Everlasting Blooms.
From seed to bloom. We grow, harvest and create as much of our products as possible on site.
Color. Texture. Art.
Creating art from everlasting blooms is truly a multi-faceted process and a delight.
I begin each winter with seed selection and garden planning for the next season. Attention is paid to colors, shapes, textures and volume while I make these decisions. I love variety and grow many different species of blooms for my dried floral work.
In the late winter and early spring, I begin sowing seeds and starting corms and tubers indoors. As the warmth and light return, this process moves back outside into the yard.
Much of summer I spend sitting and watching the pollinators. The garden is alive with the buzzing and humming and flitting of so many different species of insects and it’s one of my favorite accidental discoveries when transforming this backyard space from a grassy monoculture to a thriving (mini) ecosystem. Gardening like this has been a practice in holding on and letting go and trusting that nature will find it’s balance.
Harvesting includes cutting, hydrating, bundling and hanging the different blooms, seed pods and foliages. Finding the proper cutting windows has been a challenge. It’s a real bummer when you miss it, but a downright delight when you nail it.
A few weeks later, the materials are dried and might hang there for a while longer or might get stowed in a tote for safekeeping. Like nature, I find my rhythms seasonally and winter is for hibernating and creating pretty things from the past seasons’ harvest.
Delicate cress to the old standby strawflowers. Stems of celosia with their beautiful textured cockscomb. The many petals of hybrid tea roses and the individual stems of clary sage. The process of producing artisan everlastings is a slow, sensory experience that teaches me to slow down and let go.
Growing Fresh, Preserving Beauty
We're dedicated to slow flower practices. That means we prioritize growing as many of our own products as possible or sourcing them locally when needed. By growing and harvesting our own florals, grasses, and seed pods, we can preserve these natural elements at their peak freshness, ensuring each bouquet is bursting with life.
