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I took this day of rest thing to heart and spent the weekend resting as much as I could make myself. Less than one week until Mother's Day! This year I'm teaming up with Jaymie, aka @bloommonger to bring back the bucket shop. While we strongly encourage you to pre-order before Tuesday May 6th, she will be rocking wrapped bouquets for walk-ins on both Saturday and Sunday May 10&11 from 10-2. Wrapped bouquet pre-orders close on Tuesday May 6th and I will only be taking orders until my schedule is full so get your orders in ASAP if you want to BE SURE we will have flowers with your Mama's name on them. If you want to make an extra...

Apparently daily was too big of a commitment. I was excited to learn how to create a post on my phone after the letters "e" and "r" both stopped working on my laptop. You'd be amazed how little can be Saud without those 2 letters! So, here we are on another Sunday after only one other post thus week all the way back on Tuesday. So maybe it's just a Sunday thing. Learning g to be gentler with myself when I bite off more than I can chew. This Easter Sunday I am headed out to gather curly willow and maybe some other spring greens. It is still a bit early for some of my favorites and orders have been...

Flowers and foliage as both medium and muse can be a soothing meditation on the ephemeral nature of, well, nature. A way to truly immerse ourselves in the beauty available to us right now. We need to see and create beauty right now more than ever.     

My goodness, where does the time go? Trying really hard to be kind to myself for not having been here since April. And when I was I barely typed one line. I really thought that posting once a month would be feasible.I'm pretty accustomed to all of May disappearing but I feel like so much time has passed in a blur this year. I thought maybe if I just slowed down enough to write about what was blooming and showing up in my arrangements each month it would be a way to mark the time. Then we got into wedding season and now there's so many things blooming and so many different things going into my arrangements I don't even...

One of the things I get asked most often is "what should I plant? ( in order to have great things to cut?) At least once a month I'm going to dig into what local flowers, foliage and textures I'm using, show you my favorites and what I'm doing with them. While I'm not a gardener so I can't advise on how to grow them. I can curate a list for you of the plants that I would most want to see in my cutting garden. Current favorites I'd recommend are: Tulip or Star Magnolia Dogwood- Any kind! Right now buds are showing up on the flowering varieties that will pop open if brought indoors Fantail Pussywillow Deciduous Huckleberry By...