Flowers are a wonderful way to make any wedding day special. There are many ways to choose beautiful and sustainably grown and arranged flowers.
Flowers that are locally grown have a much smaller carbon footprint than flowers flown thousands of miles in refrigerated containers. By choosing locally grown flowers for your wedding décor, you are getting fresh, high-quality blooms and can be a cost-effective option.
Spring brings thoughts of beautiful, colorful, fragrant blooms that brighten up our landscapes after a long winter.
But we aren't the only ones on the lookout for flowers. Pollinators are looking for them also. Heirloom flowers provide these pollinators with more of the resources they require.
Bring nature to the table this Thanksgiving by creating decorations from collected natural materials. Fall is a great time to explore outdoors and use what you find almost directly in arrangements after gathering.
Make sure to collect when material is dry. Damp material breaks down more quickly. Collect more than needed because dried material is fragile. Choose only material that is free of insect and disease damage.
Easter is just around the corner. Have you purchased you Easter lily yet? If not, be sure to choose an Easter lily with lots of unopened buds for longer bloom enjoyment.
The popular Easter lily is the Christian symbol of purity, innocence, and chastity. But this particular lily has been popular for eons. In the Semitic world, it is the symbol of motherhood. It was the flower of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, and was later the flower of Roman Goddess's Diana and Venus.