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Blue House Blooms, 1328 Crown Hill Rd, Orrville, OH (2024)

07/21/2024

From one cart to the next. From one heart to the next.

Sunday funday flowers. Come get em.

07/17/2024

I don't want to get on a soap box but apparently I'm feeling kinda sudsy about Amazon Prime Day this year.

I'm a marketing major. That doesn't mean I don't fall for marketing schemes...but Amazon Prime Day is simply that. A way to push sales in the slow money making months. (Honestly, it's probably slower moving product months because more people are outside...where you need less stuff... you can just enjoy nature...and it's beauty, and take walks, etc.). I'm not sure if we're really saving money by spending it on things we didn't necessarily need in the first place...just to get the deal....

But I guess what really bothers me about Amazon is that you can just buy everything with one click, and you have NO IDEA who made it, where it's coming from, or what that purchase means to someone on the other side...most likely because there is not someone on the other side. So I guess today I'm reminding you....that when you get flowers from Blue House Blooms...there's a girl with frizzy hair, annoying upper 20's acne, pale skin, rainbow polka dot rain boots, dirt stained knees & nails, but an incredibly grateful smile when you support us.

With all that said, even though I could probably make a huge case for why spending your money on fresh cut flowers from the local flower stand would be a more fulfilling way to spend some cash & be better for your mental health, I don't want to be another marketing scheme...so today all the flowers are free. Seriously, take them home. Don't worry about the cost. Just enjoy them. Don't feel guilty about spending money on things you don't need...because you don't NEED flowers. (we all NEED groceries & holy cow why are they so expensive?!)Anyway...I know it's an incredible honor when you decide to spend your money on them. But I can speak first hand about the joy they bring people...and I just feel like the products & peopleless purchases from Amazon can't promise you a better day.

Welp...my soap bar is gone so I'll get off the box. To lighten the mood...apparently it's also world emoji day (LOL...what has our world come to)...but comment 5 emojis that describe your life right now. I'll start.
🐶🌻🏐🎠📚

07/16/2024

Flower stand restock!!! Run, don't walk🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

It's the debut of dahlias for the season 💜 and you can find some super cool new things in there - love in a puff 💚, bells of Ireland 💚, carnations ♥️🤍, some butterfly snapdragons (the ones with the frilly petals compared to the typical dragon faces) ♥️, and of course a strong strong showing of sunflowers 💛.

Happy Tuesday 💙

07/02/2024

Blue House Blooms is officially open for business! 💙

Year 3! 🥳

In case you're new around here - a few rules of the road:
- Bottom shelf bouquets are $10, top shelf bouquets are $15
- We accept cash, check, or Venmo
- If possible, please return the vase/jar (this helps us keep our costs down & creates a unique bouquet every time)
- We have 2 driveways that you can park in & a sidewalk to get to the cart. One driveway is on Crown Hill Rd, one on Hostetler Rd. !Please do not park on the road!!
- Resin art made with flowers from the garden are $10/piece
- We love to get to know you & see you sharing or enjoying our flowers - feel free to leave a note at the cart with the paper provided, or post/share a picture tagging us!

Thank you for blessing me by enjoying the beautiful blooms! Because of you, we've been able to do this for 3 years (swipe to see opening day 2022 & 2023).

Grateful for you! Have a good day! 🌸🌻🌼

07/01/2024

This could be you tomorrow 💖 🥳 🌻

It's the week of freedom, fireworks, and flowers 🇺🇸🎇💐

3️⃣🔹️2️⃣🔹️1️⃣ BLOOM SEASON is about to BOOM! 💥🧨💙

05/29/2024

Some sunshine following the rain today ☀️

05/20/2024

Brushin' Blooms 🌼

If you’ve never had the opportunity to create while surrounded by the beauty of God’s creation, I would like to invite you to my garden for a sweet time of flowers, watercolor painting, and a time of scripture reflection.

What: a private event for your group to reflect on God’s creation through a devotional then creation of bouquets and watercolor art in the Blue House Blooms garden.

What is provided: One bouquet, art supplies, and light refreshments

Who: Natalie of Blue House Blooms and Julie Horner (watercolor artist) will host your group of 6-8 people

When: Evening and weekend time slots available August-September

Where: Blue House Blooms Garden in Orrville

Pricing: $55/person (a minimum of 4 people needed to book an event)

Contact: dm Natalie on Instagram

I met Julie with Little & Inches through a giveaway earlier this year. I immediately loved her work & in meeting her, we connected over our passion for the Lord, creativity, and of course, coffee! When I told her my idea, I loved her willingness to work together and learn new things.

The two of us are partnering together to offer an event in the Blue House Blooms garden later this summer. This event would not be open to the public, but rather an opportunity for small groups to reserve a time for a structured event. This event has three portions: a short devotional time, an opportunity to pick a bouquet and learn more about floral arranging with Natalie, and a painting lesson with Julie Horner – art supplies will be provided.

If this is something that would interest you, please comment below, or contact Natalie to book an event this summer!

05/19/2024

Good News from the garden! Friends, Fun, Free things & a Fun Announcement!
1. Everything is in. YAY. WOW. WHOA. Just a few more things to direct seed but I’m calling this a win! Couldn’t have done it without my friends!
2. See all the colorful cutlery in the ground? Those are plastic spoons, knives & forks! I took some creative liberties when labeling my dahlias. I did not plant all the same kind in a row, I made it completely chaotic so hopefully its colorful! And that’s just fun!
3. The open box of potato looking things…those are dahlia tubers…and all the little white sprouts from them…means they were successfully divided & stored. Last year, storage was a major struggle for me & this year we got it right!
4. After last years storage fail, people were incredibly generous to me. That is something I love about the small business/Instagram community.
5. Special S/O to a kind couple who was most recently overly generous with me. Kevin & Sue Hennis of Cloverland Farms Greenhouse have an incredible operation in Holmes County. I spent hours learning about their business – so.inspiring. There is always room for more people at the table, and there is always room for more plants…right Kevin?
6. SO – this is especially good news for you – to pay forward the generosity of others & celebrate the success of dahlia storage, I am giving away 2 tubers to the first 18 people to comment a piece of good news they have heard recently! (18 is my favorite # & we got everything done on the 18th!) 😊 (Local pickup only) (& these are ones I did nottttt label well last year so I’m calling them “surprises!”) Let’s hear it!
7. Date night Friday was rock climbing. We tried new things, didn’t hurt ourselves & got Chick-fil-a.
8. Fun announcement coming tomorrow (1 of our date nights from earlier this year is a hint at the announcement)…
9. It’s absolutely gorgeous today! Soak up some sunshine!

05/18/2024

Ok, I shared how I can’t control what happens, I wanted to share the second half of that story which is sharing how I can control my happiness…

It was a steady rain last Thursday that sent me into a complete spiral. On Wednesday, my mom & I spent 3 hours in the garden planting 103 dahlias (to be exact). On Thursday, I was short-tempered, stressed out, and sad about the possibility of losing my dahlias. I lived the whole day like I had already lost them. (As noted – lots of rain before dahlias sprout increases the possibility of them rotting).

By Friday night, the soil wasn’t saturated, it had basically dried out. The outcome looked hopeful that my dahlias would be healthy.

This is how anxiety plays itself out in my mind. I spin the worst-case scenarios over & over in my mind. I fool myself into thinking that I’ve planned & prepared for the worst. But, what I’ve done is create a disaster of waste & wreckage. Not just by adding worry, but by not recognizing the good, and removing the good in me. I’m so afraid of losing something that makes me think I’ll lose everything, but really, I’ve lost everything in the idea that I’ll lose something. I lose the ability to connect to my surroundings, my supportive friends, things that make me smile & the simple things.

Sitting in the sun the next day was the first time the truth of this scenario slapped me in the face. In July, if my dahlias don’t come up, I would be no less sad then, because I was sad now. I thought anticipating what I would feel & feeling it then would make me it easier when AND IF something happened. But it won’t. I’d be sad then too. And I’d be a double dose because I’d have lost what I actually lost & I’d have lost all I let go of or let pass. Anxiety tricked me into thinking it was preparation.

If live afraid of losing, I will lose. I will lose sight of God, His love & I won’t have stories & scenarios of His faithfulness, goodness, nearness, kindness, lightness to hold on to. When I live in fear, my actions are driven by the need to avoid pain rather than achieve pleasure. John 10:10: “The thief comes to steal, kill & destroy, I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”

05/17/2024

The weather has been unpredictable, confusing & frustrating the last month. If you look at my “screen time” tracker, it logs Weather as my most used app for weeks. I’ve opened Weather like I’m addicted to it. Clearly, I’m addicted to control…or it just feels like something I can actively do instead of be anxious. Newsflash – it’s not. The times I watched the radars, the rain amount we’re supposed to get, the wind speed during a storm, has not changed ANYTHING. And most of the time, it hasn’t stormed, rained, or even been cloudy. And guess what? I’ve been sad (?) about that? I’ve been frustrated at God because I prepared for the worst, and then He gave me something better? WHOA.

To add to this dynamic…some dahlias have been planted & they shouldn’t get rain yet because it increases potential for rot, but I have direct seeded some flowers, and they need rain to germinate & grow. I texted one of my fellow dahlia growers in the middle of my weather worrying & he said, “it’s nature, it’ll work.” 😊 I’m just rephrasing it a bit to say, “it’s God, He’ll make it work.”

Let nature take its course & let God do His thing. It’s just an illusion that I’m in control anyway. By watching the green bubble of rain on the radar move across the state, I’m not ACTUALLY moving the green bubble… I can be proactive to prepare before or I can problem-solve after but there is NOTHING I can do in the middle that will benefit me. So, I’ve prepared by putting tarps on/off my dahlias to defend the rain, I’ve responded to the rain by still keeping my sprouts alive inside, and I’m working on placing the rest in God’s hands. Once I do that, I can focus even more of my energy on pleasing Him, prioritizing others, and having peace in knowing that I’ve done that best I could.

God sees the big picture. We got married outside, so of course, I didn’t want rain. My dad reminded me that at the same time I was praying for no rain, a farmer out there was praying for rain. I’ve thought about that a lot. God takes care of all of us how & when we need it. He will provide what we need when we need it.

So, this is what a sunrise in the garden looks like these days. Not what I planned, but still pretty.

05/16/2024

I’ve been a little MIA on social media the past month or so…1. It could be because my garden is currently just dirt & hope 😊 or 2. It could be because I have a lot to say but I’m scared to say it…(hint – it’s the second option).

May is Mental Health Month & hear this – sometimes I hate those words too. Yes, there IS a stigma about mental health, and even though I already told you guys around Easter I have been struggling with some somewhat severe anxiety, I don’t like being labeled or labeling myself as anxious. I know not everyone can relate, but some can, maybe just one. I know not everyone with understand, but some will. I have found this to be a caring, generous, and gracious community, so by writing – I want to reflect, ponder, remember, grow, challenge myself, and *hopefully* help someone else. So, I have a lot to say. As I work my butt off to beat anxiety, the BEST way I process anything, is to pair it to a real-life example of something to do with my garden. And, every story includes God. Because God is with this girl in the garden. Looking back (& forward), I 100% believe God gave me a love for flowers & gardening so that it would be the battleground for me to overcome & get back to who God made me. (as Josiah reminded me, God did NOT make me anxious, God made me creative, courageous, empathetic, encouraging, excitable – but that’s a sneak peek at a story from another day…)

Anyway, this is just me popping in to say, hey – I’m here. As my mug says, this is a reminder to “Bee Kind”. Some people’s struggles are more “silent”, but we should never struggle in solitude. Please note, this BHB feed will not be filled with selfies with messy bathroom counters & showers in the background, but it will be full of reflection 😉, honesty, and stories from the slushy, struggle-bus, stormy garden, as well as the shiny, shimmery, successful one. Hope you all stick around! There is so much to come!

05/11/2024

Aurora borealis over Blue House Blooms. Deserved a permanent spot in my feed, certainly has a permanent spot in my memories. Amazing. Awestruck. AWEsome.

05/08/2024

A blank slate. So much potential & so many possibilities. It's a beautiful, dry day in May in Ohio. We're ready for dirt, dramatic flower flare, and to see flowers fill your days.

Season 3 of Blue House Blooms. It all starts.... TONIGHT!

(Feels like I just wrote a commercial of the bachelor... 🙈) BUT I'm excited for flowers this summer!!
Who's with me? 🙋‍♀️

04/24/2024

Just wanted to send you all some "post" cards 📬

04/18/2024

Let me share a story from earlier this month when I found myself drowning in an ocean of to-dos. Feeling overwhelmed, I sought solace at the kitchen table, hoping my husband would help me navigate the chaos in my mind. But instead of diving into the lists, he whisked me outside and handed me a bucket of chalk. 😲

As I hesitated, he reminded me that life doesn't have to be so serious all the time. With his encouragement, I started doodling my to-do list on the pavement, adding color and creativity to each task. Then, he challenged me to assign numbers from 1 to 3 based on their importance. And you know what? It worked like magic. ✨

That night, Josiah taught me a valuable lesson in finding joy in simplicity and slowing down, feeling liberated & free to let go of the rush & pressure of responsibilities and return to a childhood sense of whimsy & wonder.

In the midst of our busy lives, our minds often feel cluttered, and overwhelmingly full. But as I read Ephesians 3, I'm reminded that God desires for us to be filled to the measure of all His fullness, not with the weight of endless tasks and responsibilities. 💖

God gives us power to manage our lives, make moves, take control of our minds. But He doesn't give us power to be IN control. We're still a child of God. Being led & loved so greatly & deeply. A child isn't weighed down by responsibilities & running around. They are freed by running to their Father & finding fun in the simple.

Chalk has become my reminder to embrace my inner child, to transport back to a time where creativity knew no bounds, and the chaos was controlled by someone so much bigger than me.

So somedays, you might catch me doodling flowers on our driveway, rewriting my to-do list, or even jotting down prayer requests. And this summer, I'm thinking of leaving chalk out for others to join in the fun – because flowers, in all their forms, can bring freedom and joy. 🌼✨

04/16/2024

🌷💪 Embrace Your Tuesday Toughness! 💪🌷

Remember: tulips are tough, just like YOU!

Flashback to when the deer devoured my tulips two years in a row – down to the nub! 🦌 But guess what? THIS YEAR, my tulips are thriving! 🌷💥 Relocated them last fall, and now they're surprising me with bursts of color amid the bushes.

I usually keep my spring flower joy to myself (however to be fair its been spring sorrow the past 2 years)... but I couldn't resist sharing these beauties with you in photo form. 😉📸 And guess what? I just learned that tulips open and close! Who knew, right? 😂

Lesson learned: life's surprises keep us humble and curious. So, next time you're comparing your life to Instagram, remember: there are folks out there Googling flower behavior....Embrace what makes you uniquely interesting – even if it's your curiosity about how flowers open and close! 💡😄 🌷💫

04/08/2024

What I imagine the Eclipse is going to look like in a couple hours...but in flower form🌻 Be the bright spot in someone's day today ☀️

04/07/2024

Growing up, I spent alot of free time making floor plans & looking at paint chip color palettes...I always wanted to be an interior designer. Well, I didn’t grow up to be an interior designer, but I'm starting to think I grew up & became an exterior designer...?! Instead of drawing floor plans in my free time, I now draw flower plans...instead of drawing my dream bedroom, now I draw my dream Bloom Room. Maybe our interests as little kids really do lead us down a path, even if it looks different than we thought?...except when I wanted to be a dentist...I don’t think that led anywhere...(except for 26 yrs strong in the no cavity club 🦷) I digress...

So yes it was a sunny Sunday spent outside 🌞 organizing seeds to direct sow, starting the last 3 trays of seeds inside, and making plans for the places all the flowers will go!

I had a few adjustments to make:

🌻last year I grew the sunflowers along the back row which blocked the sunrise - cant have that

🌼 planning a whole row of rudebekia next to the yarrow that came back from last year so I can have a perennial patch in the garden

🌱 growing a few more greens this year so needed to make some space for them...

🌸 other than that, just replaced what I didn’t like last year with my new finds for this year!

🪟 oh & put zinnias up front so I can see them from my kitchen window 😍

Flower season is coming soon ✨

04/03/2024

New month. New followers. New flower season. Same me! But...I realize some of you may not know much about me so in the spirit of this or that trends...I thought I'd share some of my own, with some pictures for fun! You can play along in my stories or comment below what we have in common - I'd love to get to know you too!

🎄Real or fake Christmas tree (grew up fake, now real, won't go back)
Hot cocoa or coffee ☕ (recent convert)
City or country 👩‍🔧 (lived in Nashville for 2 years - loved it but nothing beats small town livin'!)
🌻Flower or vegetable garden (I mean come on...)
📔Books or movies (historical fiction is my jam)
✝️Easter or any other holiday
🗻Mountains or beach
👠Dress up or dress down
🐶Dog or cat (our pups name is Milk Dud)
⛺️Camping or cruise
Siblings or only child 🧍‍♀️(gained 4 brothers by getting married)
🚗Drive or ride
🌅Sunrise or sunset
Neutrals or colorful 🌈 (someday I dream of a blue house w/ a yellow front door)
Thunderstorm or snowstorm❄️ (looks like this week we get both!)

I'm an event planner by day, flower planter by morning or night. I've been married to my HS sweetheart for 2.5 years. Our last name is Ramseyer but before that I was a Swift so I used to get asked if I was related to Taylor Swift, now I get asked if I'm related to the potato people...(if you're local you'll understand).

Hope you enjoyed some fun facts about me & I can't wait to see you during flower season!

03/30/2024

The day in between death and resurrection. Gloomy & grieving. Being afraid of death, or of someone dying, is a very real feeling. I have been walking through a battle with anxiety for a couple of years now, and often, my suffocating & scary thoughts are around those of death. Sometimes, it’s from disease or destruction, sometimes devastating circumstances, sometimes absurd scenarios I make up in my head. The possibilities of scary situations can make me want to stay at home, locked in where it feels “safe”. I’m not alone in these feelings…maybe you experience similar anxiety, I know the disciples did. John 20:19 says that “the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear”…they were afraid of what happens after death. But in the very next verse, it says, “Jesus came and stood among them”. Jesus didn’t break in, he broke through. He broke through their fear, doubts, lies. Jesus’ death was scary. There was weight, worry, waves of tears and fear. This is common when we fear someone else’s’ death, but sometimes the fear is about our own. But just like Jesus’ death is not scary to us today… we don’t sit in the weight of the fear of His death, or ours. We know what Sunday brings. His resurrection wrote our name in the Book of Life. I’ve often thought of Heaven as sorta scary…but I think that’s because I don’t know what to expect. Heaven can feel scary since we can’t possibly comprehend something better or more beautiful than the best place we’ve ever been. We can’t possibly imagine there being a garden bigger, brighter, and more in bloom than we’ve ever seen. We only have this world to compare it to…BUT, with Scripture, I know that Heaven will have incredibly fruitful & flowering gardens…Isaiah 35:2, “Like the crocus, it will burst into bloom; it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy.” I’ve worked hard for my garden to be what it is. But what’s incredible is I don’t have to work to have a place in the BEST GARDEN EVER. I don’t have to travel to the tulip fields in Holland (although I hope to)…I just have to put my hope in the Holy One.

03/29/2024

I was listening to a podcast (shoutout Couple Things Pod) and the couple being interviewed mentioned the idea of the "seed principle"...that something must die before
something can live...I was stopped in my tracks. The idea of the seed principle has been on my mind for weeks....my mind immediately went to sunflowers and that the death of one sunflower leads to the life of SO MANY MORE SUNFLOWERS. This pile of sunflower seeds you see is just from one jumbo sunflower that died. And in its death, so many sunflowers were given life.

What an example to ponder on Good Friday. A death...that led to so much life. As we sit in the day of darkness, the day of death...may we await with eager anticipation, all the life that death brings. 🌻

03/28/2024

🌼🌙 Embracing Midnight Seed Starting Madness! 🌱✨

As mid-March rolls around, the anticipation of flower season reaches its peak! But behind the scenes, there's a whole world of midnight seed starting, tray watering, and awakening dahlias that sets the stage for the colorful burst of summer ahead. 🌸💫

It's not all dreamy garden glows and rainbow blooms; sometimes, it's about getting down and dirty under the harsh glow of garage lights, working with tiny seeds and dirt caked hands. In my stained sweatshirt, standing at my husband's workbench at midnight, it's a far cry from the picturesque garden scenes we imagine.

Yet, in those late-night moments, there's a promise that dances in my mind—a promise of future blooms waiting to burst forth. I envision myself picking those blossoms in the early morning light, wearing shorts in my little "bloom room." 🌅🌺

So here's to the gritty, behind-the-scenes work that sets the stage for summer's magnificent display. It might not be glamorous, but it's where the magic truly begins. Embracing the journey from garage lights to garden delights! ✨️

P.S. who else feels like those blue seeds are perfectly BHB appropriate?

03/24/2024

Taking you on a trip around the house to see green things 💚 the best thing about spring is the surprises! I completely forgot that I transplanted my tulips from the garden to the landscaping out front to save them from the deer. Also transplanted daffodils & put them where I can see them better in front of the shed.
Also so excited to see what looks like a big patch of weeds in the garden is yarrow that I left there from last year. It's a perennial so it was supposed to come back but I forgot that I had the foresight to not till it under &&& that hopefully means faster flowers. Same with the feverfew..I didn't do a good job discarding of its mess from last year but it's clearly coming back & the 2nd year of feverfew is supposed to be the best! Also some healthy sedum coming back. Andddddd some sunflowers sprouting unexpectedly. They probably won't last because they like the warmth but it's fun to see them so soon! Plus they're probably just trying to soak in all this Ohio sun like me 🌞

Thats the focus for this week - soaking in the spring sunshine 💛 thankful for the reminder that things are working even when we can't see them & that I should plant more perennials....

03/20/2024

The fact that the sun is just now setting, it was cotton candy colored, I picked these daffodils, and it's the first day of spring has me feelin' some type of way ✨️

03/14/2024

We've been so blessed with clear, colorful skies & sunrises lately. I have a bad habit of needing to capture all of them on camera. Looking back at them, I think it's so cool you can see the seasons change through the sunrise. Yesterday I was at a women's networking event & the speaker challenged us to think about events in our life that forced a disruption or change in our lives. And then to think about one positive thing from that change. As I pondered that, it made me think of sunrises. Depending on the season, the sunrise can be filled with wispy, friendly clouds, or it can be filled with a thick fog like cloud that the sun can't peak through. But, the sun is always there. And the sky, whether cloud filled or clear blows me away with its beauty *most* of the time.

The speaker also challenged us to think about 5 years from now. The sky's the limit...dream big - where would you be & what would be important? I dreamed of a house on some new land of ours, where I know the porch will face the sunset. And truly, sky's the limit, what would I be doing...I'd have a huggeeeee flower garden, lining both sides of our driveway & I'd sit on my front porch with friends often, watching the sky change colors & the seasons change.

When we eventually build a house & I don't have this view anymore, I'll be thankful for the pictures & I'll look for the positive in the change... that I'm still watching the sky & working for the one who paints it.

I guess there's my Thursday morning thoughts. Enjoy your day!

03/04/2024

Part 2 of my planting seeds thoughts from this weekend talks pride...I have been STRUGG-A-LING with pride the past couple of weeks. I want to be acknowledged, appreciated, know what I'm going through or what I'm up to. Thinking all these things have definitely not been my proudest moments (funny how pride doesn't make you feel proud 🤷‍♀️) As I mentioned yesterday, the seeds take weeks to germinate. Even when they do, and you can see them, no one appreciates them until they're beautiful & out in the world. Think about how much work they did under that soil, in the darkness of my basement, how much change they went through before you even noticed them. That whole time they were working for the glory of God (at least I think so because no human can make something that unique & beautiful). You didn't even notice them until they did something for you. In their beauty, they have done their job, which is to point to the Higher Power or to serve a person.

So, in Matthew 6 "2 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you." Again in verses 6 & 18 "Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you." So, what I've learned from these hard-working, behind-the-scenes seeds is that your work is for an audience & applause of one, that is the only acknowledgement & appreciation that matters, and that will keep you growing.

It's also in Matt. 6 v. 28 where it says “See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin." I'm a worrier so I always took this verse to mean not to worry about things going on in our world, or whatever happens next, but reading it in the full chapter context, I also think it means not to worry about your work...and who will see your labor & spinning...and how fitting that its using the metaphor of flowers. 🌻

03/02/2024

Lots of thoughts as I start some seeds this weekend so this may be part 1 of 2.

Each seed packet has on it a germination rate. Germination, by definition, is the development of a plant from a seed or spore after a period of dormancy, or the process of something coming into existence and developing. For most seeds, this is between 7-14 days I'd say. So...after I plant these seeds in these seed trays, it can be a couple weeks until I start to see anything from that.

I'm two weeks into a new job, and I've already had to remind myself multiple times that I'm going to take a couple weeks to germinate...to start developing, to start emerging as my true self in a new environment, to be patient in the development of new skills & relationships.

In case you didn't know, you must start the seeds in damp soil so that during the beginning stage of germination, the seeds can take up water. This results in swelling and softening of the seed coat and starts the growth process by activation of enzymes. To eventually start growing, we have to rid of our outer hard shell of biases, fears, insecurities, and honestly, our appreciation for comfort and begin to soften and remove those things in order to thrive in a new environment.

Seeds are tough. Seeds are starters. Seeds are imperative to getting a flower.
But with germination, seeds are transformed. Seeds are reminded of who they are & who they can become.

Blue House Blooms