Today's Flowers
Wrapped and ready for quick pickup, stop by today and tomorrow for $15 wrapped bouquets featuring dahlias and lisianthus 💐
I will keep making them so you have plenty of options to choose from!
1886 15 mile Rd NE
Sparta, MI. 49345
Venmo in comments, or my cash box is out by the buckets. Thanks for purchasing local flowers!!
Yearly PSA on goldenrod (solidago) vs. Ragweed (demonspawn)
The pollen from Goldenrod is too heavy to become airborne. Although they blossom at the same time, Ragweed remains green, spewing out huge quantities of airborne pollen, while its louder but harmless neighbor gets the blame for your allergy attacks.
I use goldenrod in some of my fall bouquets because it has a beautiful color and really does scream "FALL!"
Just remember... the pollen falls down, too. It's just fine being used in floral arrangements, so cut away!
Stretched Thin
I don't know about you, but I feel that now that school is back in, I'm driving twice as much and my focus is SHOT.
I might be quiet on socials, but I'm busy creating! Now is a great time to get locally grown flowers, I have *buckets* ready to work with and I'm always excited to step away from my computer!
... Speaking of which, I spend no less than an hour communicating with brides each day over email and messenger this time of year. I'm creating recipes, crossing T's and drawing hearts, and ordering flowers!
Please message me or order on my website if you need flowers <3
www.rosieslittleposies.com
It's HOT!!
The flowers are loving it though!!
We don't just mark it up when you say it's for a wedding...
The communication, the formulation of recipes, and the prep... They all happen before the flowers come in.
Hard goods and buckets set up for this Friday's wedding happened TODAY, so that when I start with greenery tomorrow, I'm ready to process directly into the bucket sorted by recipe for each item.
On a spreadsheet a month ago, I broke down each item by flower types (recipe) and then multiplied, then added up to figure out how much to order.
Here's my coolers, all set up and ready to receive flowers locally grown, sourced from Kennicotts, and peonies from Alaska!
This is July
Need some flowers for your table? Let's do something lovely... Because you've earned it.
And yes... I usually have this many drinks going 😄
Boiled flowers
Yep... You've seen me spray paint flowers, you've seen me light them on fire, but I also boil them! Boiling the ends of poppies helps seal in the moisture inside the stems. They are very fragile flowers to begin with, and we want to make sure that they hold all day long on your wedding day.
Most of mine are done blooming now, but I had just a few that I could play with. I wanted to be fully confident in using them in my designs next week for a super bright and cheerful colored wedding!
Me: I'm going to pull way back on growing things and focus on design.
Also me:
.... Wait, I can skip starting seeds and just buy plugs?! *triples garden*
Just a few things about one of my favorite spring flowers, the anemone
