good morning! real quick: August 22 is when registration opens for the closing season on-the-farm workshops where you get to arrange with flowers like these fresh from the fields. ✨workshop dates: September 23 (sunset) and September 25 (sunrise). more details to come and subscribing to the email list is the best way to make sure you don’t miss it! have a beautiful day.
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the dahlias have joined the party! but my phone decided to stop recording and I’m back home soooo a clip ending awkwardly it is for today…but that’s nothing new so maybe you wouldn’t have even noticed 🫣 will be back next week with a flower arranging portion, but hopefully this helps clear up a question you may have had about why some people have had dahlias since June and others are just starting to have them!✨
covering a few favorite varieties of cosmos in today’s video! Versailles Mix, Double Dutch White, Apricotta, and Japanese Kirro: sourced from Geoseed and Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. ✨ feeling a little bad that I said the beautiful large pink one was well on its way to dying…a nicer thing to have said was “it’s in its brightest stage of life!” but despite my poor choice of words, it’s kind of true: cosmos allowed to fully open in the field before harvest won’t last as long as if you harvest them when they’re just about to pop open and let them open in the vase. ✨hope this was helpful and please let me know if they’re anything you’d like me to cover next week!
today I’m celebrating rain, tweedia, phlox, starflower, and using tiny little food dishes as flower vessels. also revealing a beautiful yet somewhat creepy drawer I have at home annnnnd giving you the choppiest goodbye ever. my northern born brother in law calls what I was starting to do the southern goodbye: the rambling on and on before getting to the end. I tried to stop myself tonight. awkwardly🫣also…if there’s anything you’d like to have me cover in these little Sunday chats, I’d love to hear your ideas✨until then, have a wonderful week! and goodbye. (just look at the concise ending instagramless Greg!)
Surprise! Susan from @cakebloom is tonight’s special guest, and I’m still in awe about what she created in just under ten minutes using flowers cut from the fields.✨ Everything Susan creates is done with intention, a keen eye for detail, and a warm heart that folds itself into the cake itself. She constantly amazes me with how she sees and uses flowers to make cake masterpieces, and tonight was the perfect of that!✨Sorry you can’t taste the cake through the video, but there are always slices @cakebloom along with the best bubbly and lots of other lovely treats. ✨Thank you Susan for spending the evening with me at the farm!
talking dried flowers today! scabiosa, yarrow, bee balm, statice, + strawflower currently growing in the fields ✨ I used to think that if a flower was dry-able then it means they’d dry upright, and while that’s true for some flowers (larkspur, statice) it’s not true for all, so here’s a very basic tip to help with that.✨now off to celebrate my 2 favorite dads and a now decade old birthday girl : happy Father’s Day!
on today’s Sunday series: designing (more) bud vases using garden fresh greens and flowers new and old from the farm✨as always, this is me in true form because only doing one take no matter what means you see the mishaps that can happen - which hopefully allows you to take stress off designing with flowers too. it’s the bounce back to keep having fun creating an end product you’re proud of that matters most.✨p.s. there’s an opportunity for you to come to the farm and design alongside me at the end of June! more info can be found on link in profile- clicking on “buy” then “workshop” will take you to more info and registration.✨p.p.s. strawberry variety in video is Marie Du Bois🍓
Harper of Liliharp joins me in today’s Sunday flower fun! ✨We say farewell to poppies and hello to scabiosa- and talk about snakes. We also show how to handle when something goes awry with flower arranging…spoiler alert, it’s all about the attitude.✨p.s. I didn’t mean to make it sound like I was throwing my friends under the bus. To be fair they all eventually did get back to me and probably couldn’t have gotten their in time anyway… plus I needed that moment of growth and fear tackling this week.✨
it’s all about the color purple today. and embracing imperfections. speaking of which I made a mistake with a poem I referenced: it’s actually called Warning.✨nonetheless I hope this helps inspire you to go play with flowers. it’s a healing form of meditation when you let the flowers speak to you and embrace the art of arranging in a way that brings you joy.
showing off the best of what’s new in the field in today’s Sunday gab session: campanula, larkspur, nigella, snapdragons, sweet pea, and scabiosa!✨I always make my husband watch these before I post and today he laughed quite a bit and referenced Julia Child- and ended with “I love it because it’s just so you.” So if you haven’t met me, welp, this is the true me in unedited format … and maybe I’ll get to meet you one day soon? June workshop date annnnnd private pick your own session dates being announced soon ☺️
flower garland tutorial using my two favorite spring flowers: tulips and daffodils!✨p.s. I said "tulipa" and I meant to say "pretty princess" because that's what the variety actually is....tulipa is what all tulips are called 🤦♀️ p.p.s.this could be the best statement necklace ever and I blame my camera awkwardness for saying wearing a garland wouldn’t be appropriate around town. not at all true, especially since a person wearing flower garland on a random Wednesday in small town Virginia would be someone I’d like to know.✨annnyway, hope this is helpful and have a great week.
set an intention to share a little something on camera every Sunday this season so here goes nothing! ✨flowers are perfection but I as a human am indeed not, so you may as well get to see the real life unfiltered florist me …and on this particular video you’ll get to see some of my classic imperfections which include : fumbling with chicken wire, making weird faces, seasonal allergy sniffles and storytelling that one may say is over-sharing. BUT despite all that I hope you learn a little something about how to reflex tulips and condition daffodils. ✨see you here next Sunday for more flower fun and the real me.
a bridal bouquet from the archives✨favorite memories from last year included welcoming brides to the farm to walk through the fields and hand pick favorites they wanted included in their designs. really excited to welcome new flower loving souls into the space this year! still have one spot for spring 2022 and fall as well 🤍
