Some interesting daffodil facts! 1. They are also called Narcissus (if you want to sound fancy when you refer to them). 2. Like tulips, daffodils grow from bulbs that get planted underground in the fall. Unlike tulips, they can be enjoyed as a cut flower year after year from the same bulbs without having to replant new ones. 3. According to the American Daffodil Society, there are over 32,000 hybrids or cultivars 😯 but only 13 distinct types (think shapes). I grow roughly 10 different types of what we call “fancy daffs” as they are specialty varieties less likely to be found in grocery store bouquets.4. They have a wonderful fragrance! The scent literally exudes spring.5. Daffodils “don’t play well with others” as they release a sticky sap into the water that causes other flower varieties to expire faster. A workaround for this is to process (aka cut) their stems in a separate vase and allow the sap to run out there before adding them to a vessel with other flowers.I have grown fonder of them each year and can’t wait to be out there pulling them soon!
The screen text says it all! Don’t miss out on the only discount each year on our Subscriptions. This is your best way to guarantee a spring or summer (how about both?) full of color!🎨 This is a perfect gift for someone who “has everything” and we even offer local delivery! All merchandise on the site remains marked down through Saturday as well. Visit our website to shop!
They are back for year 5! Don’t miss out on purchasing a bouquet subscription for next year, the one and only time each year they’ll be discounted. Perfect timing for your holiday shopping! This Friday, November 24, all 2024 subscriptions (as well as the rest of the merchandise on our site) will be available for sale for 10% off, through Friday, 12/1. Visit the “2024 Bouquet Subscriptions” link in my profile to learn more about subscriptions and the spring and summer collection. (All subscriptions will be open for purchase on Friday; they are currently marked “out of stock.”) As usual, there are options for pickup and local delivery as well as the schedule for bouquets received. No matter what, every single bloom is grown lovingly right here in our cut flower fields. You cannot beat the lasting joy and beauty of local flowers! Previous customers have described their subscriptions as: “the best gift I ever received”“an annual form of self care”“something I look forward to every week.” I’d love to grow for you and the flower lovers in your life next year!💐
Yesterday I spent some of best hours of the season in my flower fields. Cutting what was left of the dahlias, bundling strawflower to dry, admiring all the energy both spent and potential that has gone into the growing season. Thinking of all the people I’ve been able to share blooms with over the past 5 months. Knowing the frost was going to hit today and close things out until 2024. It is always bittersweet, this transition. Fall cleanup doesn’t have the same excited expectations as spring planting. But it has its own magic, because we are already preparing for next year’s flowers, and thanking the ones that will now return to the earth for all that they gave.Til next year, my beauties.✨
I scheduled some unstructured creative time last week following a visit to the beautiful, idyllic, can-barely-believe-it’s real Summer Dreams Farm in Oxford for their final U-pick of the year. All I can say is I wish flowers lived forever but we are blessed and better off just to experience them at all. This little piece lived on my wall for about 48 hours and I smiled every time I looked at it.✨
One of the most fun and eclectic bouquets I have had the pleasure of designing! It started with a non-typical color palette and desire for a bit of edgy & funky alongside the best the season could offer. And that cosmos shake shake, well, it shook me.Set against the amazing vibe at Gem Theatre, Sara & Daniel’s big day made for an epic occasion. Thanks, lovers, for the chance to be part of your wedding.❤️🔥🍂🌾
Ahhhh September. An all you can eat buffet of local flowers. The best of the dahlias and what remains of our favorite summer annuals. Drink it in, friends. This is what February dreams are made of.✨It’s also my birthday month (fellow Virgos, where you at?♍️✌🏽) and the start of college football. Basically a lot of wonderful things lumped into a single month.🍁
Of butterflies, bees, and frogs.🦋🐝🐸I love that my flower field is a haven for them all.
Saturday 8/12 Bouquet Drop!
UPDATE: I have a few unclaimed beauties left - message me here or at [email protected] for porch pickup on Sunday 8/13.☺️
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Hitting Come Get Cozy in downtown Linden today 8/12 at noon! $20 each. Get yourself some warm summer colors!🔥
We are more than halfway through 2023 and my wedding calendar is filling up beautifully for 2024! Thank you to all the amazing couples who have booked and trust me with this honor.As I survey what’s on deck for next year, the NUMBER ONE trend I’m seeing is COLOR!🌈This makes me over the moon happy. Not any specific palettes, per se (though pastels are coming in hot 🔥) but I love that folks aren’t afraid to spin the color wheel a bit, which opens the floodgates of floral possibilities when it comes to bloom selection. The more varied your color palette is, the more flexibility we have with floral recipes, in terms of seasonal availability as well as making substitutions (which happens frequently; it’s just the nature of the game). And don’t fret if you’re hooked on a more neutral palette! Those are timeless, and there are endless ways to make it unique to your day. PS If you’re interested in working together for a 2024 event, inquire soon! My spring to early summer is almost full, and fall is getting there. Best way to inquire is via the contact form on my website! Bouquet created for @meagandoe ✨
Popup bouquets at Come Get Cozy
Find these bouquets at the pop up hosted by Come Get Cozy tomorrow 7/8! 100% locally grown.
Raining flowers? You got it. Sheridan & Scott’s wedding last Saturday was one for the books. Sheridan brought an incredible vision from day one of our work together: clean lines, organic minimalism, and a statement installation that set the tone for a magical garden feel at the reception. All through a lens of pinks and greens for a soft, springy feel. I grew and saved buckets of tulips in their color scheme and was lucky enough to score the most beautiful ranunculus from @fleurescent.farms. Local flowers really shone! How about those white pillars that made an appearance at both their ceremony and reflection? Yep, her dad made them.😯Partnering with the team at @thecollinsoffmain is always a treat, and we got to work in their new @thecollinsclocktower space! @haleycchicoine and @jonescreative.co expertly captured their day in photo and video, and their sneak peeks have already blown me away. (Hire them, seriously) Biggest thanks to my studio and on site team who made this happen! You ladies rock!Expect to see more of this one in my feed because it was pretty damn special.🌸#weddingflowers #floralinstallation #statementflowers #localflowers #michiganflorist #weddingflorist #michiganflowers #michiganwedding
For Grace. This one smelled as good as it looked, packed with fragrant varieties like lilacs, sweet peas, freesia, and roses. Local flowers are back! I’d been saving some of my tulips for Grace, knowing they’d play perfectly with her monochromatic palette, and the ranunculus from @fleurescent.farms via @michiganflowerbarn were a perfect fit. How about those purple picotees?!👀 We’ve got three more monochrome palettes coming up this weekend and I can’t wait to design in them!💜
Tulip season is WILD 🤪Yes I have plans for all of these and it lives in my head an multiple iPhone notes.🗒️#tulips #springflowers #michiganflowers #michiganflorist #locallygrown #localflowers #grownnotflown #specialtytulips #flowerfarmer
Love a lush, botanical, ceremony moment. And I always love working at The Holly Vault. 🌿Thanks for the assist on this one Pollen and Lace.
Tulips are a journey!🌷To enjoy them the following year, we purchase them mid summer, dig a trench and plant them as the weather turns cold (after clearing our fields), and then 🤞🏽that they get a long enough period to chill underground to produce beautiful, long stems come spring. So basically, there are about two months of the year where we are not occupied with tulips in some fashion!🙃I know they’re not for everyone, but the specialty varieties wow me every time. I’m thrilled to share them with you once again! PS 👋🏽 to my fellow Daisy Jones fans. You’re welcome.🌼
Our cooler was bursting with daffodils, and it’s been a heavy week here as we mourn the loss of our beloved dog, Vernon. Sharing flowers lifts our spirits, so I am putting out a limited number of 12-stem daffy bunches today (Thursday) in downtown Linden and Fenton, free for the taking.💛 Look for a black bucket containing pre wrapped bouquets at these 2 locations (also listed on the last slide of this reel): Linden: corner of Broad St & N Bridge, in front of the new Union Block bldg. Fenton: in front of the Community Center, at the “poker game” sculpture (150 S Leroy St)To honor our sweet doggo, I ask that bouquet recipients do one random act of kindness to sprinkle a bit of love in the world, the way he always did. The card in each bouquet gives you some ideas.✨When they’re gone, they’re gone! I hope it makes at least one person’s day.🤎
Let’s talk styling rectangular dining tables at your reception! Compared to rounds, there’s more real estate to consume, so they can be a bit pricier to decorate. Here are some tips and design ideas: 1. Less is more. Minimalism. Visually, our eyes appreciate processing a smaller volume of content, so the rule of thumb does not have to be “go big or go home” here. 2. Mix and match. Choose 1-3 different elements total - such as the examples in the clips here - and style them together. Bud vases, Ikebana bowls, candles, votives, etc. 3. Clusters vs single file. The latter is boring and reminds us of grade school fire drills, amirite? I like to create little groupings along the center line with the decor elements, and odd numbers are always pleasing, such as 2 bud vases and a candle. 4. Height! As your eyes scan the length of the table, they should move up and down as if taking in a cityscape or mountain range. This creates interest and balance. Intentionally choose items with mixed heights (I always aim for small, medium, tall with whatever I pick). 5. Repetition: both on a single table and around the room. Repetition is one of the principles of design because it achieves cohesion. This means each table does not need to be styled identically as long as they share some of the same elements - flowers, color, decor pieces, materials. I hope you found this helpful! Even if if inspires you to design a cozy, intimate tablescape at home.🕯️
📣Covering all the deets on our 2023 bouquet subscriptions! VISIT THE LINK to dig in: https://epsilonfloral.com/subscriptions. This video is more informational than entertaining but do you know what alleviates boredom? LOCAL FLOWERS! 😂 Space remains in all of our bouquet subscriptions this year and I would love to get flowers to you or a loved one! I grow them to share them.💐
WHY invest in future flowers? 3 reasons👇🏽
1. Experiences >>> things. We all have so much clutter in our lives. Flowers are a “physical” gift but they don’t last forever, which is part of their majesty. Investing in something that biodegrades naturally means you get the enjoyment without taking up permanent space, and that’s kinder to the planet, too.
2. Flowers are scientifically proven to trigger happiness! A 2005 study by Jeanette Haviland-Jones found that when compared with gifts of similar size and price, a bouquet of flowers produced the most genuine response of joy. Giving the gift of flowers to yourself has the same effect! (Apparently so do puppies but I don’t recommend surprising someone else with one.🙃)
3. The value of expectation and regularity. You know that scene from “Christmas Vacation” where Cousin Eddie tells Clark that the jelly-of-the-month club is the gift that keeps on giving? He’s not wrong! The subscription model of our bouquet offerings gives members something to look forward to with regularity vs an all at once experience.
A reminder that Friday 12/2 is the final day that 2023 subscriptions will be on sale for 10% off! Of course you can still join well into the new year, but the savings only happens once. Don’t hesitate to drop me a note if you have questions about the different offerings, deliveries, etc.
https://epsilonfloral.com/flower-subscriptions/
Thank you to everyone who has invested in a subscription so far! I’m already imagining what I will get to share with you…
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