Bell's Flowers ADK

11/15/2024

Sorry if I’ve been behind in email/proposals/inventory/bulb planting/dahlia tuber storage/social media management/seed keeping/and website updating - I am catching up with my best little flower helper and her papa who I feel like I have not seen or hung out with since… March? Sad to see the summer go, the fall go, and winter ahead. But glad to reunite with my little fam and take a minute to breathe/sleep/eat/leave the ADKs for tiny trips. Thank you for these amazing film photos of your adopted lil sis 🍊📷

And while I have your attention: ⏰ 📢 ☎️💸💣🧿💔TAKE FIVE MINUTES TODAY TO CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND DEMAND NOT ANOTHER BOMB ($20 BILLION WORTH OF BOMBS) BE SENT TO THE IDF TO DESTROY FAMILIES AND KILL/MAIME/STARVE CHILDREN JUST LIKE THIS ONE. Link in bio or below for an automated caller, script, background in what to say and why to your electeds to help end this before they vote next week: https://bit.ly/defund-genocide

10/11/2024

Our last wedding of 2024 will soon be through and we’ve got flowers that need a loving home! SO come on out THIS Monday October, 14th, 5-7:00 at 15 Broadway, Saranac Lake (the Adirondack Center for Writing space)to keep pressure on your elected officials, make your own bouquet, and raise funds for our friends in Gaza to afford daily necessities for 16 children and elders (Link in bio to donate & write your electeds).

If you haven’t come out yet this summer (or wow it’s actually fall) join P.S. Letters for a Ceasefire this Indigenous People’s Day and tell your representatives and candidates

Send donations, support, and prayers to our friend whose family we are working to support as much as possible 🙏🕊️🍉 Link in bio to donate, GIVE and SHARE virtually if you can’t make it in person. Also available here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-help-to-evacuation-from-gaza

09/16/2024

What a beautiful couple and beautiful weekend! Always great to work with our friends at The Bark Eater and to help bring some Adirondack magic to a client's special day.

08/25/2024

Is next week Labor Day already? Adirondack summers are so intensely short, it hurts this gardener’s heart. Growing this business has truly all been a ploy to plan, propagate, plant, cultivate, and compost flowers and enjoy all the pollinators along the way. This has been a season of experimentation, trying new approaches (wow, y’all been out here planting plugs this whole time? Thank you for showing me the light), reveling in native insects, small scale season extension infrastructure, and my many trusty zinnias with new varieties from and of course

Then it all goes back into the soil for next year, just like our fleeting Adirondack summers. Do I have it in me to go to one more county fair on my day off?

08/05/2024

08/05/2024

It’s August and we’re slinging flowers at Hex & Hop again to raise $ for our friends in Gaza who need to evacuate 16 children and elders the MINUTE the Rafah border opens. Come out TOMORROW TUESDAY AUGUST 6 5:30-8:30 to grab some fresh blooms and delicious brews in lovely Bloomingdale for a good cause. I’ll have a chance to harvest some from our own gardens too (FINALLY the High Peaks rewards the patient and diligent grower). And TONIGHT join and the rest of the community at PS Letter Writing for a Ceasefire to keep pressure on your elected “leaders” at the Adirondacks Center for Writing space at 15 Broadway, Saranac Lake. Send love, support, prayers, and donations to our friend whose family we are working to support as much as possible. Link in bio to donate, give and share virtually if you can’t make it in person. Let’s make this finally stretch to reach their goal!

07/04/2024

Join Bell's Flowers ADK this upcoming Saturday at .yes as we do another Make Your Own Bouquet fundraiser as part of the opening reception for show "Another World IS Possible." 12 - 4 pm, July 6th, the Station gallery and weekly summer weekend music festival is located at 1 Kushaqua-Mud Pond Road, Onchiota, NY 12989. Suggested donation for flowers $25 but we'll happily accept more to go to our friend to cover the MUCH INFLATED cost of day-to-day basic needs and the cost of passage out of Gaza. We'll have postcards to write to your elected officals guided by crafted resources as part of the ongoing actions.

SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL thanks to our talented and caring ADK flower farmer friends and for the donations and supply of beautiful, local, organic blooms. Link in bio to donate directly! If you have blooms to donate to such efforts - get at me!

07/01/2024

As many gorgeous local flowers as we could source from and (a few of our own in this harsh, harsh, harsh climate) with the rest from our brilliant, hardworking friends at I just want to take a minute to publicly scream from the rooftops that OUR TEAM IS AMAZING and worked SO HARD this week for TWO really amazing couples that we love, love, love!! Thank you both and (and - I am assuming - your new husbands as well) for putting your trust in our rag tag little team to bring your beautiful visions to life.

The folks who REALLY love flowers and plants and ecosystems and the environment seem to find their way to us here in the Adirondacks and our aim is to do our absolute best to express our own love for flowers, plants, the land, and people when we put these event flowers together. It really is a great honor to be involved in such a special day for folks and even more so when we share such passion for the environment. I’m so happy these couples are so happy with their amazing wedding days and wish everyone a gigantic “MAZEL TOV” from our team for today and the many years ahead. 🙏 🌸

06/26/2024

So many heavenly smelling roses from , peonies, mints, and campanula from , poppies and snapdragons from and many dogwood, raspberry, and, technically all of it, from nature. WOW I am so glad that heat wave passed, what a hard week to be a gardener and/or flower. I’m also happy to whip out these speckled ceramics - more 👏 ceramics 👏 Happy belated solstice and welcome to summer. .adk 10/10 will attract bees into your wedding tent!

06/09/2024

05/24/2024

We haven’t just been building and growing, there have been some designs coming out over the past few weeks too. I think my experiment of investing in spring bulbs is giving good results (and hello, last season’s strawflower). Never in my life have I appreciated daffodils so much, this geranium-narcissus is like a tiny fried egg work of art. The cremé upstar and margarita tulips from I think are my clear front runners for color, texture, and versatility in designs.

Now that I’ve got some proof of concept (because I don’t trust my semi-newly adapted zone 4 lifestyle) this upcoming fall I may just go crazy with some bulk bulbs… don’t even have my seedlings and plugs in the ground and I am mentally six months in the future.

05/21/2024

04/16/2024

Believe it or not, we’re going to make this cute. The new home of Bell’s Flowers coming soon, Spring 2024!

04/14/2024

Got these handful of Oregon native Camas quamash home in one piece - just a couple of car rides from the Willamette Valley to the central Coast, up to PDX on a very delayed cross country flight, to a couple of stops in Queens, then finally up to the Adirondacks. Totally normal plant hoarding behavior thanks to the help of .b.reed

04/02/2024

Please don’t make me go back to snow ❄️

03/30/2024

.adk is Out of Office (in Oregon)