FLOWER FARM AND BOUTIQUE DESIGN STUDIO SERVING UPSTATE SC & BEYOND

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All my early spring favorites in one vase. All homegrown or local except the few stems of lunaria and dried nigella pods. La Belle Époque tulips the only tulip I’ll ever plant, tulips don’t make any money but this one makes my heart leap with joy so I forget that I hate digging them up/feeding money to our voles all winter. Mauve and toffee and ruffles. ✨

Fresh bundles today at @swamprabbitcafe grocery! You might smell this sweet spray type narcissus before you see it! Happiness in a bundle. Also dropped off some of the first shorty anemones jam jar posy style (and a couple tulips sprinkled in because they snapped short while I harvested so FINE you can have some of my precious tulips lol). Seeing all sorts of upward growth in my garden beds, just a few weeks until we are truly rocking and rolling again! 🌸

HAPPY SPRINGTIME!! Spent my day unboxing hundreds of plugs from @farmerbaileyplugs and potting up baby heirloom mums. Slow ass divas like lisianthus that I lack the patience or skill to grow from seed (6 months from sowing🙃). Loaded up some firewood to kill the evening chill, looking forward to that morning sun for ever lengthening days until June 21. My body seemed to perk up and want to do more today, after a long winter of sleeping hard for many hours a night (sorry to the parents out there😅) I truly went into bear hibernation mode this winter. It’s so jarring that we try to live outside the bounds of seasonal cycles as modern human animals, it’s soo friggin hard to get up three hours before the sun in January, for a good/biological reason. I do not envy all you early morning commuters out there. It might be my favorite feature of self employment honestly. As an insomniac type I sleep like crap if I know I have to be somewhere before ten AM, waking throughout the night. All for switching that high school start time to match teen circadian rhythms too. I’ll never forget how delicious transitioning to college from high school was, only picking classes that started after 9 AM, I definitely slept more despite all the binge drinking 🤣As I move into my 30s I’m also really not into staying up late much anymore. Seasonality for floral design AND sleep habits, I’m here for it. Here’s to longer days and frog song and all the fresh twinkling green of springtime which I tried to channel into these arrangements at @therutherfordgvl yesterday! All locally sourced (tulips/ foliage and snowdrops from my farm) except for two bunches of dried bleachy textural bits. 🖤🌱

Yesterday was so much fun! Thanks to everyone who came out. It was a treat to get to nerd out over my flowers with all sorts of folks, instead of the real deal set-up a wedding sweating bullets and run away as the guests arrive hoping everyone liked it all. At least 8 people were thoroughly convinced my pieces were faux flowers because they were “just too pretty”😂I take it as a compliment (after I feel some mild horror as silk flowers really are NOT my style, no matter how good they get at making them look real). I like my floral art to be biodegradable! That’s also why I’ve gone #floralfoamfree on installation work like this guy. I used chicken wire and water tubes to make an 8 ft branch (river driftwood) my friend pulled out of the Eastatoee River while we were tubing in my hood last summer. I stashed it in the greenhouse to dry out and eyeballed it for months knowing I wanted to hang it up somewhere as a floaty base and the @therutherfordgvl showcase was its debut! Going foam free is challenging me to find more wilt-proof ingredients (water tubes can get bulky fast!) like the foraged mountain laurel and bamboo sprigs featured here. If the DNR guys ever catch me cutting laurel in the wildlife management acres that butt up to our property I bet they would not be upset as they schedule controlled burns to take the prolific shrubs out. Responsible foraging is important to me too. I never cut too much from anything that isn’t as prolific, and I hack with abandon at invasive species to try to help a tiny bit.
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