Honeysuckle Hollow Florist

11/11/2024

A few weeks ago, I enjoyed such a fun afternoon of creativity, friendship, and flowers with Jenna Cook of Clovergold Flower Farm at her place. we each decided to create fall table scapes, and then style them, and Jenna was kind enough to photograph them. It was windy outside, but we snuck into one of her old farm sheds and found a quiet place to work. For the afternoon. Jenna made a tablescape full of local items she found growing around the farm even after a big frost. Lots of milkweed and yellow asparagus fern. Just beautiful. I had ordered some flowers in from California, for some turning oak leaves near my home and found some interesting seed pods to use in mine. I brought a carload full of place settings and things to style our tables with and we got to work. It was a nice chance to mock-up some ideas for what I will be offering for Thanksgiving on our website (I put the link below in case anyone still needs to order-deadline is Friday!) I can’t thank Jenna enough for her beautiful photography and for her continued friendship and inspiration.

Here is the link to our website if you still need to place an order…. Arrangements, plants, leaves and heirloom squashes available !

http://www.honeysucklehollowflorist.com/thanksgiving-2024

11/11/2024

This year we are offering smaller, textural centerpieces for Thanksgiving so there will be plenty of other room on your table for food, candles and conversation. Have a long table though? Just order multiple of these little beauties to set down it for maximum fall wow factor. We also have other fun items available to scatter down your tables to create a truly memorable Thangiving set up this year… heirloom squashes, beeswax dipped leaves, and interesting houseplants . Jump over to our webshop and check it out. Items available for pickup and delivery on November 27th. Here is the link…

http://www.honeysucklehollowflorist.com/thanksgiving-2024

Photo by Clovergold Flower Farm

11/11/2024

We just loaded some more Thanksgiving quantities on our webshop so if you are needing some natural beauty for your tables this year, jump over to our website and place your orders! Pickup or delivery available on Wednesday November 27th.

Click this link to head to our webshop … ordering deadline is Friday the 15th.

http://www.honeysucklehollowflorist.com/thanksgiving-2024

Photos by Clovergold Flower Farm

08/11/2024

Thanksgiving is just around the corner 🍂🦃 and we have put together a fun assortment of nature-inspired decor for your tables . These items are now available for ordering through our webshop (click the link below to take you there ) . We will have low textural arrangements, beeswax dipped fall leaves, black futsu squashes, and houseplants in baskets. It’s a fun chance to be creative by ordering one or more of these items and setting up a unique and truly memorable table for your guests this year.

Here is the link to our webshop to order… Quantities are limited so get your orders in soon!

http://www.honeysucklehollowflorist.com/thanksgiving-2024

Shoutout to Jenna Cook of Clovergold Flower Farm for taking these photos of my Thanksgiving mock-ups! I think they turned out really beautiful

06/11/2024

It’s time to order your nature-inspired Thanksgiving table decor!

Here is our newsletter with all the details 🍂 I hope you enjoy the fun options we have put together for you.

Thank you again to Jenna Cook at Clovergold Flower Farm for these beautiful photos for the newsletter and website

Check out the Thanksgiving floral offerings from Honeysuckle Hollow Florist!

15/10/2024

Anyone up for an impromptu workshop this Saturday? I will be taking just 4 people with me to our farm down near Hornick, Iowa where we will forage for all sorts of prairie grasses and seed pods. We will enjoy an hour or more getting the opportunity to be outdoors and collect the bounty of our field that is planted with all sorts of prairie grasses. I love going here every year and cutting a carload of fall goodies to use in my designs so I thought I would open the experience up to a few nature lovers . After we load up as much as we want, we will head back for lunch at the flower House and I will be teaching an easy to learn method for creating a fall prairie wreath! This will be a fun day spent celebrating fall splendor. Class is limited to 4 people . $95 includes transportation, lunch, materials and instructions for making your own fall grass wreath! Message me or call/text Mercedes at 712-251-9922 if you are interested. First come first serve. Can’t wait to spend the day together creating!

15/10/2024

23/09/2024

After more than a year of planning a very special wedding for a bride in Storm Lake, Jenna Clovergold Flower Farm and I joined together to create some really artistic, farm-fresh florals . This bride hired to custom-grow her flowers special just for her wedding and were they ever amazing! The purple, dusky mauve, golden color palette was such a unique and gorgeous take on fall. After the bride shared her ideas for a general color scheme,  took to pouring over seed catalogues last fall to pick out exactly what she would grow for us to use in the bride’s wedding. What an incredible, bespoke wedding flower concept🌸 It took a ton of thoughtful planning, hard work and artistic design to pull this off and I can’t think of anyone I would rather collaborate with on this than Jenna Clovergold Flower Farm

All the glorious blooms that we used for this wedding were grown exclusively by with the exception of a handful of dahlias from Furrow Flower Farm in Sioux City. All these gorgeous blooms were bursting with vibrant freshness having been picked literally the morning we begin arranging. In fact, we picked flowers almost every day directly from the fields to work with whenever we needed some extra fill-in. The ritual of sunrise and sunset picking was one of the many perks of producing a large wedding directly onsite at a flower farm. This willl go down in the books as having been a truly special event week.

We put in long hours arranging out underneath a maple tree with chickens and ducks to keep us company. I thoroughly enjoyed the creative talent and kind personality of Jenna and couldn’t be happier with what we made together. We didn’t get nearly enough photos in our dash to get it all done but we are hopeful for some amazing professional photos of the event to share in the future. This family went all out putting together a beautiful wedding and we hope the happy couple had an extraordinary day ❤️

I also want to give a little shout out to Maddie for coming yo help us and to Etta for housing me in her lovely barn apartment.

12/09/2024

Well it’s been FOREVER since I have made an actual post here besides sharing my stories all summer. It’s time to get back in the swing of sharing some of my wonderful floral adventures so I thought this would be a fun place to start!!! A couple weekends ago I had a blast doing flowers for a vintage circus/freakshow themed dance party here in Sioux City . This amazing collaboration with Katie Sullivan and her wildly creative event planning skills resulted in … well to be honest…a hell of a party !!! That’s an understatement 🎪💯. The other vendors are listed below and deserve a serious shout out for helping to make this event what it was.

As always, I love to embrace a good theme and came to the event dressed up in a riff on a vintage clown outfit 😂 And yes, that is me standing next to the stiltwalker 😂😂😂😂😂. I look like a baby for Pete’s sake 🤪. This just shows you what fun we all had with this party. I made all sorts of crazy, whimsical, colorful circusy-themed florals created with all the summer’s best locally grown blooms from right here in Sioux City (thank you Furrow Flower Farm , Living Treasures Flower Farm, Wynns Tomato Ranch, A Bloom and a Prayer LLC, and all the other people who helped grow these amazing flowers). I did buy a few stems from other places like the Oregon-grown gloriosa lilies that screamed circus to me!!! See the photos below with them in the caption to see which ones they are. They were such crazy blooms that I haven’t had the chance to work with in years. Sooo cool!!!

I’m sure I will look back on this event as one of the most creative, crazy adventures of the year. Thank you to my wonderful client who hosted the party and invited my husband and I because we had the most fun dancing the night away to the Georgia Bridgwater orchestra after a busy week of prep. And huge thanks to my Honeysuckle Hollow flower helpers Cynthia Moser and Maddie McCreadie …as always, I couldn’t do it without your help!!!

Other vendors from the party were:
Katie Sullivan
Ideal Tent & Event Rentals
Jer Events
Eyenoticed Abby & Adam Photo
Georgia Bridgwater orchestra

You all outdid yourselves!!!

I am looking forward to sharing many of the other fun adventure in flowers we have been part of lately here at Honeysuckle Hollow as I finally start compiling photos from the last few months. Thanks for all the love and support of our little flower studio 😘😘😘🌸

12/05/2024

Happy Mother’s Day 💕 Thank you to everyone who choose Honeysuckle Hollow to send your messages of love to all those special Mamas this year ❤️🌷. I had a wonderful week creating spring beauty in the studio and can’t thank all my helpers enough for making it happen! .t16 .ivener . We hope all our customers are enjoying their blooms this morning !

Yesterday, after the last flowers had been delivered, I was able to run up to the North High tennis courts and watch my son Cale and his team play the last matches of the school season. Just sitting and laughing with my husband and kids in the sunshine on a perfect spring day and cheering on our boy was the best Mother’s Day gift possible . Simply sitting down and taking it all in with a full heart. What I know as a mother is that it’s these moments of togetherness and connection that really matter. Not always all the instagrammable presents and posed family photos… just these true, simple moments of love and motherhood that mean the most to me💕

01/05/2024

🌸🌸🌸Last few hours to get your Mother’s Day orders in! After selling out of a few of the items on the Webshop, I searched out a few more blooms from suppliers and loaded a few extra items into the shop to help everyone get flowers for their mamas that want a Honeysuckle Hollow creation on May 11th! Ordering closes at midnight tonight though so jump over to the webshop (link below) and get yours if you haven’t already! We can’t wait for the mountain of flowers to arrive next week into the studio 🌸

http://www.honeysucklehollowflorist.com/mothers-day-2024

Delivery available in Siouxland or free pickup at our Flower House. Feel free to tour our house and native pollinator gardens while you stop in for your flowers . It’s always so fun to visit with everyone on these special flower days each year 🌸

Image by the talented Jenni O Photography

29/04/2024

Mercedes here with Honeysuckle Hollow reminding you that there are just two more days to place your Mother’s Day orders!!! Stop over to our website (link in profile) to see what fun items we have available…. Some of these cool SPRING WOODLAND ARRANGEMENTS (pictured on this post) with all sorts of intriguing blooms created in a bed of moss that looks almost like a basket with their halos of curly willow twigs….

BOUNTIFUL CORAL PEONY BOUQUETS in two sizes

And possibly a MARTAGON LILY BOUQUET if they aren’t sold out yet!

We hope you love the truly unique creations we have dreamt up to celebrate spring and motherhood!!!

Feel free to call Mercedes Ivener at 712-251-9922 to place an order if that is easier for you than our website.

Cant wait to see everyone May 11th …. One special day when we are offering delivery or pickup here in Siouxland! 🌸

Thank you for these beautiful images 💕

29/04/2024

Yes just 2 days remain to place your MOTHER’S DAY orders from Honeysuckle Hollow. Stop into our webshop (link in profile) to see what we have available… Yes we will have gorgeous PEONY BOUQUETS in various sizes like the images shown here!!! Peonies are so many of our favorite flowers that we can’t wait to offer them for all those special mamas 🌸

Thank you for these beautiful images 💕

28/04/2024

Mother’s Day ordering deadline is April 30th!!! That’s just a few days away so jump over to our webshop (link below) and get your mom a Honeysuckle Hollow floral creation !🌸 All flowers will be available for pickup or delivery in Siouxland on May 11th .

We have peony bouquets in small or large sizes

And spring woodland arrangements

And possibly one more martagon lily bouquet….

Items are selling out in the last week but I have loaded some extra on the website to make sure those of you who want our flowers for the holiday can get something special!

I just ordered more of these beautiful coral peonies from a Pennsylvania flower farm so there are more BOUNTIFUL PEONY BOUQUETS available on the website..:

 http://www.honeysucklehollowflorist.com/mothers-day-2024

Remember, even if you don’t have a mom in Siouxland, just grab yourself a bundle to celebrate the spring season and bring a little beauty to your lives!

Thank you Jenni O Photography for these beautiful photos!!! Loved our quick visit together among the flowers ❤️ If anyone ever needs small business brand photography, Jenni does a fantastic job capturing the “specialness” of what you do … OK that’s not the most eloquent way of explaining it but you get the idea. Just had to give her a little shout out for the many years she has been helping to photograph the magic that I make in the studio ✨