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31/01/2025

Why the hype? Are they just buzz words? What’s the value in sourcing from local & American grown farmers as a florist and for your customers. Let’s chat 🌸
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The battle to keep agriculture a part of our country isn’t just important to farmers & ranchers, it’s important to us as artists, business owners & consumers. If we do not choose to buy, ask for & support our agriculture community eventually it will not exist. You won’t have the opportunity to buy from local farmers, you won’t be able to have a cut flower represent season or place and you won’t have community members with their hands in the soil bringing fresh produce, vegetables and flowers to your tables.
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If it’s important to you to source domestically and know where your flowers come from, then start making the changes!! Yes, US grown is more expensive so adjust your pricing, educate your customers why and share the importance of origin before every transaction we have as consumers becomes faceless and we have no connection to our land and communities. Origin matters and so does having the choice to be able to source here in our country.
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Supporting & sourcing local & American-grown flowers & foliage fosters environmental sustainability, economic growth, and provides consumers with fresher, higher-quality floral products. ! Change starts here everyday with all of YOU. How will you choose to be a part of it?
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26/01/2025

I’ve been watching posts all day in floral groups panicking about the possibility of a 25% tariff on Colombian imports, especially with Valentine’s Day around the corner. Their panic is deeply warranted. 78% of the flowers bought and sold in the U.S. are imports with Colombia as our largest supplier, especially of roses.
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This is a scary time and will affect florists bottom line, no doubt, especially if you are a florist that relies solely or heavily on imported flowers. This is not an anti-import post but an education post to discuss what options you have.
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20% of the flowers bought & sold in the U.S. are grown here locally in YOUR communities and by large commercial farms across the country. For those florists that started seeing other options that they could source from since the pandemic affected the supply chain there isn’t a sudden WTH do we do feeling.
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Can our U.S. growers turn on a dime to fill the huge gaps overnight … unfortunately no. There has to be a consistent demand for domestic product for them to plan for more production throughout this year and next. There is a reason we don’t have the supply like Colombia does and they are a significant part of the reason we lost farms since the mid 90s. With the Andean Free Trade Agreement they began producing more and cheaper and started flooding the U.S. market causing many of our farms to close their doors year after year.
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So what can you do to stay afloat and keep growing as a small business in the floral industry? Raise your prices to accommodate the tariffs or cost of local & American grown … which honestly with 25% increase will be closer to fair trade prices and comparable.
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Maybe this helps the U.S. cut flower growing industry or maybe things stay the same. You have the choice to source differently, be part of change, connect with your local growers and educate your customers or fall victim to this tariff and possibly more to come. What will you choose?
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Want to learn more about local & American grown flowers & their growers, follow . Start making new connections, origin matters!

18/01/2025

Wanting to source American Grown flowers & greens more in 2025 or looking for season extension as a farmer-florist? Here’s your opportunity to jump right in! Valentine’s Day preorders are due Monday 1/20 🌸
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10/01/2025

With many of our Valentines botanicals come from the flower basket of the country, California, there’s no better time to support the agriculture communities there throughout the state and across the country.
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These farms & communities continually face climate change effects and rising prices of water, gas, labor & energy as well as the continued increase in cheaper imports …. yet many have persevered and continue to provide for us 12 months a year while providing millions of jobs across the United States.
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This Valentines share the importance of origin and why buying domestically is important with your customers. You have an opportunity to be a big voice in your community for supporting local & American grown farmers.
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Preorders due in 10 days on 1/20. Get your orders in 🌸
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10/01/2025

This coast welcomed me each time I flew into LA since 2019 when I first started working on The Floral Source. The people that became a part of my life and helped me grow this community & collective voice live among these wildfires throughout LA from canyons to coast. My heart is broken seeing the destruction and cannot begin to fathom the fear, pain and loss everyone is experiencing.
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While none of our partnering farms have thankfully been damaged in the fires, these communities that burned held their loved ones & friends and many of our own in the industry.
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Lifting you up in love & prayer LA. Stay safe friends, we love you

27/12/2024

The American Grown Valentine’s Day shop is open! So many amazing seasonal botanicals available to source and we have a new feature this holiday … a build-your-own VDay box!
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Preorders are due January 20 so go check out the shop and start the planning for 2025 Valentine’s Day!
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25/12/2024

Merry Christmas from us to all of you! 🌲❤️ Thank you for your continued support of our partnering farms & your community of local growers across the country, all year long!
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Huge thanks to our evergreens growers, berry growers, wreath & garland makers that made our wreath workshops and home decor installations possible this season! We are continually humbled & grateful to work alongside all of you to support domestic agriculture and create accessibility to more U.S. grown flowers & greens! It’s incredible to witness all the growth within this community and see the changes & impact you are making in your hometowns!
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Sending light, love, rest & peace to all of you. As you reflect on this year may you see all the small feats you overcame & accomplished. We often only think celebrating the big accomplishments is the goal but fail to see that all the small daily things we do as business owners & community members matter the most . Keep up the great work flower friends, we see you! 🙌
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08/12/2024

Neutral mauve brown vibes by way of mocha mousse - we got you with local & American grown blooms 🙌Here’s my top picks of what we can source, domestically, throughout the year with 2025’s color of the year!
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It’s a mix of feelings every year when announces their chosen color. In my 14 years as a wedding florist you don’t see it requested from your couples for another year or so, which allows us time to prepare. While there isn’t a true “mocha mousse” in flowers we got some close contenders and color family members that will work incredibly well for this very versatile color with lots of room for interpretation!
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Florists, remember your local farmers can’t just go plant all the brown flowers right now for next year and be prepared for mass quantities but they can listen to trends and what you will want to source and plan for the near future! This is a great opportunity for local flower farmers and their florists to talk about expectations & needs this winter! Host a local meet up to talk shop as a community 🌸
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02/12/2024

Ready to join us in the fields of one of the most unique flower farms in the U.S., elevate your business and recharge with new flower friends ?
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Join us May 18 - 21, 2025 for an exclusive floral retreat and sustainability workshop in northern San Diego county in the rugged & rolling foothills of Fallbrook, California in partnership with and flower farmer, Mel Resendiz.
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This isn’t like other retreats or workshops you’ve attended! We want you to return to your businesses energized, inspired and able to implement what you learn into your everyday and wedding & event operations. Which is why we’ve partnered with to build a mock wedding from concept to ex*****on with and . Kelly & Jen, your event hosts and instructors, will be sharing their 40+ years of combined retail, wedding and event experience.
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Because of the remote location where Resendiz Brothers’ grows, we are limited to 12 attendees. Most designers will never have the opportunity to see these fields and experience U.S. flower farming on this level.
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And to truly add a retreat from the hustle & bustle of our businesses we will be staying at , our host venue in Temecula - southern California’s wine country!
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Tickets are on sale for $300 off if you sign up by January 1. Tag your friends and grab your tickets! They are already going with our newsletter friends getting first dibs yesterday 🌸 Link in bio to tickets!
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30/11/2024

Ready to join me back in the fields in the new year? Start your planning and get excited, we are headed to protea farm in Fallbrook! Our 2025 California Floral Retreat tickets go live tomorrow Dec. 1!
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This exclusive workshop & retreat is limited to 12 attendees so don’t miss your opportunity to join me in flower fields like you’ve never experienced! 🌸
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Tag a flower friend below that you want to sign up with!
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28/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving flower friends!

Grateful for all of you that care about where your flowers & greens come from

Grateful for a growing community of movers & shakers

Grateful for our hardworking farmers, in all sectors of agriculture, that make choice in how we source our food & flowers an option
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Thinking of all of you today and praying this next year provides peace, growth and a steadfast community for change 🌸
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22/11/2024

The Holiday Shop is live and filled with a plethora of fresh evergreens and other winter greenery, berries, premade garlands & wreaths in a variety of greenery & berry combinations, pinecones and more! Our winter product is being sourced from Florida, Louisiana, California, Oregon & Washington! Create for your communities while supporting U.S. flower & greens farmers this season & year-round 🌲🌸
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Newsletter going out today, make sure you are signed up to stay up to date with what’s in season & shipping!
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12/11/2024

The Fall 2024 Slow Flowers Journal highlighting the holidays is live and we are so honored to have our Farm & Floral Workshop: Holiday Hosting & Decor with Continental Floral Greens featured! We created so much beauty celebrating the fall & winter seasons during our 2 days! Highlighting all of PNW greens & berries was magical! We can’t wait til we are back on the farm again to highlight more seasons and its offerings!
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Head to the link in the bio to read about the workshop, the farm team behind CFG and subscribe to the must read journal!
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05/11/2024

What an honor to have the fall installation from our Holiday Hosting & Decor Workshop with , on their farm in Forest Grove, Oregon, featured on the cover of the Fall 2024 Journal!
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Grateful for the opportunities to highlight farms across the country through these Farm & Floral workshops for florists, farm-florists and other floral professionals. Partnering with Continental Floral Greens to highlight their PNW grown product for fall & winter was truly a dream come true!
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Thank you for the featured story about the workshop and the farm! Thank you to our attendees that joined us and helped create this installation & a winter one! Thank you to for the beautiful seasonal products to create & style with!
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Next opportunity to join us for a Farm & Floral Workshop is May 18-21 in California with 🌸 Save the Date - tickets launch Dec. 1!
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23/10/2024

Save the Date! We are headed back to California May 18-21, 2025 at in Fallbrook!
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Tickets launch in December and only open to 12 attendees!
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Want to be the first to get a ticket?? Make sure you are signed up for our newsletter as we will launch there before we post on social media! Tell your friends and tag below who you want to flower with in the beautiful hills of Northern San Diego County next spring!
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17/10/2024

In a season of bounty & giving thanks there is no better time to support our hardworking farms providing flowers & greens to this design community & their local communities! Our goal 365 days a year is to provide more accessibility to farm fresh domestically grown botanicals. Our fall shop has been updated with all the best autumnal offerings from our partnering American Grown farms! Swipe to see just a few of our favorites! … 🌸🌸🌸Giveaway at bottom of post 🌸🌸🌸
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Check back weekly to see new items we add as they become available and start planning for your Thanksgiving orders. We highly recommend you get your Thanksgiving shipments the week before the holiday. Don’t forget these flowers, greens & branched fruit are harvested days before shipping so will hold well in your cooler!
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🌸🌸Giveaway: Tag a florist or farmer-florist you think would want to source more American grown flowers & foliage year-round! We are giving away a 12 bunch fall seasonal surprise box to be received on a date you want the next 4 weeks. Each person you tag is an entry to the giveaway and sharing & tagging in stories is 2 entries! Origin matters!
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31/07/2024

We are American Grown 🌸 🌱 The Floral Source is a proud member of which is a coalition of American grown flower & foliage growers, wholesalers & its advocates! We are honored to work with our 25+ partnering farms 12 months a year to get you the freshest farm direct domestically grown flowers & foliage!!
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Certified American Grown (CAG) is a non-profit launched in 2021. As a national trade association, it represents a unified and diverse community of American flower and foliage farmers from the United States. Consumers spend almost $27 billion per year on floral products, and while the majority of consumers would prefer to buy locally grown flowers and foliage, only a small percentage (22%) sold in the United States are grown here. It’s our hope to change that by further educating consumers and policy makers on the importance of supporting home grown industry.
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CAG & its member’s vision is to have a healthy, sustainable, and prosperous American grown flower and foliage farming community. The iconic Certified American Grown seal communicates to the consumer the domestic origins of purchase, and affirms the high quality, freshness and standards involved with producing American Grown flowers, foliage and plants.
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With a daily economic impact of almost $42 million, and supporting hundreds of farmers, thousands of small businesses, and tens of thousands of jobs in the United States, the flower and foliage sector is an important part of U.S. agriculture. Imagine the positive impact if more flowers and foliage sold were homegrown!
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YOUR CHOICE helps support family farms who work hard every day – investing their time, energy and passion into producing the freshest, highest quality and most beautiful products so you and your family have home grown flowers, foliage and plants to enjoy.
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Certified American Grown is here to ensure our farmers’ viability now and in the future so American grown can be part of your everyday life and special events!
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18/07/2024

I’m so excited to be hosting a fall workshop in Oregon Sept 30-Oct 1 at ! I knew when I visited their property in Forest Grove, Oregon last June it was a place & team I wanted other designers to meet & experience!
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Hosting these farm & floral workshops is more than just about the creating & pretty, it’s about building the community, education, digging deeper and grasping the importance of why where our flowers & greens come from truly matters. It’s about the people behind the blooms & foliage that work hard year-round to make American grown products a reality for us! Without them we would only have imported product and no connection to season or place.
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If you’ve been wanting to get out in the fields, meet farmers & farm teams & learn how they do things and then create right where they grow then come join us this fall!
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We will be focusing on holiday designs since this farm produces incredible winter foliage and unique textural botanicals unique to the PNW! & I will be teaching you how to elevate your holiday decor & decorating skills whether for business or personal use! No experience necessary, just a love of flowers & greens and a desire to grow your floral design tool kit!
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You are not out of luck flower friends! 🌸🌸🌸 While preorders are closed we still have a lot available! Most everything is growers choice in colors moving forward. Go check out the shop and see all the beautiful blooms & foliage available this holiday ! • • Grateful to all our partnering farms who are making sourcing American Grown possible this Valentine’s and throughout the year! 🌸🌸 • • #flowers #florists #wholesaleflowers #americangrown #originmatters #seasonalflowers #slowflowers #localflowers #thefloralsource

Filler is such an ick word in my opinion. We overlook how much power & beauty many of these textured botanicals have in floral design. Winter & spring is the time when some of my favorites get to play together like genista & agonis! Tell me what your favorites are 👇 • • Valentines preorders due 1 week from today ❤️❤️💕 • • Grown by @mellanoandcompany #flowers #botanicals #seasonalflowers #seasonalfloweralliance #cagrown #americangrown #wholesaleflowers #localflowers #slowflowers #thefloralsource

The Holiday Decor & Hosting workshop at @cfgreens in Forest Grove, Oregon starts today! • • Grateful for this opportunity to highlight another amazing American Grown farm and bring designers to the field to create with & be inspired by the product that grows there, learn seasonal & sustainable floral practices, understand all that goes into domestic flower & greens farming, create community and connect with the people behind the products we love! • • Thank you to @accentdecorinc for sponsoring our workshop for fall & winter holidays! Thank you to @slowflowerssociety for their sponsorship and to @debraprinzing for spending Day 1 with us! • • #floralworkshop #oregongrown #greenery #cfgreens #thefloralsource #floraldesign #florists #Americangrown #foamfreeworkshop #sustainablefloristry #seasonalflowers #slowflowers

HOLIDAY DECOR & HOSTING WORKSHOP 🌸 This fall we are headed to @cfgreens Oregon farm where we will spend two days in the fields & greenhouses creating, building our businesses, growing our design skills for the holidays and fostering community! Centerpieces, table styling, wreaths, foam free installation, local flowers & greens! • • Being able to bring designers & creatives to flower & greenery farms across this country has been the number one business goal from the beginning of The Floral Source. It’s important for us to walk the fields with farmers and understand all that goes into growing & harvesting the products we love! • • Who is ready to join @jenniferdesignsevents & @petalsbytheshore Sept 30-Oct 1 in Forest Grove, Oregon? Open to all skill levels and creatives - professional & hobbyists! Details in link in bio 🌸 • • #floralworkshop #flowerfarmers #localflowers #betterhomesandgardens #floraldesign #holidaydecor #seasonalflowers #flowerfarm #oregonflorist #oregonflowers #florists #thefloralsource

American Grown Flowers month continues and gives us our 49th state in bloom! It is peony season in Alaska and we’ve been busy shipping them from northern Alaska and will soon be shipping from the southern portion of the state! And amazing news looks like we will have them available to ship the beginning of September & hopefully 🤞🤞 mid September! • • No peony retreat here this summer but get ready for next July 2025 to join me for a revamped event! If you are wanting to join me in the fields sooner then come join @jenniferdesignsevents & I in Oregon Sept 30-October 1 for our 2 day workshop with @cfgreens • • Details & link in bio for workshop and online shop for what’s in season & shipping! 🌸🌸🌸 • • #peonies #peony #floralworkshop #floralretreat #florists #floristsinthefield #farmerflorists #homeralaska #peonyseason #julyflowers #americangrownflowersmonth #americangrownflowers #originmatters #thefloralsource

July is American Grown Flowers Month!! It’s the month when all 50 states from Florida to Alaska, Virginia to California has cut flowers & foliage in bloom. While we as a community of change makers & doers choose to celebrate & support our domestic flower & foliage growers across the country 365 days a year, we have a bigger opportunity this month to be a collective voice across all social media channels and in our local communities! • • Follow along at @americangrownflowers for how to be involved and how to educate your customers! • • #americangrown #americangrownflowers #americangrownflowersmonth #originmatters #localflowers #flowerfarmers #wheredoyourflowerscomefrom #flowers #florists #farmerflorists #thefloralsource

The Mother’s Day Shop is live and ready for you! The farms are asking for pre-orders by April 19 so start planning! This is the last big push of spring holidays 🌸 and we’d love to help you source more American grown flowers & greens! • • See how we can help fill the gap for what you cannot find locally, what you can’t find in variety domestically at your local wholesalers and enjoy the ease of having the flowers shipped direct from the farms across the country overnight to you! • • Peonies will definitely be available and start shipping from Virginia at the end of this month!! If you want a specific variety we have listed get your orders in stat otherwise it will be farmers choice. • • Thank you for all the continued support in 2024! We have more flowering to do together! 🌸 • • #flowers #florists #farmdirectflowers #floralwholesale #domesticflowers #americangrown #originmatters #mothersday #mothersdayflowers #peony #localflowers #seasonalflowers #wheredoyourflowerscomefrom #thefloralsource

American grown ranunculus farm direct shipping season will come to a close in a little over a month. We used to have partnering farms that grew year-round but corm prices and rising heat in California, where we predominantly source from, and elsewhere just couldn’t afford to grow these beauties anymore past Mother’s Day. • • Yes, our colder climate growers are just getting started and will be exploding with this amazing & highly coveted bloom! It will soon be that time of the year where we turn to our local farms who are busting at the seams with blooms! But …. not every area has local growers, or nearby wholesalers. And if they do have local wholesalers they frequent they can’t find a variety of domestic botanicals, if any! This is where we become a great resource 💕 • • So that being said … We are looking to partner with a farm or farms that are growing ranunculus May - September/October! And if you grow something else you think we might be interested in and have a lot of it to move we’d love to chat with you also! 🌸🌸 • • If that’s you or you know someone and they are willing to drop-ship from their farms to our clients across the U.S. DM or email [email protected] 🌸🌸 • • Ranunculus grown by @mellanoandcompany at @the_flower_fields • • #ranunculus #flowerfarmers #floral #floralcommunity #supportourfarms #cagrown #farmdirectflowers #ascfg #slowflowers #wholesaleflowers #americangrown #localflowers #floralsourcing #thefloralsource

It’s the perfect day to celebrate and highlight our partnering Florida greenery farm collective @ferntrustinc who provides us with the most beautiful foliage year-round! • • Have you tried their greenery drop in bouquets? They are an amazing time saver especially during the holidays! Check out our wholesale shop for florists & farmer-florists! • • Happy St. Patrick’s Day flower & fern friends 🍃 • • Photography @bethcaldwellphoto • • #greenery #americangrown #floridagrown #foliage #localcutflowers #locallygrown #farmdirect #wholesaleflowers #ferntrust #florists #tropicalfoliage #thefloralsource

Ready to join me in the most gorgeous ranunculus flower fields ?!? Tickets are live for my 2 day workshop in Carlsbad & Oceanside, California at @mellanoandcompany ranch & @the_flower_fields April 10-11!••What’s included in this 2 day workshop:- Exclusive farm tour at the Mellano Ranch in Oceanside - Recognized member of the design team with featured designer Kelly Shore of @petalsbytheshore for the @americangrownflowers Field to Vase Dinner at the ranunculus flower fields April 11- Hands-on design workshop learning foam free mechanics for centerpieces and large installations - Seasonal locally grown bouquet workshop and beach photo shoot with @madeleinecollinsphoto - VIP tour at @the_flower_fields with farmer Mike Mellano- Headshots at the ranunculus fields- Attend the F2V dinner overlooking the Pacific at sunset enjoying local wine and a locally sourced and prepared meal ••Early bird signup by March 6 for $150 off ticket price. Link here: https://www.thefloralsource.com/theflowerfields-april-2024! Open to any floral enthusiasts, but only 12 spots available 🌸••#ranunculus #theflowerfields #floralworkshop #floraldesign #socal #flowerfarm #florists #mellanoandcompany #floristsofinstagram #flowerlovers #sustainablefloristry #localflowers #fieldtovase #farmtotable #cabountiful #cagrown #americangrownflowers #americangrown #petalsbytheshore

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