🤍What stage do you want flowers harvested at?
🤍How often and what quantities do you need or are willing to buy from a small grower?
🤍What flowers can you not get from the wholesale that a local grower could provide?
🤍I would love to know ideal prices per bunch
🤍What would be the best way to let you know what we have growing and available, email or a private Instagram account just for florists? Other ideas? What is easiest for you in terms of seeing availability?
🤍How can I help you see what I have and make the ordering process smooth? Develop creative synergies, Know how to plan ahead for what you have coming?
🤍I’d be curious if you have a pricing sheet
🤍What can we do to make your life easier?
🤍What colors are you hoping to have available this year?
🤍Do you prefer to communicate via email, Instagram, text, call, etc?
🤍Are you more interested in delivery (with fees for delivery) or on-site pick up?
🤍When is the day you’d prefer to pickup/receive your flowers? How many days before a wedding do you need to pick up blooms?
🤍Any color you predict to be big this year?
🤍Are you interested in “shopping the harvest” to add unique specialty blooms to take your designs next-level?
🤍When would you like to see the availability list, and what day of the week is the best for picking up?
🤍I have historically field stripped and bunched my flowers and foliage but wonder if this is necessary or desirable to all florists?
🤍What is the minimum stem length florists need?
🤍What is the preferred and most effective method for a flower farmer to make first contact with you, email with photos? Walk into a shop with flower samples? Invitation to come out to visit the farm?
🤍How frequently are twiggy/branch elements purchased rather than foraged by the florist themself?
🤍Do you like varieties like yarrow, rudbeckia, Queen Anne’s lace,, echinacea, bachelor’s button, bee balm, mint for foliage, basil also for foliage?
🤍Would an online platform for farmers where you could purchase from everyone locally but on the same site be more beneficial for you?
🤍We would love to know what works best for placing orders, what does that process look like? Phone calls, emails, website/cart, facetime, google docs?
🤍We would love to know what works best for placing orders, what does that process look like? Phone calls, emails, website/cart, facetime, google docs?
🤍What varieties of certain flowers do you prefer?
🤍Do you want colors other than popular ones for weddings?
🤍Would you purchase dried flowers?
🤍What is the best way for us to prep flowers for you? Do they need to be wrapped in plastic or paper sleeves?
🤍What can we grow for you? What are you looking for? Colors? Textures? Specific blooms or foliage?
🤍What do you never have enough of?
