.

This past season, I had around 10 plants of ‘Senior’s Hope’ (the mauve/burgundy one in the first picture) and TWO plants, one of them small and weak, of the much desired ‘Kelgai Ann’ (second picture, of a flower of non-ideal form) last season. I have enough tubers of Senior’s Hope to sell a few and I believe there are still some available, but I want to actually have enough plants to potentially sell flowers to other florists this year, so am planning on doing cuttings too. It’s a heavy bloomer popular with bees, and a shorter, dark-leaved plant that would look lovely in an ornamental garden.

And— well, dahlia people know all about ‘Kelgai Ann.’ For those who haven’t encountered this dahlia before, it’s a waterlily type that, to my eye, looks much like a peony, and comes in colors from palest blush to a streaky bubblegum pink depending on environmental conditions. It’s extremely popular, rather rare, generally sells out of any tuber sale in 30 seconds, and doesn’t always make a lot of tubers. I got lucky and have 12 divisions from my 2 plants, but I want to increase stock enough this year to allow me to sell tubers next year before EVERYONE has it already! So I’m planning on doing as many cuttings from this one as I can manage.

Dahlia cuttings take a lot of indoor growing space and it’s still 2 1/2 months til my last frost. So I probably will wait another week or two to wake the tubers up for this project. It’s a good thing my other gardening endeavors are minimal this year because it means I’ll have 3 whole grow light shelves just for dahlia cuttings if I manage to get that many!

Please note that all cuttings I get will be for my own planting purposes, but I do have many tubers of beautiful varieties waiting to be claimed in my sh0p right now! See £!nk in b|0 for the current selection. 💗💗

03/12/2024

Dahlia tubers are still available in plenty! Fixed a super annoying tech quirk in my shop system that made it difficult to add more than one variety to the cart… ugh… so if you had issues with that, it’s fixed and please go ahead and order more if you wanted more. If the issue kept you from ordering what you wanted, and you get more now and need combined shipping, I will combine shipping for anyone with a first order placed before today (the 12th).

This is Nuit d’ete.

03/11/2024

There are so many still available— only one variety sold out yesterday and there are 33 other beautiful ones waiting for new homes! L!nk in B10 to snag some for yourself!

This is — pollinators love it, very productive for flowers and tubers, tubers store and divide easily. And best of all the flowers look a bit like a single peony, which I used to good effect in an October wedding last year (that’s what the boutonniere is from).

03/09/2024

Still looking for dahlia tubers? I have a ton to share! Tomorrow, March 10, noon EST! (And remember it’s daylight savings time so it will feel an hour earlier!).

Varieties pictured are all ready to go out into the world soon:

Cafe au Lait

Mix of Cafe au Lait, Cafe de Paris, Roque Starburst, Linda’s Baby, Lakeview Peach Fuzz, Janz Choice

Mix of Brown Sugar, Snoho Storm, Rip City, Totally Tangerine and a few others

Kona (my new favorite small blush dahlia to design with)

Linda’s Baby

Pink Pearl

Totally Tangerine

Citron du Cap

Rose Toscano with Brown Sugar and others in the background

And of course my fave Lakeview Peach Fuzz!

Please share with all your gardening friends!!

All grown by me here in Vermont, using regenerative/beyond organic practices. 💛🧡❤️💗🤍

03/06/2024

This is ‘Linda’s Baby’ dahlia. There will be lots of tubers available from my tiny farm soon!

Love these variety portraits I took in my studio in fall.

This one varies in color a lot. And blooms SO heavily and makes such great, plentiful tubers!

All tuber listings read “Coming Soon” right now. Will announce opening time soon!

03/02/2024

Question for dahlia lovers and growers: do you think the dahlia craze bubble is bursting this year? I’m worried it is, yet hope it is not since I enjoy growing them as a major part of my business.

Well before the dahlia growing world got rattled this past week by a popular breeder imposing unusual terms of sale for her original varieties, I was mulling over the idea of providing breeder royalties from my operation, at least for non-corporate breeders here in the US. Lakeview Dahlias comes to mind in particular because I promote my growing and sharing of their Peach Fuzz variety a great deal.

Is the bubble bursting? Do you think breeder royalties are the wave of the future in dahlia land? Would love to hear anyone’s constructive, considered thoughts!

02/28/2024

The always astonishing Dahlia ‘Lakeview Peach Fuzz.” My forever favorite.

This one is a prolific bloomer that starts early. I like the thin, sturdy stems and bushy, slightly shorter plant habit. They just get more and more prolific as the season goes on. Tubers are sturdy and easy to divide, though not super prolifically produced (which is probably a lot of the reason that this variety that popularized years ago is still among those that are harder to find.

A limited number of tubers grown by me here in northern Vermont, will be available in my tuber s a l e coming in early March! Newsletter subscribers will be the first to be notified of the opening date and time- add yourself to the list at the bottom of any page on my w e b s i t e 🤍🤍

02/26/2024

Spring flowers! This was a beautiful wedding in early June of 2021, created with almost all local flowers and greenery— poppies, stocks, ranunculus and tamarack greens picked from farms, my garden, and my own woods here in Craftsbury. Accented by roses and peonies from elsewhere (peonies come into season here in mid June normally).

Currently offering wedding work similar to this via my a la carte simplified floral ordering process! See the |ink in b i o for examples of the designs I can create for you. The designs in these photos would fit into the “Grand Bouquet,” “Grand Container Arrangement,” and “Bud Vase Trio.” Actually the bud vases for this wedding were more spare than how I prefer to design them.

Thanks to for these images.

02/24/2024

Just finished dividing the last of my ‘Rip City’ tubers. I should have clipped the stalks short when I put them in the cooler to store, but I didn’t because there wasn’t time. And it’s one of those annoying varieties that makes a ton of beautiful tubers but only half of them have eyes. But, I’ll still have a few to share in my upcoming tuber s@|e!

Today was also a breakthrough day for working in the studio with Seren— I let her wander all over the studio instead of being stuck in the playpen, where she lasts 10 minutes before having a fit and needing to come out. She happily explored the studio, mostly playing with discarded tubers and dahlia roots and dirt, for 3 whole hours!!! Of course it was new to her and she might not do that again, and my husband was there working on finishing a few carpentry things that have gone undone for a couple years. But, wow, I actually was able to work for a reasonable amount of time with her there!

Dahlia ahop opening date TBD still.

02/23/2024

WHO IS THIS DAHLIA? It was sold to me as ‘Janz Choice’ several years ago and I’ve looked for info on that variety and it seems it’s very unusual and there are almost no photos (except for my own) of it online.

As I’ve gotten more expert about dahlias, I’ve come to think it might be ‘A La Mode’ mislabeled. Or, is it a misspelling or half translation of a Dutch variety name? What do you think?

02/05/2024

Well, it’s here! A LA CARTE WEDDING FLORALS are live!!

Took a month longer than I had hoped to get all the information written, photos gathered, the display/info page up, and the scheduling form complete, but it’s all there now and it’s ready for some wedding planning love!

This is a fantastic choice if you:

-Want all local, seasonal flowers which vary according to season, sometimes even from week to week!
-Are not picky about what varieties of flowers you get in your designs
-Love our signature wild, whimsical design style
-Are super excited about allowing us complete creative freedom
-Have friends/family who are totally down for setting out all your flowers to be helpful!

Basically you have a look through the display/info page, choose the designs you want, read the FAQ etc., then head to the scheduling page to check your date’s availability and fill out a form to tell me what colors you want, where the florals need to be dropped off on the morning of the wedding, how many of which design choices you want, and a few other details.

Once I receive the form from you, I’ll look it over and email you with a thank you and to clarify anything if needed. And I’ll create an invoice for everything, send it to you within a few days of your submitting the form, and once that’s paid, we’re booked!

Hopefully more than 10 people see this post bc this is my main offering for wedding florals at the moment and I honestly need some work for this summer! Head to the l i n k in b i o to have a look around and pick out your designs.

Thanks for reading & sharing. 💜💚

01/22/2024

I loved this modest, more slender and wild take on an arbor corner we did last year. All local aside from the little roses (White Majolika, hard to resist especially in fall as they are particularly beautiful at that time of year— from spring conditions in South America where these are grown).

I’m using this design as an example of what my premade arbor corner sprays for my a la carte wedding floral offering will look like. Materials vary vastly with the season, from week to week, but the size and style will be similar to this one (and colors customized to your request as closely as possible with locally sourced materials).

The a la carte page is almost ready except there’s no FAQ… I don’t really have enough long chunks of time to think through what the FAQ should be. Head to my stories to contribute to a list of what the FAQ page needs to include! Thanks!

01/20/2024

Here’s a handful of Dahlia ‘Senior’s Hope’ that shows the color and size variation they can have. The plants are around 2-3 ft. tall, with dark foliage and stems. Flowers are borne on quite long, leafless stems that make up the top foot or more of the plants’ height.

My friend had some funny comments about the variety name that made me laugh back when we still worked together. She lives & works on massive events in NYC now and darn, do I miss her!

01/19/2024

This is Dahlia ‘Senior’s Hope.’ It really is these colors. Got to use my “photo corner” in my new studio a good deal this fall for new, consistent “headshots” of many of the dahlia varieties I grow and am planning to have on offer starting in early March. Not even halfway through dividing them…

I don’t know where this one’s name inspiration comes from. I assume it may refer to a high school or college senior as any other reference seems strangely cynical?

01/11/2024

Dug up some of the beautiful branding photos took of me and the flowers in summer 2020. From now on, this account will go back to being exclusively flower, wedding, and farming content. Those of you who want to or have done business with me will most likely really appreciate this— no more jumble of flower stuff plus motherhood stuff that is most likely not so interesting to engaged couples! Since I will still be doing wedding flowers (this year mostly a la carte service rather than the labor and time intensive full custom service I’ve done most of the last few years) it makes sense to me to present what my potential customers might want to see, and divide off my correspondence with friends, homesteading/nutrition/food/mental health content, and personal sharing of our home life off into another (private!) account. It can be found at

I think this will also motivate me to do a bit more work on my business generally; I’ve been in a huge slump with even attempting to work as my almost 11-month-old child has been going through a clingy stage and the holidays are always a massive time commitment here. But, I realized I CAN work on the computer in short-ish increments with her playing around on the floor nearby. And somehow I’m going to get through dividing all the dahlias before early March when the $h0p will open for fellow dahlia lovers.

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188 Bifrost Way
Craftsbury Common, VT
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Chickies are here to remind you that yes, I am a wedding florist and that's how you all see me most of the time. But the flowers I use mostly come from my own 1/2 acre farm. That has to be FARMED, mostly by me. The months of April and May are almost exclusively focused on farming here, otherwise there wouldn't be flowers from here for weddings later. Office work like proposals and proposal revisions take second place to planting out of necessity in those spring months. That being said, proposals are really important overall (of course!) and will get worked on during the spring months- but they will take longer than normal to complete because design documents can wait (for booked weddings that are happening in summer/fall), while the weather, the garden, and the plants won't wait at all. This is something I would so appreciate that all of you I'm working with, could keep in mind during the next couple months and when scheduling meetings about proposal updates. It's part of the deal and makes your flowers exponentially more amazing when the day comes! 🤍🤍

Pretty mid-September arbor at @turningstonefarm … mostly local flowers, vines from Texas (smilax; did you know that native VT plants almost all wilt out of water and so cannot be used for these popular styles of suspended, festooned, grand greenery installations?). #vtfloraldesigner #caspianlake #greensborovt #greensborovtwedding #lakecaspian #localflorist #craftsburyvtflorist #craftsburyvt

A bouquet for a forest-loving bride who requested a not-huge creation in white, blush, and shades of muted blue. To which I added my unbelievably happy peach lisianthus and 2 stems of total surprise blue columbine that decided to bloom at a unusual time of year! (Columbine is a late spring flower that I’ve rarely seen rebloom before). A few more photos of the fantastic reception space at @turningstonefarm in stories! #vermontflowers #localflowers #seasonalfloristry #vt #northeastkingdomvt #greensborovtwedding #caspianlake #lakecaspian #blossomingboughflowers

C’s big, luscious bouquet from last Sunday. Full of summer goodies! Many local, a few from afar. Today, we’re delivering another wedding, and then we have a week off before a whirlwind 7-week stretch of fall weddings all in a stream week after week! My week off may not be as restful as I need it to be… Monday we are having more concrete come in a truck and we’re making the slab in the addition ourselves. Then it’s a couple days of consultations and office work. And then I think I’m unplugging starting on Thursday to get some gardening done and to actually rest! FYI if you inquire with us about 2022 now, wait times from consultation to first quote are going to continue to be a month+ long until the end of October. We will be much more able to communicate in detail starting in the 2nd half of November into December so if you can wait that long to find your florist, that will bring you more immediate and detailed info from us! ❤️ #weddingflorist #bridalbouquet #summerflowers #vermontwedding @casstle82

I’m on a semi-vacation right now! Staying home and working today & tomorrow on emails & calls & maybe even a flower proposal if I have time. This weekend I don’t have any events so Walker and I are taking the rare opportunity to rest, get some gardening for ourselves done, and go to the @vermontvaudeville show tomorrow! I’m mostly unplugged so don’t be surprised if it takes me a while to return emails, calls, etc. And I actually CLEANED my HOUSE!! Having a construction project out your front door makes for a quickly dirtied house even if you have time to sweep regularly… It’s looking like our yard will be a ditch and a dirt mountain for another week… it’s been raining so much our excavator guy isn’t coming this week as far as we know. But the extra time to think about where to put the big rocks in the yard is helpful and Elye and I are planning on looking at some photos of the beautifully landscaped @coastalmainebotanicalgardens for inspiration before our yard gets put together again in its new form. I do need to have nice gardens here around the house… thinking herb garden, partly! I’m likely to be pretty quiet on here, on email, and by text/phone until next week. See you later, everyone! #lavenderbouquet #bridalbouquet #vermontflorist

Congratulations, S & R!!! I hope you had an amazing wedding and party yesterday. 💕 S. first inquired sometime in late 2019 about her June 2020 wedding. First the plan was for them to come to my house/studio to pick up a few bouquets and little vases of flowers… but it evolved! I ended up making bouquets, boutonnières/other small wearable flower creations, compote arrangements for each dinner table, and renting the round arbor & decorating it on site. S and her sister created small jam jar arrangements from her sister’s garden flowers, plus 2 big arrangements for the aisle. It’s actually quite unusual for me to partner so extensively with a flower-doing bride and family on all the creations, but I saw a fellow gardener in this sweet, lovely bride— and at this point we’ve been trading gardening tips for 2 years! It worked out so beautifully! Vendor team: Venue & bar service: @1824house Photographer (eager to see these!): @hannahphotography_vt Planning & coordination: @lindslovesevents Florals: #blossomingboughflowers Food: @sugarsnapvt Makeup/hair artistry: @finishingtouchvt Rentals: @linenshopvt Music: @djrome802 More pretty photos to come! I better get going to pick up my rentals now!! #vtflorist #weddinginspiration #shirleypoppy #vermontflowers #slowfloralstyle #slowflowers #ayearinflowers #vtwedding

Saturday’s arbor, in a hollow in the woods in central Vermont on the family’s private airstrip! Loved creating this whole design and bringing this wedding to life at last with @harlowdahliaevents ! Making the ceremony installation is my favorite part— it’s moving, breathing art on a large scale. This was created with mostly local blooms— ranunculus and some other things from my garden, and peonies (the perfect, very particular color) and the rest from @moreyhillfarm. Many, many congratulations, A & J!! #vtwedding #ceremonyflowers #roundweddingarch #circularweddingarch #moongatearbor #ceremonyflorals #ceremonyflowerideas #weddingflowerideas #vermontflorist #vtflorist #stowevtflorist #blossomingboughflowers

L’s bridal bouquet from May. Finally this week our local peonies are in season and I get to put them in O.’s bouquet and all over her wedding florals at @topnotchresort for this Saturday! #weddingflowers #vermontweddingflorist #bridal #bridalbouquet #vtbride #vermontbride #2021wedding #pastelwedding #blossomingboughflowers #iwvt #innatweathersfield

Unbelievable first few ranunculus from my garden! These are from @floretflower ‘s ranunculus selection, except for that astonishing pale blushy peach one which is an @italian_ranunculus. In this high heat, I’m harvesting these and peonies twice (or more often depending on other demands on my time) a day and stashing them in the cooler for future weddings! No weddings this weekend means that this is a big catch-up week for warm-season annual flower planting, trying to get the 4 early-mid July wedding final plans done, and digging up part of one of my ornamental gardens by the house because we’re told that our excavator guy will be here by Thursday or Friday to dig the hole for our addition foundation! Eeeek! #busytimes #ranunculus #flowerfarming #weddingflorist #vermont

Beautiful ceremony arrangements for H & M’s wedding at @basinharborweds yesterday! Thank you so much, and all the best wishes for a long and delightful marriage, you two! 💕💕💜💕💕 Blooms sourced from: my garden @blossomingbough; my neighbors @moreyhillfarm; @greenmountainfloristsupply ; @ibuyflowers #vtwedding #vtweddingflorist #vermontflorist #blossomingboughflowers #basinharborwedding #floraldesign #lakesidewedding #slowfloralstyle #vermontfloraldesigner #fineartflowers #june #junewedding #seasonalflowers @hammahjean

These bloomed in my garden yesterday. A few of the Iceland poppies I planted last year, survived the winter, and I’m amazed at how early they flower when they’ve wintered here! And these happen to be my very favorite color, too. Walker (my fantastic farm and floristry assistant who has no social media) and I are busy busy arranging table flowers, boutonnières, and bud vases for Saturday’s weddings! It feels amazing to be working again at something that’s not computer stuff! 😀 #vtflorist #vtfloraldesigner #vermontflorist #icelandpoppies #springflowers #springweddings