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In this episode, Milli Proust joins Kelly for a lovely conversation. Milli runs a small scale flower farm growing crop to use in her design work for weddings and events. She's celebrating 6 months of a COVID pivot to nationwide bouquet deliveries and selling seeds from the field.
On this episode of the Team Flower Podcast, Bex Partridge of Botanical Tales joins in to talk about all things dried flowers! Bex is walking us through the detailed processes of drying flowers and her favorite flowers to grow for drying.
In this article, you’ll find a list of unique cut flowers to be grown for dried floral creations of various types.
Bethany Little of Charles Little & Company is sharing with us about large-scale flower farming, dried flowers, and growth within community. Charles Little & Company began in 1986 as a large-scale flower farm providing dried flowers to wholesalers, and now they also provide fresh flowers!
In this seasonal design highlight, floral designer Marga Martin shares instructions on how to make beautiful, impactful headdresses out of dandelions.
A full guide for floral pros for finding and using pampas grass in floral work. Discover where to buy wholesale (fresh and dried), pampas grass alternatives, and more!
You can enjoy the beauty in front of you throughout every season in your floral arrangements as long as you know how to look for it—and how to forage for flowers and greenery throughout the year. Here’s how.
Having a good supply of dried flowers can be a great asset to your farm or design business. It’s not only a way to make sales when fresh local flowers are long gone, but it can also help keep your customers engaged with your farm.
There’s something really simple and sweet about using ingredients that you experience along the side of the road, on a walk, or just along the edge of your driveway. To celebrate these experiences, I’m creating a small meadow bouquet of several types of grasses (dried grasses and fresh) along with a few other types of flowers.
As floral business owners, we get into the industry for the love of one thing: the fresh flowers. And for many of us, that will always be our main source of income, but in uncertain times, it’s smart to think about diversifying our revenue streams to include channels that don’t utilize fresh flowers.
Kelly is joined on the podcast by Debra Prinzing of Slow Flowers. Debra has some great advice for slowing down and refocusing on the needs your business is already successfully meeting. She’s also sharing a few tips for those who may have “paused” their business in the recent months. Tune in to find out what steps in this season can best equip your business for the coming years.
Alice de Crom of Floralista joins us on this episode as our special guest! She’s chatting about why she loves the floral industry and what makes it such a special place for her. She’s also sharing some awesome info about how to run a retail floral shop!
As florists, the details in our designs often represent our brand, and many of our clients come to us because of those details. And at the same time, our industry is continuously changing, and we can choose to evolve with it as we push ourselves creatively to find our voice, test new mechanics, explore fresh ideas, and develop our artistry.
