Fabled Flora (2025)

04/03/2025

Duck eggs from our little quackers now at the farm stand! (Flowers will be back in the next few weeks!)
Directions can be found here: https://www.fabledflora.com/farm-stand

17/02/2025

I’ve always been a terribly overwrought artist. 😂I’m just constantly struggling to find deeper meeting to everything that I do. (Over-thinker, much? 🙋‍♀️)

One day, I was talking to a friend who is an artist and I was asking her like what’s the point of doing this if it doesn’t have a profound idea? How do I figure out what that deeper meaning is?

And she just looked at me and said you know you don’t have to have it all figured out. You can just make the art.

I looked at her blankly.

And course, she’s right.

That’s the thing about art. It can be so much and also nothing at all. It’s so much about the context and the viewer.

And this is true about flowers as well. Floral design can mean deep connection to the present moment in nature or symbols of unknown grief. It could transform & transport you or just be goddamn pretty.

So rather than angsting over the meaning, I’m taking a step this year towards allowing the meaning to flow in and out and instead connecting with others about where they see meaning.

I wanna know which of which of the sentences above really resonate with you? Tell me down in the comments. 😘

10/02/2025

A few years ago, I read the incredible book, The Art of Gathering, by , it shed some light on how to reinvent the very ancient human activity of gathering for more meaning in our modern world. And as she put in a great interview with the podcast, We Can Do Hard Things, “As we are trying to birth a new world, we don’t have the rituals to match it so that people feel safe and connected to that world.”

I truly believe that the transformative nature of world-building starts with each of us - in our daily rituals and our momentous ones. So with that in mind, I offer this piece of writing, full of silly, intentional, and creative ways to build a world with a nature at the center. It’s called 50 Ways Nature Can Re-Enchant Your Gatherings (and Your Life). I hope you enjoy reading it, as much as I enjoyed writing it. You can find the link in my bio.

16/01/2025

Fancy schmancy plant sale for all you Port Townsend flower heads out there. Flowers plants and dahlia tubers! Saturday, March 22nd from 9-3pm at our farm.

Will likely include things like: sweet peas, violas, larkspur, briza, Icelandic poppies, foxglove, and more! These beauties were planted in the fall so they give you much earlier blooms.

Dahlia Tubers will include varieties like Terracotta, French Doll, Small World, Sweet Nathalie, Bracken Rose, Bloomquist Crave, Rose Toscano, Black Satin, and Castle Drive.

Can’t wait to share the bounty with y’all. DM me with any questions!

16/01/2025

Is it time for ice pops yet?

(Icelandic poppies. 😆)

13/01/2025

What do you stand for in 2025?

I’ve been thinking about this a lot as it looks like Meta is just bending the knee to our incoming president and taking off whatever reigns there might have been before on this platform to prevent hate speech and misinformation.

I’m not sure what I wanna do yet, but I just don’t think that I my content will be able to cut through the bullsh*t to have meaningful conversations and connect with my clients in such a space.

What are your thoughts about this? How are you connecting with your people that’s not on this platform?

Make sure to join my newsletter list if you wanna make sure to hear from me in the coming year! Who knows what’s gonna happen next.

(Photos by my pal who is braver than me and already plugged the plug on IG.👏)

05/01/2025

I don’t tell people as often as I should, but…

We grow all our dang flowers ourselves! All the flowers in your CSA bouquet, all the flowers in the farmstand, all the flowers in our customer arrange arrangements and 95% of the flowers in every one of our weddings come from our farm.

It is kind of amazing how many people don’t actually know or seem to care about this fact, but I want to shout it from the rooftops!

Farms matter. Small farms, matter a lot! And dammit, if we don’t spend our money with small farmers, they will not exist in the future.

How are you showing up for the small farms in your community? Join a CSA!

Winter and early spring are the times in which the financial burden of farming is high and cash flow is low. Joining a CSA means that you are giving your local farms a cash injection at the time that they need it most and that you get the best and most beautiful flowers or produce the following spring.

If you’re in the Seattle area and would like to join the .flora Spring Flower CSA, just click the link in our bio to sign up. Pick ups will happen in Phinney Ridge and in Capitol Hill this spring.

🥕 I’d also love to know about other fabulous CSAs in the area. What’s your favorite flower or veggie CSA? Let me know in the comments below.

21/12/2024

“One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light. It is necessary, while in darkness, to know that there is a light somewhere, to know that in oneself, waiting to be found, there is a light.” -James Baldwin

Happy solstice folks! See you in the light.

04/12/2024

🌸Are you planning a wedding or event and need locally grown, magical florals? Here is your roadmap to book full service wedding flowers with Fabled Flora.

The steps are:
1. Fill out our inquiry form. This form gives us a quick snapshot of your event and your floral dreams. All you need are a few basics, like how many guests you’re planning for and you’re expected floral budget. You can find this form in the link in our bio or at fabledflora.com/weddings

2. We book a consultation call. After receiving your inquiry, will send you a more detailed questionnaire to help clarify your vision then we’ll schedule a zoom call to chat, get to know each other, and discuss your event in detail.

3. We create a design proposal. I’ll put together a proposal for you with everything we talked about, including a concept board and a breakdown of what to expect for your florals. It’s more of a starting point than a done deal - it’s totally flexible! We can adjust it as much as needed right up until a month before your event. And don’t worry - I’m all about collaboration and happy to make changes along the way!

4. Finalize your booking. Once the design is finalized, will send over a contract for you to review and sign. Just return it with your deposit, and that’s it - your wedding florals are officially booked!

💙 In addition to full service weddings we also offer DIY, bulk buckets of flowers and à la carte wedding items like a bridal bouquets and boutonnières. Check out fabledflora.com for all the details. And of course send me an email or a DM if you have any questions.

📣 Our 2025 calendar is filling fast. Get in touch with us as soon as you can!

02/12/2024

Are you a person who is extremely affected by AMBIANCE?

Some people can sit an hard chair that makes a funny sound when you move in room lit by florescent lights and are completely unperturbed. 😳

And then there are people like me, who are constantly adjusting the light level, lighting candles, adding pillows and sheepskins for maximum coziness and rearranging the furniture every few weeks for new effect.

If you’re on team ambience, then prioritizing florals and candles for an event is vital. But what if you’re marrying somebody who doesn’t feel the same way?

I think making decisions jointly when you are married, starts with HOW you want to get married. There has to be some sense of shared vision and understanding. I think that you should be on basically the same page with your person about your budget and capacity.

But how you make it all happen within those constraints is why I am here to help. So just remember, you don’t have to have everything figured out BEFORE you talk to a florist. All you need is the mutual respect and understanding between you and your future partner about what money and time resources you can to commit to an event. That’s it! Everything else we can figure out together.

📣 I wanna know, are you obsessed with ambience like me? Do you have a partner who feels the same way? Or have you had to find a way to meet in the middle in your in your home?

📸 From a Scottish bothy inspired wedding installation at a historic picnic shelter on Marrowstone Island.

19/11/2024

Are you a do-er or a dreamer?

I think some people are permanently in one camp or another. Ahem.. my lovely father (dreamboat😆). Or some people are like me and swing back-and-forth depending on the season.

I am the fair weather do-er and foul weather dreamer. Right now we are in a kind of in-between moment, where there’s still so many things that need to be done out in the farm while the weather is foul. But I am dreaming of a dream winter where I can be cozy and plan for spring.

I was wondering for any dreamboats out there, if you would want to get together and do some garden dreaming this winter. Maybe we should have a winter rendezvous?

Garden books to peruse and seeds to swap? Cozy fire and drinks? DM me and let’s get to planning!

📸 by the truly singular

29/10/2024

Are you a Romantic? 💘

The Romantic era was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

It advocated for the importance of subjectivity, imagination, and appreciation of nature in society and culture in response to the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. They argued that passion and intuition were crucial to understanding the world, and that beauty is more than merely an affair of form, but rather something that evokes a strong emotional response. With this philosophical foundation, the Romanticists elevated among other things a reverence for nature and the supernatural.

(Can you tell I was an Art History major?!)

I think in this anxious, information overloaded, chaotic, ridiculous world we live in - a little Romanticism might do you good.

📸 by my fav 💘

18/10/2024

“Look, your whole life is a creative activity. People who say, “I don’t have a creative bone in my body,” it’s like you’ve… did you not choose the person that you married? That was an act of creativity. You had a creative vision of your future when you met this person. And you came together with them and you two are creating that, that’s creativity. Everything that you decide, everything that you surround yourself with, everything that you make is creativity.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

🤯 When you start thinking this way, you can’t stop! Every choice is an act of creativity. Every action item on your to do list an opportunity for world making.

I think about this a lot when I’m creating my physical spaces in my home and outdoor spaces. And recently I’m trying to be more engaged in dressing with creativity in mind.

🌀 Do you agree with Elizabeth Gilbert? Is every decision creative?

📸 Incredible Holga photos from farm visit this fall.

13/10/2024

I recently had the chance to really truly be seen in my messy, magical, imperfect self by the wonderful film photographer .

I have to admit there was long struggle to get myself here. We had booked the year previously and I totally chickened out. And then we tried again this summer and my husband got Covid that weekend and so we had to reschedule again. And of course, in between all of that, I had plenty of self-doubt and stress.

But I persevered, and even though it rained the whole time, Holly and I laughed and talked for hours and I truly enjoyed the whole experience. I highly recommend them for anyone looking for meaningful, heirloom style photos.

It was a great reminder that the hard things are worth doing. And also that special talents of an artist like a film photographer brings a depth and quality you just can’t find an iPhone photo.

09/09/2024

Happy anniversary to you two lovebirds. Perfectly dreamy Orcas island wedding two summer ago.

Florals by .flora
Photos by

07/09/2024

Late summer at the farm. I’m exhausted and Gooseberry can be the boss now. 🪿

13/08/2024

Blackberries and dried grasses. Summertime event bits and bobs.

If you know what the Pacific Northwest in late summer is like, you know what I’m talking about.

09/08/2024

It’s not really about the wedding. It’s about the marriage.

It might seem like a counterintuitive thing for a wedding florist to say, but I’m going to say it.

And every year on our wedding anniversary, I’m reminded. Our little wedding took place on the beach near our house with 12 guests and a communally-made meal. It was simple. And more importantly, our four years of marriage since have been simply the best.

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