Ed's Garden Shed

08/27/2024

This beauty deserves a post all to itself. Love these fresh from the field, late summer bouquets like no others!

Cosmos White Cupcake & Double Click Rose
Veronica White Skyler
Aster Salmon Janina
Dahlia ‘Yvonne’, ‘Jowey Chantal’ and unknown variety
Gomphrena Audrey White
Bee Balm Spotted

08/18/2024

As a flower farmers, we can’t help but admire and analyze fresh bouquets at various businesses when we’re out and about. We LOVE seeing local flowers this time of year at local shops.

After touring this morning, a latte and blueberry carrot muffin was as refreshing as this locally cultivated bouquet at on Michigan Ave. We love how they used current bloomers: amaranthus, cornflower and ammi. These beauties won’t be gracing us with their presence in a couple months’ time.

Can you spot the amaranthus in some of our recent arrangements (pics 2 & 3)? We are growing three varieties this season: ‘Hot Biscuits’, ‘Opopeo’, and ‘Coral Fountains’ and I still can’t decide which is my favorite!

07/20/2024

It doesn’t get much more flower fabulous than this 😍 Stop by the garden shed for bouquets tomorrow (Saturday) anytime after 9:30. We’ll be making them fresh in the morning and would love to share the beauty with you.

07/03/2024

This week’s market bouquets look like what I imagine one could pick on a gorgeous summer day, wandering through my imaginary meadow. But in reality, these flowers just don’t pop up in a meadow, all together, in these cultivars that will last in a vase to share their glory. They take serious planning, care and cultivation!

With no market this week due to the holiday, if you aren’t a subscriber, you are in luck because we have several extra bouquets waiting for you in the shed - Ed’s Garden Shed - at the farm in Hartland. Pick one up between 8:30 - 5:00 Thursday-Saturday… or until they last. DM for the farm address.

From the Meadow: Campanula, Chantilly Snapdragons, Spotted Bee Balm, Ammi, Love-in-a-Mist, Yarrow, Baptisia, Bupleurem, Stock, Feverfew and a few others

06/10/2024

Lots of gorgeous bouquets have gone out our doors the last 2 weeks for the first of our monthly & biweekly subscriptions! It always feels so special to start the rhythm and see both familiar & new faces lit up with the joy of these luscious spring blooms.

Wondering how to get our flowers in your hands this summer, whether it’s for a single bouquet or a special event? DM us or text 808.291.5335 anytime with a request, we’d love to share the beauty with you!

04/12/2024

ATTN: FREE FLOWERS 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Purchase any 2024 flower subscription in the next 5 days and we have a free spring bouquet of sunshine for you (i.e. Specialty narcissi, see pics above 😍).

Valid April 11-17 on any subscription purchased on EdsGardenShedMI.com. Free bouquet ($15-20 value) to be picked up in Canton or Hartland between April 13-20. Look for an email after purchase for bouquet pickup details.

Visit our website for subscription details - link in bio!

04/10/2024

Harvested today… daffodils & hellebores, welcoming spring weather. 💐

03/21/2024

03/12/2024

Signs of spring… way earlier than expected! Stay tuned if you’re ready to get some extra-early spring blooms in your hands in coming weeks🤞🏽🙌🏽

03/02/2024

(3/3) After years of growth and gardening in our separate ways and places, our paths converged again in 2021, as I prepared for the birth of my first child and considered taking a pause from my corporate job as a product manager while I transitioned to motherhood. I had worked for several years through college at a dreamy greenhouse/florist and studied horticulture at MSU, so now I dreamed of how I could incorporate more plants and flowers as well as my love for small business into this next stage of my life. My older sister then gifted me a load of seeds from , and it was just the nudge we needed to take a leap, plotting out a portion of the fields that I grew up building stick forts on and committing to a trial season of flower farming at scale.

Needless to say, we were hooked! Now, much more knowledge and experience behind us and with two little girls in tow, we’re embarking on our fourth season of cut flower farming. We are particularly passionate about bringing blooms to our local communities that have fallen out of common use or that are unusual to find at bigger box florist shops/grocery stores.

Gardening continues to be a comforting rhythm of our lives and a common passion we’ve shared. We love poring over seed catalogs in January, dreaming up new ventures together, getting our hands back in the dirt each spring, tweaking our process along the way, and most of all, making new friends while sharing over-abundant harvests.

1 That first “trial field” in 2021 that produced way more blooms than we were prepared to handle!
2 Planting our first dahlia seedlings in 2021.
3 My sister guilty of gifting the first flower seeds that started this all off😆
4 Dahlia digging crew 2021 with a 2 month old 😅

02/29/2024

(2/3) While my Grandpa Ed shared his love of gardening with my mom during her growing-up years in rural Nebraska, she later carried a chunk of his rhubarb plant, baggies of his zinnia seeds, a few of his canna bulbs, and her own love of cultivation with her when the auto industry took her own family across the country to Michigan.

There she cultivated her own (huge) veggie garden, expanding the plot nearly every year while also designing and redesigning the landscaping (and interior) of the house she and my dad built in the early 90’s, where they raised me and my older 2 siblings.

This is where I followed along through the seasons, measuring the daily growth of our Bleeding Heart plant in the springtime, dropping bean seeds into the furrow behind mom, searching together for buried potato treasures, and harvesting and drying herbs for winter use. Eventually we found ourselves poring over gardening books side by side and dreaming up “someday” business ventures over cups of tea.

One of these ideas included a garden “shed” that quickly got out of hand in our design imaginations and somehow ended up with official architectural plans, an adorable chimney, and a loft for my future kids to sleep over at Grandma’s house in….

1 Mom in her 90’s element in her MI veggie garden.
2 Me in my barefoot, prairie muffin element complete with… headscarf?
3 SPOILER ALERT: the garden shed of our dreams!

02/28/2024

(1/3) Our origin story starts with our namesake, Ed, my grandpa and my mom’s (Yvonne’s) dad. As you perhaps can tell from these photos, he was a steady, supportive, generous presence in our lives, always ready to love us by building a fence or garden cabinet with his daughter or the latest desired doll accessory for his granddaughters.

Grandpa Ed cultivated a garden all his life, from north Germany to rural Nebraska, even into his later years, dusting off potatoes or snapping beans as he sat next to Yvonne’s garden in Michigan - “supervising.”😉 The garden (as well as his wood shop) was one of his happy places, and he passed his love of cultivating, sowing, and harvesting to us.

He is our inspiration, and we can’t wait to share the joy of gardening with him again someday.

1/3 Grandpa Ed & Grandma Gertie with their first grandchild, my brother, in his garden in Nebraska.
2/3 Ed & Yvonne with the garden cupboard they designed and built for my mom from scrap wood, still in use today.
3/3 Hard at work cutting trim for the house my parents built that I grew up in (now the site of our flower farm).

02/27/2024

As we embark on our fourth season of cut flower farming, I realized that we haven’t introduced ourselves or told our origin story in a while, so buckle up for a mini “intro-series” this week.

If you already know the story, here’s a throwback of me (the one in the wheelbarrow having the most fun and doing the least work) doing our weekly grass pickup routine with my older brother and sister.

02/14/2024

Happy Valentine’s Day! We hope that your day involves fresh flowers and time with the ones you love!

💕 While I don’t love some of the commercialization of this holiday, I do enjoy that flowers are consistently one of the ways we as humans find to communicate our appreciation and affection for those we care about, and how that hasn’t changed over decades (centuries?! I’m no historian…). This is one of the many reasons we love working with flowers - the ability to share so much joy and appreciation with so many others in our lives. We hope you take time to do the same today, with flowers or words or both!

02/07/2024

If you’re looking for a meaningful and sustainable gift for your Valentine, look no further! Bouquet subscriptions keep on giving all season long, and we have new options this year for the DIY-er or the dahlia lover in your life.

Check out subscription details at our website, convenient pickup available in Canton or Hartland!

01/31/2024

This is your reminder that Valentine’s Day is TWO WEEKS AWAY.

What could be better than surprising your Valentine with fresh flowers? How about fresh local flowers, all season long?! We have 4 subscription options this year for every budget and schedule.

Check out details and reserve fresh flowers for your love at our website. Pick up available in Hartland or Canton. Link in bio!

01/25/2024

More non-photogenic winter tasks include disinfecting and prepping tons of seed trays.

Usually I try to do this one when it’s still pleasant outside in the fall, but since I was very pregnant this year at that time, here we are in January: bleaching & rinsing & drying to make sure we don’t pass on unwanted viruses from season to season. With some AirPods and an audiobook, it actually wasn’t too bad of a task today and feels good to be one step closer to planting in a couple of weeks! 💪🏽

01/18/2024

Surviving negative-windchill, January-hibernation by reminiscing about scenes like this and polishing up my seed starting schedule.

I start my first seeds in my basement around the end of February and it can’t come soon enough! I’m upgrading some of my lighting and fertilizing this year and am excited to see the impact on my basement seedlings. Hoping it means even stronger flower babes when we transition them outside, which could mean blooms in your hands even earlier!

What flowers are you daydreaming about the most right now?

11/25/2023

We’re honored to join other small businesses today in celebrating the hard work, creativity, and passion that goes into providing quality products to our local communities. Thank you for your love and support in enabling us to bring the joy of fresh and unusual blooms to so many and make new friends in the process!

Check out our offering of subscriptions in the link in our bio, and as you prepare for a beautiful and meaningful Christmas, consider sharing a bloom-ful spring, summer and fall, treating yourself and others you cherish with a bouquet subscription. We’re offering two new options this year: a DIY Bucket of Blooms option and a Dahlias Only subscription for the dahlia lover in your life.

🔗 Link for all 2024 subscription details and offerings: https://www.edsgardenshedmi.com/shop

11/11/2023

We just can’t get enough of these deep gorgeous colors… these everlasting hand-helds are perfect to drop into your favorite vase or jar for a side table, centerpiece, nightstand, bathroom counter, or just anywhere you want that pop of the deep warmth left from the summer’s glory.

Make Thanksgiving dinner even more glorious with this pop of beauty on the side and continue to enjoy all winter long. Wrapped in a coordinating woven ribbon, this lovely bouquet will hold you over until daffodils and tulips fill our vases months from now.

Comment to let us know which color is your favorite. Message us to arrange pickup for your everlasting bouquet in Hartland or Canton - $25 each.

11/09/2023

With the holiday season quickly approaching, consider a custom everlasting wreath as a host gift or festive touch to your indoor decor. DM us or comment for more photos, sizes, and prices of our dried floral wreaths.

Local pickup available in Hartland or Canton.

11/04/2023

A few scenes from this week:
🌷 a few hundred specialty daffodils and tulips going in the dirt to share with you in the spring
✋🏽 many hands helping with field cleanup
🧹 my parents put in many hours cutting, digging, and cleaning dahlia tubers to tuck away for next year
🌻 so many dried beauties in the garden shed reminding us of an abundant season
🎉 still finding fun surprises in the garden like snapdragons ready to bloom despite the cool temps

10/21/2023

Said goodbye to the flower field tonight before our (surprisingly late) first frost steals the rest of the blooms this weekend. It’s been such a lovely third season growing, learning, and sharing the generous beauty from the garden.

All our thanks to you for being a part of our journey and embracing this process with us! Stay tuned for more details about our plans for next season soon 💕

10/15/2023

Happy to announce the latest addition to the EGS team - Phoebe Tori arrived safely on October 7, and we’re thankful to be settling in as a family of 4 as the garden winds down for the season.

In garden news, we still have everlasting floral wreaths available, and stay tuned for 2024 subscription options before the holidays! Comment or DM us with any questions.

09/22/2023

Hartland locals: it’s golden hour in the Garden Shed! Stop by Friday or Saturday until sunset for self service fresh or dried bouquets, autumn wreaths, and other floral beauties. We’d love to share this sweet haven with you!

Cash or Venmo.

DM us if you need the address!

09/21/2023

NEW: Autumn wreaths are here! Our wreaths are handmade entirely from flowers dried from our fields this season (with the exception of the frames). These are a few of our favorites so far - several of which are already spoken for, but read on for details on how to get your own!

What sizes and prices are available?
🌼 8-10” Twig framed wreath (photos 2 & 4) - $25
🌼 12-14” Twig framed wreath (photos 1 & 3) - $40
🌼 20-22” Everlasting wreath, wire frame (photos 6-7) - $55-60 depending on final size

How long will they last?
When kept dry and out of direct sunlight, they’ll keep for a long time (ok, we don’t have an exact time frame, but my front door wreath from last year still looks as fresh as day 1!).

How can I get one?
DM/email/text us today to order your preferred size (some color preference is available too), as we’re making these to order. Pickup is available in Hartland or Canton.

08/30/2023

We expanded our sunflower planting this season, gotbetter about succession planting (planting smaller batches every 2 weeks for 2ish months), and have so loved these happy faces as they bloom. Despite bunnies snacking on a bunch of them, slugs on another bunch, and learning that we need to plant them so much closer together for a useable size, they’ve brought so much joy.

08/23/2023

The only thing more special than sharing our blooms themselves is getting to see them through fresh eyes as our guests used them to create such a fabulous variety of arrangements, each expressing their own style and personality. Thanks to all who came to share with us last night!

08/23/2023

What an absolute TREAT to share this gorgeous golden hour with fellow flower lovers last night. The rain cleared just in time, the field was practically showing off as the sun emerged, and it was such a gift to play with flowers with such a lovely and talented group.

08/09/2023

If you ask me about how our flowers are looking this season, I might not stop gushing about the colors of the harvest this week… can’t get enough of this palette 🤤