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Molly Oliver Flowers is a sustainable floral design studio offering event design and seasonal floral
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08/18/2024

Forced to choose 10 favorites (impossible) from ‘s exquisite album from this exquisite day last October celebrating Ellen and Nick… From the one of a kind dress, suit and tie; to the seasonal fruits found at ; to the maples turning golden and catching the light in the best way… it was a whole vibe. So many locally sourced flowers for this 10/28/23 celebration… Stars of the show included Texas Rose celosia, chocolate cosmos, heirloom spray mums, Rose Toscano/Rock Run Ashley/Sweet Nathalie dahlias, Scoop and Fata Morgana scabiosa. Garden roses from our favorite included Koko Loco, Tranquility, Distant Drums and Honey Dijon.

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08/03/2024

A modern take on July flowers, complete with fleabane and butter and eggs harvested along the rosdsides… we loved designing for Grace and Alex last year at beautiful with ! Gorgeous captures by . Thanks to for supplying all the blooms!

07/25/2024

Celosia the heat lover is back in town🔥

07/23/2024

Took a pause for the past week in one of my favorite places on earth with some of my favorite humans. Biked, hiked, walked around ponds, swam in lakes and ocean, stargazed, visited family, took real unhurried TIME to cook and eat and talk and move and just bathe in the beauty of nature along the Maine coast. Picked a wild blueberry or three. Feeling revived and ready for our remaining summer events, and *very* grateful to have an amazing team (Paige, Liz, Eliza 🩷) that keeps everything running smoothly so that I can take a real break 🙏🏼⛰️🏕️. Feels especially hopeful to return with a new trajectory for the upcoming election... Ready to write letters and phone bank to help make sure we protect democracy as a whole!!, reproductive rights, LGBTQIA rights, voting rights, climate change legislation, and the rights of working people over those of corporations… and put 2-3 new progressive justices on the Supreme Court?! Busy fall anyone?

07/11/2024

Favorite flower alert! This week’s subscription flower is Cosmos. If I was forced to pick a favorite flower, it would have to be this one. Scroll to see both single and double petaled (“double click”) varieties. Pure poetry….All grown by Julia Bull of . Julia is one of the most experienced and savvy farmers I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting. The most farmer-y farmer you can imagine, Julia always delivers on quality. A huge part of that is knowing what makes each flower bloom its absolute best for the purchaser. For example, Cosmos are difficult to keep alive in a vase if they’ve been harvested after being pollinated. Julia cut these stems for our subscription members at “bud stage,”preventing insect pollination and giving each bloom the chance to reveal itself in its new home.

06/25/2024

Summer SALE… plus, poetry! 🌻

“???” You might be thinking. 🧐

For the first time eva, we are offering 4-bouquet and 8-bouquet subscriptions at 15% OFF! Purchase on or by July 7th and use code SUMMER. ☀️

So what about the poetry?, you ask! Well, ALL subscription bouquets in July and August will come with a poem tucked inside, written by a local poet. 📝

Summer flowers are JUST SO GOOD! You might say they’re pure poetry…. So this is the perfect time to test out our subscription, or gift it to a friend who can’t escape to summer fields. 🌾

Scroll for a peek at what’s in store for July + August!

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06/14/2024

Loving on Limonium this week. Statice, Sea Lavender, Russian Lavender, German Lavender… whatever you want to call it. It goes by many names across the globe and there are MANY species (~600!).

First slide is “rat tail” statice, also called pink pokers. It definitely seems to dance, and it’s always pink. This wily, seaweed - esque bloom is featured in our subscription bouquets this week - scroll to see how it contrasts but also finds support in the more commonplace Limonium sinuatum. Florists love statice - holds up for a long time without water, great for installations or personal items… such a wonderful winged, sculptural shape. Sturdy and dependable. Many colors… get into it!

06/13/2024

Rose season in NY 💗. That’s all!

06/12/2024

Botanical drawing and painting workshops are coming up!! ✨🎨🍾

Doesn’t sitting and drawing flowers and other specimens of late June sound lovely? Perhaps with cocktail or mocktail to sip?

Jessica Dalrymple, beloved Brooklyn naturalist painter will be leading 4 workshops this year at our new studio - in drawing and painting seasonal flowers (which I’ll have the pleasure of providing via our amazing local farm partners). All supplies included!

Consider joining me for one of the following this year- the first is coming up Sunday June 23rd!

Sunday 6/23: Botanical Drawing, 1-3:30pm, $55pp

Thurs. 8/15: Paint + Sip Sunflowers, 6-8pm (with cocktails and cocktails), $65pp

Thurs. 9/26: Botanical Drink and Draw, 6-8pm (with cocktails and mocktails), $35pp

Sun. 9/29: Fall Flower Painting, 1-4pm, $80pp

06/01/2024

Love, flowers, community and good food. What more do you need? We were honored to flower the wedding of one of our longtime subscription members back in March… nothing like flowering for a flower lover;) Happy pride month everyone!!

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05/30/2024

There’s a pretty brief window of time each year to savor naturally blue flowers - that time is now! In other words, late May through June. Our bouquets are packed with them this week — Nigella, Campanula, and Delphinium. Other blue flowers out and about this time of year: Iris, Bachelors Buttons, Lupine, Salvia, Allium, (just starting), Didiscus, Scabiosa (just starting), Forget Me Not… what am I missing?

05/28/2024

Many of you are new here! Welcome — it’s an honor to have you follow along. Lately I’ve been writing a little bit about my rambling road from English major to brief expat to organic farmer to sustainable floral designer. In case it’s of any solace to any twenty or even thirty-something’s out there, life can feel like a real mess for a while. And even once you’ve landed on a thing that feels true and fulfilling and good enough, there is doubt. Imposter syndrome. Small business ownership is risky and exhausting, while also rewarding on many levels. This kind of writing is a bit scary, vulnerable, and feels self indulgent or even pointless right now? Yet, it seemed to be the story I felt like telling this month. So if it’s interesting or useful to you let me know. Part 3 of 4 up on the Journal. More to come next week!

05/20/2024

For a lucky lady today.

05/14/2024

This Sunday is our PEONY workshop! And May is month. So get your nails done, and come play with flowers!

As a daily Lexapro taker, and longtime therapy-goer, I am here for any and all ways to relieve mental stress and the cognitive idiosyncrasies we’re born with or develop with time.

What drew me to flower work were likely the same things that drew me to farming work many years ago: proximity to nature, working with my body (movement), and lots of repetitive tasks. All of these things — and especially COLOR — are so soothing to my mind and nervous system.

Working with flowers - trimming, arranging, and just taking them in and having them in your environment- can help lower stress. Even a Harvard study proves this. So consider signing up and joining me this weekend! LINK IN BIO!

05/11/2024

It is such a pleasure and privilege to flower for you and the moms in your lives! Featuring so much locally grown goodness! Still taking orders for delivery Sun. 5/12. OR, swing by on Montague St., 12-2 and grab a bouquet from me!

05/01/2024

Spring flowers are the best flowers. This week’s subscription bouquet is blowing our minds. Thanks to the talented farmers at !

04/26/2024

✨ Mother’s Day is live ✨ Three sizes of locally-grown beauty to wow and celebrate the mama in your life, available for pick-up or delivery Sat. 5/11 or Sun. 5/12 thanks to many of our amazing partners! Pre-orders close 5/6, so hurry hurry! 🌷💐🌷💐🌷

04/18/2024

Endless enchantment with locally grown tulips. While there are still many more tulips to be harvested there on regional farms, we are moving on and making way for other spring flower in our subscription bouquets! More poppies, ranunculus, peonies and delphinium are on the horizon. set us up with such a stunning collection this week— singles, doubles, giants, parrots, fringes… a perfect reminder that tulips can be so far from ordinary.

04/03/2024

Late May flowers really showed up for Alexis and Eric last year - Lilac, Spirea, Ranunculus, Allium, Sweet Pea, Mountain Laurel… and ever iconic Callas were our main inspirations and the stars of the show, giving designs a more modern, clean line. Thanks to the amazing team on the job that day - .guy Tina + Sanjana! And to long time / always amazing vendor partners: photos by and catering / venue !

03/28/2024

Savoring tulips as we are soon going to see so many new spring flowers… these stunners - Cabanna Parrot and Silver Cloud (check out those dark stems if you scroll ➡️) were grown in Copake, NY by our friends Luke and Jenny and their hardworking crew at . I’ve know these two amazing farmers since 2010 or so. We were the weirdos at the local organic farming conference nerding out about flowers when the program was pretty much geared towards vegetable growers. Fast forward 14 years and they have scaled up from 1 acre to 20 in production, have two kids, three full time employees, and 25,000 dahlia tubers to plant this year;) Among many other beautiful varieties from Ranunculus and Anemones to Larkspur and Lisianthus. Eliza - who’s been with us for a couple years and is now our subscription production manager - caught up with Luke recently for some updates. Amazing gems in that interview (scroll to see one!). I think he captured tulips better than anyone I know when he said off the cuff: “They put on a real show for you right up to the point where they start dropping petals. It’s like an opera– if the main character dies she doesn’t just die— she sings for 45 minutes in the process.”

03/23/2024

Absolutely delighting in these photos of wedding flowers from a rather infamous date in M*F history: 9/29/23. If you remember, my courageous amazing team battled 5’ of water that rose over the course of 40 min, just before we were supposed to load out. Instead, they waded out - these bouquets over their heads - but 5k worth of flowers left behind. Half of us drove through endless traffic to get to the wholesale flower district in time to buy all the flowers over again for their ceremony and reception tables. We leaned into baby’s breath - not a usual flower for us - but we were so grateful to be able to pull off the wedding despite the storm! Our clients couldn’t have been more cool about it all, and frankly win couple of the year from me since they dealt with cancelled flights and so many unexpected twists and turns. Thank you to for saving the day by Uber-ing us this arch, water tubes and all the vessels. What a day.

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03/15/2024

We had the pleasure of designing for Trixie and Pablo twice in 2023 - a sweet and simple spring ceremony in April, and a cocktail style dinner party at the Boathouse in August. The weather played nice and we managed to pull off tapers outside! ( ) September is one of our favorite months to hit up the for seasonal fruits to compliment the flowers…

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03/08/2024

To all the beautiful women we get to flower… we see you, beyond the trappings of “bride.” You inspire us with your kindness, empathy, sensitivity, softness, openness, sense of justice, your generosity, and joy.

02/29/2024

Ranunculus undoes us again! We’re getting an early taste of this mesmerizing flower, thanks to our friends , who produce early Ranunculus in Red Hook, NY. Their 100+ year old farm (est. 1906!) has changed with the times over the years… initially part of the Violet growing boom in upstate New York, then switching to Anemones and eventually adding Ranunculus 15 years ago. These beguiling blooms will last up to 2 weeks with regular care!

02/27/2024

Do you know what “Remaining Season” is? It’s kinda the best deal in town;) Join in to experience and learn about the flowers of our region, seasonally, for the rest of the year. Weekly or Biweekly (that means every other week;). In 100% zero waste packaging. While supporting local flower farmers and rural economies. It’s also your chance to enjoy these blooms at our lowest price!! With it comes your choice of a FREE gift: A complimentary custom vase OR pair of our favorite clippers OR a hand - tied bouquet. You will also get 5-10 complimentary deliveries depending on your sign up date. What’s more: 15% of any profits from subscriptions are donated directly to BIPOC farmers, and BIPOC led organizations working on land based reparations and support for BIPOC farmers.

02/26/2024

Colorful winter flowers… for Vera’s Bat Mitzvah last January 💖. While we source close to 100% of our flowers locally for events April - October, the shoulder months average around 60-70%. Here, locally grown Anemones and Ranunculus paired with more of the same, but Japanese grown. Plus some California grown Eucalyptus and Protea, and pink cherry- forced early further south on the eastern seaboard. Dried bamboo we kept around was up-cycled here, spray painted with compost-safe milk paint. More on our practices coming soon on the blog this week!

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02/23/2024

Stole some time this morning to play with pink leftovers 🩷. There were approx a million other things I should have been doing - all having to do with sitting down at my computer. But I reminded myself that I set an intention in January to take weekly time for creative play. I really want to grow as a designer this year - explore and play with the familiar flowers I see each week of the year. The the studio was empty, so I put on some music and got lost in the tulips, anemone and sweet peas.

02/22/2024

It’s Tulip season! Or is it?

Most New Yorkers won’t see their favorite neighborhood tulips pop up until March or April. However, increasingly, local flower farmers are taking to growing ‘winter tulips:’ forcing pre-chilled bulbs in passively heated greenhouses (with occasional spurts of electricity as needed:).

Like many spring-blooming bulbs, tulips need a period of vernalization, or chilling period - usually 12-14 weeks: a necessary part of the plant’s reproduction that promotes flowering. In colder climates, nature takes care of this, as fall-planted bulbs endure months of cold underground.

Once a bulb has been held at the proper temperature for the appropriate amount of time, farmers can plant these bulbs into crates or raised beds inside greenhouses that will provide the needed warmth to sprout and flower.

Passively warmed greenhouses - where trapped sunlight can bring ambient temps up 20 degrees or more — is a great place to bring on early tulip growth! We’re featuring winter-grown tulips this week in our subscription (see bouquet above)!

Tulips are native to Turkey and Central Asia. The selection of wild species began in 10th Century Persia, and really took off in 16th C. Europe. The Netherlands remain the ‘tulip growing capital of the world,’ still leading in production and breeding. Most US wholesalers and growers source their bulbs from the Netherlands.

02/01/2024

💕 FUN ANNOUNCEMENT! 💕 The first 3 purchasers of Valentine’s Day flowers at EACH pick-up location listed below will receive an extra gift- a dessert, bottle of wine, or $15 gift card from our amazing hosts! A little something to sweeten the deal. Your flowers will be seasonal, locally/domestically sourced, and packed in COMPOSTABLE / RECYCLABLE tissue + raffia. Choose a hand-tied bouquet or vase arrangement (in a pretty pink vase). OR. Maybe like me, you want the softest, sweetest bunch of PINK pussywillow?!? Locally grown, and the perfect mid-winter pick me up to admire for days. Daily petting required 🐇.

Inwood- Coffee bag of your choicebooksellers Upper West Side - Lovestruck Latte and Mini Fudge Cake; Upper East Side - $15 gift card
West and Central Harlem - $15 gift card
Tribeca - $15 gift card
Brooklyn Heights- $15 gift card
Windsor Terrace - Surprise dessert!
South Slope - Surprise dessert!
Prospect Heights- 4 pack of cupcakes
Crown Heights - Bottle of pink wine!
LIC - Surprise dessert!

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Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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http://www.mollyoliverflowers.com/

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