What has deeply driven your floral design style? Hear from one designer as he shares how to observe the natural arrangements of life found in the woods to apply to flower design work.
Flower Spotlight: How to Grow Gomphrena
Fresh or dried, gomphrena offers a playful, delicate, and diverse texture in bouquets and arrangements. It’s the perfect accent for any design piece needing a little extra interest or volume. In this article, learn how to grow gomphrena, why it makes a great addition to arrangements, how to dry the flowers, and more!
5 Tips for Involving Children in Gardening and Floral Design
Here are 5 excellent tips for getting your kids Involved in gardening, flower farming, and floral design.
All Things Floral Pop-Up Shop with Popped with Phebe
Phebe Robinson Higgins of Popped with Phebe joins Kelly on the podcast today to chat all about pop-up shops! She’s sharing how and why she started doing pop-ups and the incredible journey she’s been on since then.
4 Practical Steps to a More Inclusive and Ethnically Diverse Brand
Learn to create and maintain a brand that demonstrates and celebrates inclusivity and diversity. Discover simple ways you can make big, meaningful changes in your community and the world.
Planting a Cutting Garden for Beginners
Are you a beginner looking for guidance on planting a cutting garden? Discover the tools, techniques, and tricks you need to start a cut flower garden in this article—including helpful lists of flowers to grow throughout the year!
Finding Rest in Floral Design with S’wonderful Soirees
It is inevitable that you’ll be encouraged and uplifted as you listen to this episode of the Team Flower Podcast. Kelly is joined by Elisia Brown, Team Flower Member and owner of S’wonderful Soirees, and they’re chatting about everything from letting your light shine to learning to breathe and so many things in between!
You’ll also hear Elisia’s experience through the pandemic and how she’s used the time she would have been designing to practice rest and peace.
Why You Should Grow Native Perennial Flowers on Your Flower Farm
Flower farmers: Native plants offer a number of additional advantages over ornamentals and annual cuts—including energy and conservation, increase in pollinators, and simplifying your space. This article dives into the staying power of native perennials and the benefits of adding them to your farm.
Inspiring the Next Generation of Flower Farmers
Inspiring the next generation of flower farmers and floral professionals is a crucial task. Discover how one group of middle schoolers have successfully started a flower farm that has impacted their community.
The Details of Dahlias: Diversity, Hybridization, and Growth
LeeAnn Huber of Coseytown Flowers is talking with us on the podcast about seeds versus tubers, diversity, hybridization and so much more! She’s sharing in detail how the process of dahlia hybridization works, in addition to diving into how florists can support their local farmers, what it looks like to pause in your business’s growth to bloom yourself, and how to give and receive grace within a partnership.
The Challenges of Getting Cut Flowers Without Local Flower Farms
One event professional gives insight into the challenges that arise from a lack of local flower farms in her home country of Botswana and how the floral community in her region can solve difficulties together.
5 Floral Business Lessons from a Flower Shop Kid
Growing up in a flower shop has its perks and challenges. Hear from one professional floral designer on what she learned as a flower shop kid, including lessons she uses in her business today.
Embracing Wellness and Creativity with Nectar + Bloom
You’ll be inspired by Jen’s gift with words as she shares her experience on her parents’ farm growing up and how that propelled her into various stages of life eventually leading to flowers. Jen is sharing the keys to giving oneself permission to carry out actions from a passionate heart. You’ll hear about the symbiotic relationship between creativity and wellness and how to lean into that for your own life. Jen is calling florists to action in taking care of themselves and she’s providing tips on how to do that well with community, support, education, healing, movement, and nourishment.
Tips for Hosting a Pop-Up with Shean Strong
Atlanta based Shean Strong joins us in this episode of the Team Flower Podcast. We are talking about the importance of embracing the power that flowers hold in changing the ambiance of an entire room. Shean is sharing about his culturally rich background and how that now plays out in his floral designs as well as how he maintains an open view of floral design. We are also walking through a few simple fixes designers can make to increase the visual appeal of their arrangements. You'll learn the in's and out's of connecting with other business in your community and using those connections to successfully conduct a flower pop-up. Shean is giving us the scoop behind his Valentine's Day pop-up at a popular venue in downtown Atlanta - from how he wrapped the hand-tied bouquets to which flowers he used.
Flower Flash Art with Lewis Miller Design
Lewis Miller of Lewis Miller Design joins us on this episode of the Team Flower Podcast! You’ll hear what inspired Lewis to pursue a career in the floral industry. Lewis is also sharing his heart behind the flower flashes: He’s talking about why and how they happen, where the inspiration comes from, and the goals he hopes to accomplish with each flower flash. This episode is all about beautifying the world through flowers!
5 Tips to Rediscover Joy and Motivation in Flowers
During the slow floral season, it is easy to lose motivation, especially when things seem so uncertain. Here are 5 practices to help restore your joy in floral work.
How the Power of Community Can Build Your Floral Business
A strong sense of community with the “floral competition” in your market can strengthen your business like never before—and here’s how it dramatically impacted my floral business. Lift the community up; we are stronger together.
Repurposing Flowers with Shawn Chamberlain of The Full Bloom
Shawn is sharing her heart behind repurposing flowers and what inspires her to continue to live out this passion. We are chatting about what it looks like to repurpose flowers, how to network in the industry, and how to find volunteers. Shawn is sharing a few practical tips for florists who would like to practice repurposing flowers, whether that becomes a large-scale donation or a simple one-time donation.
Creating Functional Flower Recipes for More Efficient Ordering
If you've tried implementing flower recipes into your ordering and design process before and found it cumbersome, I get it. Read on for a new way to create flower recipes—enter the functional flower recipe—which gives you the ability to flex and be inspired by seasonal flowers.
Video: Create Cocktail Table Centerpieces with One Ingredient
Can you really make a beautiful cocktail accent arrangement using only ONE ingredient? Kelly shows you how in this short tutorial! She demonstrates how to maximize both budget and style by purposefully placing every stem, leaf, and bloom, bringing the principles of design to life in this sweet piece. Knowing how to make an impact with a small amount of blooms is a great way to add value to your client's wedding designs.