Heirloom Soul Florals

07/14/2024

Come learn with us at Cornell AgriTech at the Summer Cut Flower Conference this July 29th-30th in Geneva, NY! I'll be presenting on Growing native perennial cut flowers.

Come learn from local growers and Cornell experts! Topics include pricing, crop scheduling, bulbs, perennials as cut flowers and more!Cut flower growers will learn a variety of information including crop scheduling and planning, calculating prices, bulbs as cut flowers, using perennials and natives....

05/05/2024

Tomorrow May 6th is our LAST CALL for ordering Dahlia Tuber Gift Boxes for Mother's Day shipping! Get FREE SHIPPING with code: FREESHIP75. Below is our "wedding cake" box with a mix of gorgeous champagne, blush and white dahlias. Ship to yourself or direct to your recipient with a handwritten note inside :)

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03/02/2024

Hello friends! My dahlia tuber sale is live with 46 varieties of gorgeous dahlias to grow in your garden! Many varieties are available in 5-packs. I also have bulk bags of 10 and 25 tubers. Thank you to everyone who have purchased dahlias in the first few hours of the sale! Your support of my flower farm truly means the world 🌸

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02/05/2024

Are dahlias hard to grow? It's one of the questions I get the most as a cut flower farmer, and I put some thoughts down in this blog post. Short answer is, They CAN be hard to grow. Learn what dahlias want!

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01/30/2024

Wedding bouquets are one of my favorite things to make. Each one turns out completely different. Since 2019, I've designed over 100 real wedding bouquets and just updated the gallery... click the LINK below if you have time and let me know what you think! :)

https://www.heirloomsoul.com/bridal-bouquet-gallery

01/25/2024

Hey friends! I'm starting to dust off my seed starting shelves and get ready for our first round of seeds soon. If you'd like to see exactly how I set up my seed shelves/lights/trays for growing thousands of plants every spring, check out this post! I hope it's helpful 🌿

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01/19/2024

Hey local friends, if you or an engaged couple you know is looking for flowers for the *bridal party only*… we do that. I love designing smaller wedding orders of just bouquets & boutonnières, if that’s your wish. Even if you’re only dreaming of a gorgeous bouquet for yourself and are worried you won’t meet our minimum for wedding orders, hit me up anyway (send me an email at [email protected])

For people who love my flowers, I am more than happy to make what I can if my schedule allows.
Please never hesitate to reach out! 💞💞💞

Pictured are a few orders of attendant bouquets. They are packed up in boxes, ready for pickup. Bouquets are always packed fresh in jars or vases with water & flower food. All bouquets were made with flowers & foliage grown sustainably and harvested directly from our flower farm the day before 🐛🌸

01/14/2024

Our Annual Dahlia Tuber Sale will happen on Sat March 2nd! It’s an online only sale (link below) that will take the same format as every year, but with more selections! 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸

- 45+ dahlia varieties
- some in 5-packs at discounted pricing (5-pack selections aren’t on website yet, fyi)
- bulk packages of 10 or 25 unlabeled/mystery tubers at a heavy discount (great for farmers!)
- 3 different fabulous & fun Gift Boxes that will ship for Mothers Day
- 10% off your entire order the first weekend (you need a code so sign up for our email list!)

I’ll talk about this over & over again until the time comes. Inventory is uploaded on our website at the link below. There are tons of new varieties to choose from! 💞

heirloomsoul.com/dahlia-tubers/

01/04/2024

Greetings, Facebook pals. I haven't posted on here in over 2 years! In pure honesty, I got to the point where I simply couldn't stand having to manage multiple social media accounts, so I chose to just keep up with Instagram and kicked this Facebook account to the dust. All the while, here it is still existing, accumulating new people into this circle where I've offered nothing for a long time.

So hello again, and I look forward to connecting with you on here, through posts and comments! I will still have an auto message on for direct messages, asking you to email me for inquiries and questions about flowers... respectfully, I just do not have the capacity as a human being to check multiple accounts for messages on a daily basis.

I'm looking forward to sharing more updates about our flower farm with beautiful pictures of flowers, messy pictures of soil prep and dirty work, and keeping you up to date with offerings from our fields! Thanks for stickin' with me 🌸🌸🌸

12/30/2021

This zinnia did the cutest thing✨

Flowers growing in the field are so unique and might I say precious, even. It’s hard not to admire every one of these while harvesting, although I try not to cause it would otherwise slow me down when cutting hundreds of stems at a time. Zinnias and dahlias are my two favorite ones to watch because their faces are all so unique - blooms differ even when they’re growing off the very same plant! Everyone loves dahlias; I get it, they’re easy to love and have the reputation of being harder to grow and, perhaps, are more out-of-reach for some people. But zinnias don’t get the recognition they deserve.

A comment I get frequently about zinnias is “oh I grow tons of those” or “oh those are so easy to grow.” My response is, yes, they’re easy to grow which makes them even more *magnificent.* So what if they’re easy to grow? I say bless their little flower hearts for their rainbow of colors and shapes and sizes; their long, strong stems standing up through wind storms; their drought tolerance; their love for the sometimes unbearable heat of July — all incredible qualities we flower farmers rely on for cut flowers 🌸🌸🌸

Zinnias were some of the first flowers I grew, among the veggie gardens I worked in, just about 10 years ago. Growing zinnias, and witnessing their funny variations from bloom to bloom, is what made me love flowers.

Cheers to EVEN MORE zinnias in 2022! 🍾

12/28/2021

Enjoying this week off between xmas and the new year (except when I got antsy this afternoon and started making our Jan-Feb to-do list 😱🆘)

Trying my hardest to unplug & turn off the screens. There are exciting new things coming for next season and I can hardly stand not making new spreadsheets to organize the work to come!! …at least we love what we do around here to the point that spreadsheets are actual fun 😛

Some things I’ll be doing in the next 1-2 weeks include a social media & blogging schedule (speaking of which, there’s lots of new flower/gardening content in my blog if you need some helpful reading material); zipping up that Jan/Feb to-do list; dividing dahlia tubers on the “warm” days; uploading the latest wedding floral photos to my website portfolio; and drafting my seed starting schedule. Among a zilli other things, including things unrelated to work, like house projects and hanging with our adorable new kitty, Pepper, who we just got two days ago! When people ask me what I do in the winter I usually say “nothing” and it’s a bold faced lie 🤫

12/25/2021

No flowers, just our faces today 🌸🌸 I’m grateful for so many things this year. Amazing trusting clients, community support, our friends at , sun that shines, soil that drains, and tens of thousands of beautiful blooms. That just scratches the surface. What I’m most thankful for is my incredible life partner, Jesse, who holds my hand and lifts me up everyday through this flower journey, whether it’s a good day or a bad day. He helps me bloom so I can help my little corner of the world bloom brighter every year. And vice-versa. I wish you sweetness this holiday, in whatever capacity that means for you.

Merry Christmas🎄 love, Fran & Jesse

12/24/2021

All I want for xmas is more dahlias… ✨💐 Flowers are beauty, love and hope. Locally- & organically-grown flowers are hands-down the best! ✨We’ve still got flower bouquet subscriptions if you need a super special, last minute gift (locals only, we don’t ship flowers💞)✨

12/22/2021

I wish it would snow so the houses & yards & streets would be caked with soft white fluff like this larkspur ❄️❄️❄️

Snow child here, who’s with me 👋

12/18/2021

The name of these garden roses (top 3) is Soul Sister, and one of my favorites. The petals are softer than velvet and smell sweet — dare I say peachy. I can’t help but dig my nose in (without abandon, might I add, as these are completely bee loved & chemical-free!) 🍑🍑🍑

12/17/2021

Colorful red + coral maids at 🌅 🥀

12/13/2021

Kayla’s sweet bouquet from last summer was made using flowers & foliage that were 100% grown on our flower farm… something I am so proud of and striving for more of in 2022 💐

Within the next 2 years I hope to be entirely independent from the traditional wholesale flower market. I think this is a goal for most farmer-florists but not everyone achieves it for different reasons (including low production & crop failures, meeting specific client requests outside the realm of the farm, among other things)

Using only our own-grown ingredients will mean we’ll never do anything out of season, which I’m 💯% okay with. It will require our clients to fully trust our floral & foliage expertise, and it will require me to gently say no to non-farm flower & greenery requests (which, to be honest, I’m also totally okay with. I’ve found so many of my clients to be trusting & gracious, encouraging my expertise).

All of the above will require me to be more communicative about this local floral design model and the reasons behind how wonderful it is: the unique variety of ingredients, the unparalleled fragrance & freshness, ZERO chemicals, all the way down to the heartwarming nod we give to our heirloom roots as natural creators using earth abundant materials.

I also can’t omit mentioning our deep commitment to not just conserving, but enhancing, our lands by way of regenerative agriculture practices on the flower farm. Our farm not only provides welcoming habitat for visible fauna & flora — it’s also home to a living, life-supporting network of soil microbes that steadily works as a carbon sink. We don’t just recognize climate change — we acknowledge the part our business plays in the big picture. Rather than throw our hands up in the air in existential crisis, we’ve made a decision to contribute to climate change mitigation in the best ways we know how — use the land as a tool to reduce atmospheric carbon, and to stop contributing to a system that does the opposite (the traditional wholesale flower market). Our impact may be small but I believe in the power of the trickle-down effect.

There are many layers here. I hope you’ll welcome this ongoing conversation 💞💞

11/26/2021

Kind reminders for today- 1) Credit card debt and more stuff does not equal love; 2) There will always be a sale ❄️

The perfect buttery yellow rose does exist 🌼 🍰