Wild Blossom Hollow

07/17/2024

How these didiscus love to grow in my tunnel while everything else looks like it's fighting to just stay alive, I have no idea.
* Honestly, the tunnels have been a struggle for me this year since we had to rebuild after the wind storm this winter. The over wintered snaps, delphinium, and foxglove were killed by a winter storm, but the grass see had no issue surviving! Lol
* Thank you, , for these kickass plugs once again!

07/15/2024

Sunset Yoga in the flower fields
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Tonight - Monday July 15th - CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER/FLOODED FIELDS.
Wednesday July 17th @7:30pm
* $10 per person

07/10/2024

Yoga is canceled for the evening due to a tornado touching down in Forestville. Please be safe everyone.

07/08/2024

Flowers in a jug.

07/07/2024

Sunday, Jugday! Trying to get lost in my designs and designing in this jug has enjoying these fun little summer flowers.
Designed with all the best in the fields this week
* Ghost Fern stolen from Tina's shade garden
* Fever Few
* Didiscus
* Sweet Pea Vines
* Perrenial Phlox - don't know the name lol
* Lemon Balm
* Pow Wow Echinacea

07/05/2024

CLOSED - The shop will be closed this weekend so our crew can enjoy the weekend with their family and friends. I hope you all are having a safe and wonderful holiday.

BOUQUETS WILL BE AVALIBLE FOR PAY & TAKE ALL WEEKEND WITH ALL THE FUN FLOWERS

06/30/2024

I hope you all have a wonderful Sunday.

06/26/2024

SUNSET YOGA IN THE FLOWER FIELDS IS BACK!!!!

Starting July 8th at 7:30pm.
Classes will be every Monday and Wednesday evening at 7:30 pm with my beautiful friend

06/22/2024

This weekends bouquets 💐

06/08/2024

In the shop all weekend with flowers and dirty overalls while I finish planting this seasons crop!!

05/30/2024

Beautiful Beautiful bearded Iris. She was the very first flower I fell in love with as my great grandma Pearl had them everywhere in her gardens. Every spring, my Gram and I would dig up a couple of rihzomes to then plant in front of her front porch. I would then check on and care for the currant bush out front and make sure the dog wasn't peeing on.
My daughter was named Iris Pearl after my great grandma, and after I had my third kid, I thought it was a genius idea to tattoo my whole left side with a massive bearded Iris. And no l, it didn't cover all the stretch marks or make me look 22 again, but it reminds me of my kiddos and the amazing women in my family.

05/25/2024

Shop CLOSED May 25th & 26th for the holiday. I have a couple bunches out for pay n take, but mother nature is throwing me for a loop this year, so they are mainly roses. Lol

Have a safe and wonderful holiday.

05/14/2024

I think I've finally come down off of the Mother's Day high that was this past weekend. I feel like every year, I plan, prep, and panic, but every year (even the one year I was in a tent, on the side of the driveway...in the mud & rain) you all come out and support me and my flowers. Getting to share my Mother's Day weekend with all of you is a joy that I can't express via an ig post.
Thank you for everything you all do for me and for still loving my flowers, farm, little shop, and the random things that come out of my mouth while I am trying to give a cute presentation about how to build a bouquet. This last decade, you've all watched me, my kiddos, my farm, and flowers grow...I truly wouldn't be doing this all if it wasn't for this amazing little community of flower lovers.
Now, I'm getting the roses and peonies ready for my first design class in June - Let's Martha Stewart It.
I love you all!!!!
Christy

05/08/2024

The end of tulip season and the start of perrenials, peonies, and planting of all the annuals & dahlias.
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I had a whole little post/story in my head this morning at 4 am, but I've now lost the words as the only thing I can seem to focus on is the list of Spring chores and all the preparation for Mother's Day. These things used to bring me stress and anxiety, but this year, I'm just breathing and being grateful that I didn't give up and that I get to continue playing in the dirt and sharing my flowers with you all.

05/04/2024

Good morning all! I'm just sitting here on my third cup of coffee, listening to the birds and Bonnie chat away, when it hit me that Mother's Day weekend is next weekend...so I figured I better send a little update with what's happening at WBH.

Most years I'm in hyperdrive/panic mode, but this year I'm just going to enjoy the whole weekend with all of you, my kiddos, my momma and of course the most flowers I've ever had for this weekend!! I'm so excited to design the tent for Saturdays Soiree like I would for any other large event (Ashley is probably getting sick of listening to all of my ideas), to open the shop, serve you all goodies and drinks, share my gardens and honestly to just be present.

* A Couple Notes for this weekend

The Day Before Mother's Day Soiree still has a couple seats available in each class, 11 am is almost completely sold out. For those of you that are coming, please don't wear cute shoes since we are heading out to the fields to forage and harvest tulips again this year. ;) Also, I have sides coming for the tent because it's Mother's Day, so it could rain, or a wind gust might try to take the tent like it did the first year...I get this down a little more every year lol. I want you all to just enjoy the day, so please know that you can sit in the gardens, read a book in the shop, and just enjoy your time at the Hollow however you wish.

The shop will be open Saturday and Sunday from 10 am until 4 pm, and there is no need to preorder any flowers as Ashley and I will be slinging bouquets all week. There will be Posies for $20, Small Mixed Bouquets for $45, and Medium Mixed Bouquets for $65. This way,you all don't have to worry about picking up your bouquets and can just come and pick out the ones that you want since they will all be different. There will be coffee and tea and I hope that you can just come and enjoy the day!

Ps. I'm in the shop all weekend 10 to 4 just working away :)

Photos taken by the lovely

04/27/2024

We have so many tulips. Even with the voles building their own transit system and buffet within all of the bulbs, we have been harvesting, strong, healthy, and vibrant tulips.
I can still remember my very first fall, planting tulips on the new land. It was cold, wet, muddy, and I had no idea what I was doing. So, naturally, Ben had a faster solution as the tulips just wouldn't plant well in the wet, clay soil. So he got on the 4 wheeler and made trenches with the wheels, then went the other way to cover them up with more wet gross clay. I somehow thought this was a brilliant idea! Then, in the spring of 2016, I was surprised and so distraught that my tulips all rotted in un amended soil where they were planted too late, too deep and in freaking grey, gross clay. Lol
So, I guess it's true, we do really learn from our mistakes - well, besides listening to Ben's ideas because our land is still recovering from the great trench dig that I thought was brilliant for our roses. Just don't dig trenches in clay soil, especially with four wheelers or a mini backhoe.

04/26/2024

I freaking love purple!!!

04/21/2024

Our 4th Annual The Day Before Mother's Day Soiree is here again!

I am so very excited to once again host an event for the special women in your life - your grandmother, mother, sister, best friend or yourself. This is a day that you just get to come and enjoy flowers, drinks, baked goods and each other's company.

Each participant will receive enough flowers to make a beautiful bouquet and a chance to cut a little and forage a little from my farm while also being given a mini flower farm and garden tour. I will then instruct you how to design and wrap your bouquet so that it looks like you went to the French Flower Market and picked it up yourself while we laugh, chat, eat goodies and drink flower inspired drinks.

YOUR TICKET INCLUDES:

+ Baked Goods from Sydney's Sweet Treats

+ Savories from Oh Nohm Bakery

+ Mimosas and flower inspired drinks

+ Coffee & Tea

+ Fresh Cut flowers from the fields, ribbon, kraft and tissue paper to create your bouquet.

4 TIME SLOTS ARE AVALIBLE

9:00 am - 10:30 am

11 am - 12:30 am

1 pm - 2:30 pm

3 pm - 4:30 pm

After you have finished or if you show up a bit early, the shop will be open for you to peruse where any guest who attends the workshop will also receive 10% off in the shop that day.

This event is so much fun and I truly love spending my Mother's Day with you all and I can't wait to flower with you all again.

www.wildblossomhollow.com/events

04/14/2024

I have flowers!!! I'll be in the shop until 4 today, but if you can make it they will be out this week for pay and take. Have a wonderful Sunday

04/11/2024

Daffodils have always been one of my favorite flowers, and as a kid, I used to walk through the woods to my grandma's and stop and pick her handfuls of wild daffodils along my route. This past Easter, the kids and I took a walk through the same woods to my grandma's, and I still picked her a handful of wild daffodils and maybe a small handful of some from the front of her house. My brother saw this happening and ran into the house like he was 8 again and freaking told on me for stealing grandma's front yard flowers. She then proceeded to scold me for stealing her flowers while simultaneously asking me if I wanted a pop from the shed fridge.
My gram is going to be 88 this year, and I'm so glad that I still get to wave to her every Wednesday when she drives by to get her hair done, to sit with her at my kids games and to continue to drive her crazy like I always have. 💗

04/07/2024

Happy Sunday! I'll be in the shop from 10 to 4 today, making bouquets with some of the first ranunculus from the team and sweet daffodils from as our flowers are still slowly popping up.

04/05/2024

Wild Blossom Hollow

I woke up this morning after a night filled with dreaded insomnia that loves to creep its way into my nights when I'm feeling, well anything and everything. Lately it's been feelings of irrelevances, wondering if my community still wants my flowers, my little shop. messy gardens and semi decent coffee. Will the bits of me that used to make everyone happy still be able to hold up in today's world or are we all consumed by the happenings of the world around us? I'm left wondering if my quaint quite part of the world is enough to still bring joy?

Then I start to wonder if maybe it's the complete opposite and the perfect, quirky little spot where you get to just come and be you. Just a place that now has a bookstore - well more like a bookshelf filled with books, but I like to imagine what could be! A new spruced up coffee station where I can even make you a latte - still not super fancy, but they taste pretty freaking good. Shelves that will be filled with new and unique local artist as well as some of the staple artist I've had in the shop since the beginning. So many more flowers because finally after a decade I kind of know how to grow them even when Mother Nature throws me all the curveballs. And of course, all the gardens for you to walk through, sit and conversate in and just enjoy!

I truly want to bring this vision to life that I've been working on the past couple years - moving. planting and building gardens have taking me a bit longer than I anticipated, but I hope it's worth the wait come summer. This also means that I am currently working on getting all of my classes listed for the year, including Mother's Day and will have everything up and running by next week, so watch your inbox to be the first to get all the details. :)

Lastly, for the entire month of April everything (except fresh flowers and most books) will be 35% off. I am so ready for a little revamp but want to make a little room in the shop first. So if you're out and about this weekend please stop in, have some coffee, read a book, sit on the yellow couch and say hello because I truly miss all of your faces.

xo,
Christy

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03/19/2024

I'm not gonna lie, I'm freaking loving this snow and cold. February was too warm, and the flowers were waking up thinking it was spring with their wobbly heads and steams that were non-existent. I'm happy to see their growth slow a little as they settle back in for some colder days, gaining strength and stem length.
Bonnie is exceptionally happy to see the snow back and is refusing to come inside even for her dinner.
Enjoy this year's Spring Equinox in a cozy blanket with a hot cup of tea.

03/11/2024

While slowly coming out of my winter hibernation, I started dreaming again. Dreaming about how I wanted to challenge myself as a grower of flowers and vegetables, of land that is thriving with easier ways of mulching, and gardens that bring myself and others pure joy. The dreams come in waves, and I find myself reading books and listening to audiobooks vs looking on Pinterest. There is a desire in me to be my true self and to create a space full of flowers, dandelion filled grass for yoga, tunnels that are less structured and more mini gardens, and even a fenced in garden for kids to play in dirt and explore all that's growing. 

It has been amazing and exhausting being all the people I had in my head that I had to be to be successful, and 2023 ended up breaking me. My spirit, my body, and my mind just broke into tiny little pieces that have taken me months to put back together. I truly didn't know if I would be back in the flowers or back to designing. The thought of working with my hands and being creative was so much that I made myself physically ill.

These past several months I shut off social media, became gluten & dairy free and finally got on the correct vitamins and medicine for my thyroid, I started seeing an acupuncturist, walking the dogs several miles every day with Ben, lifting weights and spinning with all while working with my amazing trainer . It was either I started to heal myself or I was going to give up on everything, including my dreams. 

The feeling of slowly walking through mud every single day started to become unbearable, and I knew something needed to change, and in December, that change was going to be closing WBH. I truly didn't think I had it in me to continue to bring all of you the flowers, the designs, or even the bits of me that kept you all coming back. The truth is that I love these flowers and the people they've connected me with way too much to just throw them away because I overworked myself. So, while I needed changing and my dreams needed changing, I realized that giving up wasn't going to change either of those things. 

2024 is truly going to be different because I'm different 🤍

03/11/2024

I started dreaming again...

While slowly coming out of my winter hibernation, I started dreaming again. Dreaming about how I wanted to challenge myself as a grower of flowers and vegetables, of land that is thriving with easier ways of mulching, and gardens that bring myself and others pure joy. The dreams come in waves, and I find myself reading books and listening to audiobooks vs looking on Pinterest. There is a desire in me to be my true self and to create a space full of flowers, dandelion filled grass for yoga, tunnels that are less structured and more mini gardens, and even a fenced in garden for kids to play in dirt and explore all that's growing.

It has been amazing and exhausting being all the people I had in my head that I had to be to be successful, and 2023 ended up breaking me. My spirit, my body and my mind just broke into tiny little pieces that have taken me months to put back together. I truly didn't know if I would be back in the flowers or back to designing. The thought of working with my hands and being creative was so much that I made myself physically ill.

These past several months I shut off social media, became gluten & dairy free and finally got on the correct vitamins and medicine for my thyroid, I started seeing an acupuncturist, walking the dogs several miles every day with Ben, lifting weights and spinning with Tunde all while working with my amazing trainer. It was either I started to heal myself or I was going to give up on everything, including my dreams.

The feeling of slowly walking through mud every single day started to become unbearable and I knew something needed to change, and in December - that change was going to be closing WBH. I truly didn't think I had it in me to continue to bring all of you the flowers, the designs or even the bits of me that kept you all coming back. The truth is that I love these flowers and the people they've connected me with way too much to just throw them away because I overworked myself. So, while I needed changing and my dreams needed changing, I realized that giving up wasn't going to change either of those things.

2024 is truly going to be different because I'm different. This space is a safe space that I've been working so hard to create in a way that makes me and everyone that walks through it truly happy. It's messy, there's no rhyme or reason to where flowers are planted, there's lovely worms, chickens, compost and a Newfie that will gladly greet you with a slobbery kiss. The gardens will be shared with you all this year in a way that I've been dreaming of for so long, and that I'm so freaking excited about!

This year will officially start on April 6th when I open the shop for the first weekend of the year! Shop hours will stay the same - Every Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 4pm, with flowers out for pay and take every single day from sunup to sundown. I am updating my website with new bouquet options (including a delivery option) and affordable monthly flower classes as well as affordable flower subscriptions. Yoga will start as soon as the ground isn't pure mud and Ann Marie is ready to go. Weekly or Biweekly guided "you cut sessions" might be a thing (feel free to comment on what you think), and for the entire month of April EVERYTHING in the shop will be 35% off! Don't worry, I'm not closing the shop, I just want to move out past inventory and make room to bring in some new artists & products.

If you have any flowers you wish to see in the fields, purchase in the shop, or events that you would love me to host, then please send me an email as I really want this season to be fun and full of flowers, laughter and friends.

Love,
Christy

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12/22/2023

My winter wish to you!

I've been writing this email in my head for what seems like weeks now, not knowing if the right words of gratitude will form as properly on the computer screen as they do in my mind.

I chose to share some incredibly vulnerable moments of my life and a point in my life this summer where I was struggling mentally and emotionally. I was at a low that I was unsure how to process, as here I am with this incredible little business that was having one of the best years yet! A year filled with incredibly glamorous weddings, Buffalo Bills events, restaurant designs and classes that were completely filled with amazing people as well as so much laughter and love.

Here I am, the secret little flower shop in the middle of the littlest town, working for some of the most well-known people in WNY, yet I couldn't find the light at the end of the tunnel I have been building for myself since I was little. This tunnel that had me making people happy, one filled with laughter and now flowers. I love that I get to share my dreams with all of you and that somehow, even when I'm struggling or feeling like I'm failing - you all still choose to support me and this dream. The thing that makes me choke up the most is that you don't have to buy my flowers, stop in my shop, support my words, my dreams or share who I am and what I do with your family and friends - but you all choose to do that. How can I ever truly express my gratitude for the people that continue to support and love me so much that it allows me to keep growing this little dream of mine.

I can't wait to bring more flowers and flower filled spaces for all of you in our community to come to. 2024 will be filled with monthly design classes, guided you-picks, finally a little sitting garden by the shop and a year full of love, laughter, flowers and of course gratitude for you all.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for continuing to support
Wild Blossom Hollow - I love all of you so very much,

The shop will be closed until March of 2024, but if anyone ever needs anything you can always call or message me. :)

Have a wonderful holiday season and Happy New Year!!

Love, Christy

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12/06/2023

It's snowing, and I'm so excited to be making wreaths with whole dried limes in them while sipping on lukewarm coffee.
Have a wonderful day everyone.

12/01/2023

My little flower shop, oh how I adore you and how much you've grown these past 4 years.
I just really love how the little shop looks this time of year, all full of pretty evergreens, winterberry, and a wall full of wreaths that need to be on people's doors before I continue naming them all and given them back stories. Lol.
Please tag some of your favorite little shops because I love following and supporting other little shops.
Thank you! 💙

11/30/2023

Just a cute little wreath I named Janet, and I love her!

11/26/2023

Gah, I still can't believe that I continue to have such amazing customers who come year after year for wreath, classes, to shop and purchase flowers. Thank you for your endless love and support (especially when the teens that I made are running the shop during classes ;) I love you all and love that I get to continue to create this cool little space in the middle of nowhere.
Can't wait to see some of you today and next weekend.
Have a wonderful Sunday before the first snow ❄️