06/06/2022
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Floral and garden design by Allison Chow. Featuring specialty cut flowers I grow myself in Whitby, O Posy Gang is in the business of growing flowers.
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In 2016, after a short but life-changing internship at Floralora Flowers in Prince Edward County, Ontario, I broke ground on a large cutting garden at my home in Whitby. From April to October every year since then, I have supplied local florists and customers with the freshest of specialty cut flowers. Tulips, ranunculus, and dahlias are just some of my favourites. While growing cut flowers is im
mensely rewarding, over time I missed seeing flowers living out their whole lives in the garden. And so, garden design and gardening became the other half of my business. Now I get to have the best of both worlds, and I'm grateful to my clients and customers for allowing me that. Whether you'd like me to grow flowers for your vase, or for your garden, I can't wait to get started. Let's talk flowers - find me at [email protected].
04/06/2022
Frills = thrills
24/05/2022
My favourite Pink Star tulips from (and new favourite, Foxtrot), with a wandering euonymus and a happy caladium 🍉🍓🥝💛
18/05/2022
Can you spot the two kinds of iris in this photo? One of them is a small human sneakily plucking all the flowers off my bleeding hearts — to make soup in her dump truck, naturally.
10/05/2022
Tulip season in 5 photos.
08/05/2022
Wishing I could have taken these to the first Toronto Flower Market of the season today! Almost my entire patch is late to the party, but I ended the day with a big twilight tulip harvest — the first big one. I can’t complain! Now with the heat coming on next week, the rest of the tulips are going to be out of the ground in a flash. Posy Gang florists are you ready? It’s go time!!!
21/12/2021
Some nice news on the darkest day of the year (and who couldn’t use a bit of light right now): with your help in purchasing Posy Gang calendars, I was able to donate $150 - each - to and .ca. From the bottom of my heart, thank you Gang! Happy Solstice — and oh, my goodness, may we please have some brighter days ahead!
07/12/2021
In a cold climate like ours where gardens lie dormant for almost half the year, I’m appreciating more and more the importance of designing with winter at top of mind. What’s left to look good after the frost comes? Hopefully, strong bones.
In this front yard garden, I’m relying pretty heavily on Calamagrostis Karl Foerster grasses to carry us through till spring. There’s more to enjoy up close - zoom in and swipe through for a look. I left behind a few sedum and echinacea seed heads for the birds; a thick, rattling stand of northern sea oats; English lavender (a bit wild and witchy in part sun, but I like the look); and a luscious clump of winter heath (Ericas, maybe) just beginning to bloom.
Lately I’ve been dreaming of filling a landscape with swaths of burgundy sumac, chartreuse dogwoods, and layers upon layers (and more layers!) of grasses. Winter wonderland indeed! Anybody have some land just lying around that I could play with? 😛
03/12/2021
Last call for calendar orders that will help do good!! $5 from every calendar sold until midnight tonight will go toward .ca and - two amazing organizations that make good use of donations and are truly impactful. Order yours now at tinyurl.com/posygang ✨
26/11/2021
Gang, did you hear the news? 2022 Posy Gang calendars are here! Let’s take advantage of our collective buying power this week to do a little good: until December 3, I’m going to donate $5 from every calendar sold to .ca and . Indspire helps Indigenous students in Canada to complete their education by providing funding and other resources; and Feed Ontario supplies and supports Ontario food banks while advocating for solutions that address food insecurity and poverty. Check them out on — these two organizations are pretty impressive. Also, the calendars are extra gorgeous this year, if I may say so myself 😉... so happy shopping! Head over to tinyurl.com/posygang for your copies.
03/11/2021
The final harvest, from a few weeks ago. It was a dahlia season for the books.
15/10/2021
Garden in transition.
06/10/2021
A fresh floral hairpiece for a very, very, very special bride this past Sunday ✨Featuring scabiosa, Japanese anemone, hops flowers, and unripe bittersweet berries — the loveliest little bits and bobs of my early October garden.
01/10/2021
Another Posy Gang garden, planted in the spring and fall of 2018. There’s so much I love about this one: that drift of Japanese anemone, the homeowner’s DIY (!) garden sculpture, the lush carpet of creeping thyme in front of the window box. I don’t have a hand in ongoing care for this one — S and J have been excellent gardeners from the start — but I do take a peek at it once in awhile, and it’s more delightful every time!
01/09/2021
This season I’ve mostly focused on growing flowers for florists and designing gardens, but every once in awhile I’ll arrange something for a special delivery — here’s a really special one from last week. Featuring dahlias Senior’s Hope (berrylicious beauty, lower left) and Hamari Gold (blonde lioness, top right) - from who else but the one and only .
17/08/2021
August in Little Italy. The most charming young man came out to assist me today. His watering technique is interesting (swipe through to see) but the plants seem to enjoy it. His love for his garden is the best review I could ever receive 🌈✨
12/08/2021
And so it begins again: dahlia season, and buckets just overflowing with beauty heading out the door.
11/08/2021
It turned into a jungle so quickly! The paths have all but disappeared from sight, but I can still get between the rows to harvest if I shuffle sideways, carefully, with my arms up. Swipe through for a view from above! If I knew I were living here forever I’m sure there’d be no grass remaining at all 😁
13/07/2021
Spot the monarch! It’s been a July of torrential rains and endless weeding while waiting for the dahlias to start blooming — but the echinacea are loving life, and the monarchs find them irresistible. Have you seen your first monarchs of the season yet?
04/07/2021
July at the garden in Little Italy. I’m told a sweet little boy has found his favourite spot in the clearing under the linden tree. Poppies, lavender, and perovskia are in bloom; honeybees love it here too. The northern sea oats that languished near the back these three years — the surviving plants now look spectacular, especially against the lavender. The best is yet to come.
28/06/2021
Marshmallow fluff.
18/06/2021
This is June at Posy Gang: torrents of Italian ranunculus for a few thrilling weeks, peonies gone in a flash, and fluffy clouds of feverfew and alchemilla — with the scent of garden roses in the air. What a joy it is to send out buckets like these! ✨✨✨ from
11/06/2021
Picked just on the cusp of bursting wide open, there’s always one peony that gets away from me!
08/06/2021
ALL the ranunculus and ALL the peonies brought to you by what feels like the fifth heat wave of 2021 🔥💥⚡️
04/06/2021
Aquilegia canadensis, aglow under the linden tree in the Little Italy garden. Each spring I’m delighted to find more baby columbines popping up. In a few more years it will be a pretty impressive patch I think ✨
03/06/2021
Designing a perennial garden and waiting for it to mature is an exercise in delayed gratification for sure — but the initial planting of it is so instantly satisfying that it’s almost easy to forget just how much better it will get over time. Here’s a before and after of sorts, for the newest Posy Gang garden just installed. Hope to show you more as time goes on.
13/05/2021
Tulips are so demure when they’re buds in tidy bunches. After they settle into their new homes, though — watch out! They open up wide, grow a full few inches taller, then become top heavy and nod gracefully under the weight of their blooms. It’s possible to tame tulips (or at least stop them from growing) by piercing their stems just under the flower head, but I can’t bring myself to do it - why clip their wings? These arrangements I made last week must be looking pretty wild by now.
08/05/2021
Today’s buckets for who was among the very first to ✨✨
07/05/2021
Buckets, buckets, out the door.
05/05/2021
Yesterday I spent an hour or so tending to this dear garden. May is an exciting month. Everything has woken up by now, and is growing by leaps and bounds with all the rain. It’s a sea of green except for that wonderful clump of purple heath (I wish I could take credit for choosing it, but it was here when I arrived). The linden tree, planted three years ago, looks like it’s out of its awkward phase. Its less exposed side is underplanted with native columbine and heuchera, which won’t mind the deepening shade over the next few years. Swipe to see the garden from a different angle, and in April.
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Gang, did you hear the news? 2022 Posy Gang calendars are here! Let’s take advantage of our collective buying power this week to do a little good: until December 3, I’m going to donate $5 from every calendar sold to @indspire.ca and @feedontario. Indspire helps Indigenous students in Canada to complete their education by providing funding and other resources; and Feed Ontario supplies and supports Ontario food banks while advocating for solutions that address food insecurity and poverty. Check them out on @charityintel — these two organizations are pretty impressive. Also, the calendars are extra gorgeous this year, if I may say so myself 😉... so happy shopping! Head over to tinyurl.com/posygang for your copies.
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