FLOWER FARM AND BOUTIQUE DESIGN STUDIO SERVING UPSTATE SC & BEYOND

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Cannot believe it is already halfway through June. Throwback to late March here, feels like years and minutes ago all at the same time. @therutherfordgvl showcase partay. ✨So many people kept asking me if these florals were fake because they were “just so beautiful” I couldn’t stop giggling at that. I take it as a compliment for sure, but it also makes me wish more folks had access to real flowers more often which is why I love selling to the general public too. Getting to expose people to the fairy magic wonderland that is the diversity of cut flowers is my fave. 100% locally grown and foraged early spring magic here. My true favorite season. Already ordered my ranunculus corms and I hope they do well again bc I spent a pretty penny on ‘em. 🙈

Is it on Friday that you’re supposed to do the introduction caption thing? Well it’s raining and I busted ass planting the last couple days so here goes:
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I’m Kendra! (not Laurel😆): My business name came from the sweet babbling creek that cuts the big field off from the field where our 100 year-old farmhouse with the best porch in the history of porches (pictured) stands. {••••••••••••••••••••}
I raise about 1/3 of an acre of specialty cut flowers for sale to the general public, other florists, and to make my own full-service and a la carte wedding orders sparkle with ingredients that are dear to my heart and super fresh. I have a couple part time farm helpers but otherwise I’m flying solo 💪🏼
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I studied photography (shot medium format 6x7 mostly!) at @bardcollege and just missed my ten year reunion a couple weekends ago. Also just threw a chunk of cash at the remaining balance on my student loans earlier this week! 💸 grateful for the academic scholarship that kept those loans from being paid for another ten years of my youthful prime, ugh. {••••••••••••••••••••}
I’m a huge fan of expensive nuanced green teas, scrappy loving, spoiled ass farm cats (also pictured), watching the moon rise, floating in inner tubes on the river, historical romance/period pieces of any kind, being righteously pissed about any injustices of a social/racial/economic/environmental/gender inequality bent etc etc forever. Don’t let me get too drunk unless you want to hear me wax philosophical on issues that matter. I talk about climate change a lot because I can’t stop thinking about it and let’s be real this shit is terrifying.
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Since I was born and raised in New Jersey I’ve got a sailor mouth (my mom is worse in fact) and that might have been the hardest thing about adjusting to life in the Deep South since my dad’s former job transplanted him to Nashville in 2005! I’ve learned people find cussing to be exponentially more offensive down here and honestly it is exhausting for my brain. The F word functions way more like punctuation in my family than evidence of any lack of morality. 😂
•Okay happy Friday!•

Swamp @swamprabbitcafe bunches are looking mighty frothy and textural this week. Yarrow “summer berries” (on crop this week only!) Combined with the last “earl grey” larkspur, *peach* foxglove and “strawberry hoop” scoop scabiosa, *chocolate* lace flower and a couple other cuties...Basically these bouquets are dessert in flower form in color and variety names hehehe🍓🍬🍧🍫🍭🍨🍑If the small delivery I dropped today sells too quickly don’t fret I’m dropping more off Friday afternoon! Lots of them! These crops are prolific and it’s going to be a gorgeous couple of weeks here in June. Had to rush home today to plant five hundred babies out and stake a bunch of taller crops before we (finally! It’s been almost a month of crispy + dusty) get a bunch (too much?😅) of RAIN! See my stories for evidence of planting in the light rain all afternoon today lol. Pruney toes and all. #slowflowers #yeahthatgreenville #ashevilleflorist #yeahthattr #naturalistfloristry #farmerflorist #localflowers #scupstateflowers

Spent my morning in the scabiosa patch with cuties like this beauty. If I owe you an email sorry!! I’ve been too good of a farmer this year and I can barely keep up with the harvesting and prepping for the next wave of planting. Trying to keep anything resembling regular office hours when your life is also very much dictated by the weather is quite difficult. And I also just can’t bring myself to muster up the energy to send perky emails in evenings after I’ve been dripping sweat for 9+ hours straight and my back is screaming for some lay down on the couch and veg the F out time...finding the balance...

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