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Brilliant Tips for Transporting Flowers from Your Farm

Brilliant Tips for Transporting Flowers from Your Farm

Nancy Viseth
Articles

Flower farming takes a lot of time and energy. Sometimes after putting so much thought into your seed and plug orders, planting, maintaining, and harvesting your flowers, making sure to properly transport and deliver them may be something of an afterthought. But delivering the flowers without experiencing any wear and tear on the way to your destination is a crucial step in maintaining your reputation for quality. Dive into this article for comprehensive tips for transporting flowers from your farm.

Are You Ready to Start a Local Flower Market?

Are You Ready to Start a Local Flower Market?

Kelly Morrison
Articles

As floral design styles shift more toward natural, loose arrangements, the demand for locally grown flowers has followed. This increased demand and awareness of local flowers from florists has created an excellent opportunity for flower farmers to fill a void in the traditional market. However, the challenge is how to supply the volume needed and the convenience offered by conventional wholesalers.

Giving Yourself Grace in Business and Parenthood

Giving Yourself Grace in Business and Parenthood

Lynn Windmeyer
Articles

Give yourself the gift of grace when running your flower business and raising a family. I hope these words will encourage you in the midst of all the not-so-perfect days, whether you are nurturing your own baby flower business or your sweet baby. That gift might just give you what you need to keep moving forward with hope for your future.

In-Depth Techniques You Need for Growing Delphinium

In-Depth Techniques You Need for Growing Delphinium

Nancy Viseth
Articles

Growing delphinium as a cut flower crop can have its challenges, but if you follow an orderly process, it can be a very rewarding flower to grow. Delphinium has several advantages such as its striking, dramatic quality and large stature which can be useful in larger arrangements. It also blooms during that early June window when your spring flowers may be finished, but your summer annuals aren’t flowering yet, helping you fill in that gap. It also provides that hard-to-find true blue color in both light and dark shades.

Team Flower's Next Chapter

Team Flower's Next Chapter

Jesse Perry
Videos, Articles

Small businesses grow one step at a time, and most often, the really important things unfold slowly right under our own noses. You probably remember those early moments of your floral business, too, where you were crunching the numbers and fitting in floral work where you could on top of others jobs…

The Benefits of Flower Remedies with Amy Cohen

The Benefits of Flower Remedies with Amy Cohen

Kelly Perry
Articles

Amy Cohen reached out to me several months ago and introduced me to an area of flowers I was not familiar with: flower remedies. It’s also called plant medicine or botanical healing. At the time, I was familiar with essential oils and could speak to the life-giving effect incorporating plants into my life, so this was intriguing. Flower remedies are different than oils though, so I thought it could be fun to invite Amy to teach us a little more about this topic.

How to Speak with Floral Design Clients

How to Speak with Floral Design Clients

Kalin Sheick
Articles

Whether someone has been in floral design for a year or more than 20 years, the stories shared when designers get together range from heartwarming to hair-raising. We’ve all experienced difficult situations, and it’s my hope that the tips below will help avoid, clear up, or settle any tough stuff with our clients.

Connecting with Wedding Vendors as a New Florist

Connecting with Wedding Vendors as a New Florist

Janine Harris
Articles

One of the biggest things to consider is marketing your business and how to get your name out there! When you’re a new floral pro, it can be challenging to jump into marketing via social media and publishing, but something simple you can do to introduce yourself to the wedding industry is to network with other vendors in your community. Vendors can include event venues, photographers, planners, caterers, DJs, and even other florists. Again, this may seem like a daunting task, but hopefully these few tips will help make this step a bit easier to accomplish.

How to Design Jewelry Using Fresh Flowers

How to Design Jewelry Using Fresh Flowers

Leslie Wacker
Articles

We’ve all seen the trend of flower crowns, flower jewelry, and flower accessories bloom into the market. And for good reason, too. How cool is it to accessorize your look with fresh floral creations? Floral accessories are great for bridesmaids to accessorize or perhaps for that untraditional bride looking for a little wow-factor. Mothers love a bracelet cuff adorned with floral rather than a traditional wrist corsage! But how do we design jewelry using fresh flowers?

Helpful Advice for Working Together With Your Spouse

Helpful Advice for Working Together With Your Spouse

Kathleen Drennan
Articles

Team Flower Member Kathleen and Sloan own a high-volume retail floral business as well as manage a separate wedding and events brand. They’ve been thinking a lot recently about what has made this partnership and this business so successful. It’s impossible to pinpoint just one thing, but Kathleen offers a few pearls of wisdom for anyone on this journey—or for those who are contemplating the idea.

The 2018 American Grown Field to Vase Dinner With Kelly

The 2018 American Grown Field to Vase Dinner With Kelly

Kelly Perry
Articles

Every year, American Grown Flowers hosts a multitude of Field to Vase dinners across the United States. These events are held at beautiful farms that place seasonal, local, and sustainable American-grown flowers at the center of each table and serve locally grown food, beer and wine prepared by a farm-to-table chef. The focus of the dinner tour is on the flowers, the farms, and the guests, which makes for quite a magical experience!

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