Farm To Vase: Local, Seasonal, Sustainable Floral Design

10/10/2023

This is the novel for garden lovers, tree huggers, flower nerds, Midwesties, and anyone who loves a good story! Told in short chapters alternating between Milwaukee Chris and Mount Horeb Jo (will they meet?!) in a pleasant large-print format, come along on the journey Midwest Book Review called “the ride of a lifetime” and “a must-read.” 📚

BRUSH: A NOVEL

06/26/2023

lifecycle of a blackberry

11/05/2022

08/03/2022

The Wisconsin farm has become the largest field-grown cut flower producer in the Midwest, by focusing on winter perennials like bittersweet vines and forsythia

05/08/2022

Considering I’m a female entrepreneur and a mother myself, I probably need a better phrase than “balls to the walls.” Regardless, it’s great to be busy today and thanks so much for all the orders! My favorite part is seeing what you write on the cards to your mammas. SOOO sweet and let’s just say it’s good my order form doesn’t have a character limit! 😂 Of course it isn’t always a biological mother who gets the flowers today, and mother is an expansive word. I remember in one of those Mister Rogers movies there was a minute of silence when he asked us to think about each person who “loved us into being.” I think that’s a beautiful exercise for a day like today. Close your eyes and start at the beginning.

Voted 2015, 2016, 2017 Best of Madison by Madison Magazine! Finalist 2018, 2019, 2020!   Welcome to the Slow Bouquet, made from flowers grown on farms near Madison, Wisconsin, assembled using sustainable materials. 80% of cut flowers sold in the US are imported, often coming from growing fields whe...

02/10/2022

You have a few more days to grab a free $10 coupon code on www.farmtovase.com. Text it to a friend/partner, write it in a V-day card, or save it on your fridge for when your favorite blooms are popping. 🌸 Redeem May-Oct, one per customer. Don’t worry this isn’t my way of getting you on my perma-digital-annoyance list...I’m of the generation that doesn’t think anyone needs to be in constant contact with their eco-florist. 🤗

05/10/2021

Of all the gorgeous doorways we delivered to this past weekend, this one is the winner. And when she opened the door I smelled breakfast cooking and heard people laughing. The world felt a little more normal this Mother’s Day! (Or I actually died last year and this doorway is The Good Place 🤷‍♀️)

04/24/2021

Leave them and admire them! ❤️

Here are some interesting facts about the dandelion flower:

The dandelion is the only flower that represents the 3 celestial bodies of the sun, moon and stars. ☀️ 🌙 ⭐️. The yellow flower resembles the sun, the puff ball resembles the moon and the dispersing seeds resemble the stars.

The dandelion flower opens to greet the morning and closes in the evening to go to sleep. 😴

Every part of the dandelion is useful: root, leaves, flower. It can be used for food, medicine and dye for coloring.

Up until the 1800s people would pull grass out of their lawns to make room for dandelions and other useful “weeds” like chickweed, malva, and chamomile.

The name dandelion is taken from the French word “dent de lion” meaning lion’s tooth, referring to the coarsely-toothed leaves. 🦁

Dandelions have one of the longest flowering seasons of any plant.

Dandelion seeds are often transported away by a gust of wind and they travel like tiny parachutes. Seeds are often carried as many as 5 miles from their origin!

Animals such as birds, insects and butterflies consume nectar or seed of dandelion.🐦 🐛 🐜 🦋 🐝.

Dandelion flowers do not need to be pollinated to form seed.

Dandelion can be used in the production of wine and root beer. Root of dandelion can be used as a substitute for coffee. 🍷 🍺

Dandelions have sunk their roots deep into history. They were well known to ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, and have been used in Chinese traditional medicine for over a thousand years.

Dandelion is used in folk medicine to treat infections and liver disorders. Tea made of dandelion act as diuretic.

If you mow dandelions, they’ll grow shorter stalks to spite you.

Dandelions are, quite possibly, the most successful plants that exist, masters of survival worldwide. 💪

A not so fun fact: Every year countries spend millions on lawn pesticides to have uniform lawns of non-native grasses, and we use 30% of the country’s water supply to keep them green.

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