tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91598436083843075062012-02-21T05:31:12.895-08:00Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04995066710271595615noreply@blogger.comBlogger244125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159843608384307506.post-24400175235845126392012-02-20T15:46:00.001-08:002012-02-21T05:29:39.473-08:00

December’s “You Deserve A Bouquet Today” contest winner is Dena. Dena’s sister Leann nominated her to win and wrote this about her sister: “Daily routines are never so simple, when a child you have had a stroke and is crippled. Dena, my sister, you are an inspiration. I know it is hard to deal with Sarah's condition. Here are some flowers to let you know I care. With your girls I hope you do

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As some of you may know, about six months ago we started the “You Deserve A Bouquet Contest”.  For those of you who haven’t heard of it, here’s how it works. Each month, you can submit someone’s name and a short write up about why they should win free flowers. It’s that easy. Readers vote at the end of the contest period and the nominee with the most votes wins. Then, I bring the winner free

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We are so excited to announce that Local Color Flowers is now accepting BNotes! If you haven’t heard of Baltimore Green Currency and the BNote-here’s a little overview. The BNote is local currency – real money that can be used for any local transaction at the 140 local businesses that accept the Bnote. You can check them all out in the Baltimore Green Currency Directory. Logistically, here’s

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I was in the elevator today at Johns Hopkins delivering Valentine’s Day flowers. A guy was in the elevator with me noticed the (super pretty) flowers and started asking me about them. How much did they cost? What was the vase made out of ? I started in on my “elevator speech” (IN AN ELEVATOR!). I said that the flowers were grown locally on Maryland flower farms. I explained how I go out each week

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February in Maryland is pretty awesome. Especially this year with mild temps and sunny days. This week we’ve had a great variety of flowers, foliage and flowering branches to work with. On Tuesday, I went down to Annapolis for the last Maryland Growers meeting before the season. This meeting is always fun, interesting and informative. It’s especially fun for me because I get to see some of my

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I would like to say that last week I escaped the cold of Baltimore and ran away to Florida. I did in fact visit Florida, but apparently it was almost the same temperature as Baltimore!  Heading to Florida was a great change of pace before weddings begin again. Eric and I visited my in-laws for a few days and then drove to the Keys for some R and R. Of course, no vacation is complete without

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I met Eleni and Peter at an open house at the Belvedere back in March. They were a super cute couple that seemed really excited about their October wedding. The Belvedere was the perfect location for this classic, yet modern couple. The bride carried a bouquet filled with white and dark purple/burgundy dahlias. The girls wore beautiful eggplant dresses with bouquets that were similar to the

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This morning, despite the cold temperatures, I headed out to pick up flowers for some of this weeks arrangements. I know that most people think that locally grown flowers are not available in January-but they’re wrong! The flowers I picked up this morning are just beautiful!  It’s easy to understand why one of my new fave color combinations is red and purple! There weren’t many available, but I

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Valentine’s Day is fast approaching and it’s  the biggest day of the year for flower sales across the country. I know that you’ve always been told to buy rose on Valentine’s Day. Roses are supposed to symbolize love. They are supposed to say I love you. I want you. I need you. You think you would be perceived as a sucky Valentine if you didn’t send a big bouquet of red roses. Right? WRONG. Now

Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04995066710271595615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159843608384307506.post-81852314114880431702012-01-15T08:36:00.001-08:002012-02-05T17:32:44.413-08:00

Back in November, I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the annual conference for the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers. Since I had never been to this national get together of flower growers, I spent the weeks before the conference asking our local growers what it was like-what I should expect. One of the highlights that I heard over and over again was about the Design

Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04995066710271595615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159843608384307506.post-83366068655652307412012-01-14T15:00:00.001-08:002012-01-14T15:00:52.935-08:00

When I first heard about Pinterest I thought, how on earth am I going to be “involved” another social media tool. I can’t do it. I already have the blog, and facebook and twitter and flickr  and linkedin. How will I ever add something else to the list? And then…I tried it. Pinterest is amazing. Ingenious. Addictive…and totally inspiring. It’s basically an online pin board or bulletin board

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It’s freezing here today. It was 13 degrees when I left the house this morning to go pick up flowers.  Everything along my drive was grey and dreary. Despite the cold, some of our regular growers were busy at work. At Plant Masters, Leon showed me some of the succulents he has growing that we at Local Color Flowers will  use for bouquets/boutonnieres and centerpieces this year. I also got

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Molly and Steve’s late Fall wedding was our last of the season. It was beautiful and fun-filled in so many ways. Molly is from Buffal0 and was referred by a friend of my cousin. I loved working with a fellow Buffalonian-especially one that wanted to include lots of ORANGE in her wedding. Molly was an absolutely beautiful bride. Her joy was evident in every photo taken of her. She carried a

Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04995066710271595615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159843608384307506.post-44282090076817064232011-12-28T10:51:00.001-08:002012-01-02T13:49:09.977-08:00

We here in the mid-Atlantic states are so lucky to have access to locally grown cut flowers year round! This year for our holiday centerpieces we used a great mix of tulips, ornamental cabbage, dusty miller, eucalyptus, winterberry and evergreens. (I loved these!) For larger buffet pieces we added white lilies, white snaps and red twig dogwood. Thanks to Farmhouse Flowers and Plant

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Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at Patterson Park Public Charter School’s Career Day. When Megan, one of the school’s teachers (and one of LoCoFlo’s awesome brides!) invited me to come, I was excited-but nervous! I love kids…I just don’t have a lot of experience talking to them-especially about work. When I arrived, I was excited and energized to see all of the diverse Career Day

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November’s bouquet contest was SERIOUS! We had seven nominees and the late night voting went down to the wire. Apparently, voting was taking place on both coasts and throughout the campus of McDaniel College right up until the midnight deadline. After all that voting, Local Color Flowers is happy to announce that this month’s winner, with 11,000 votes is Alyssa! Alyssa was nominated by her

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This Fall, I was excited to be able to work with Jodie and Roddy on their wedding flowers. Their style and creativity were inspiring. They both were excited to use succulents throughout the wedding and we had loads of options from Plant Masters to work with. Jodie carried a bouquet filled dahlias, succulents, herbs and a variety of greens. It was a beautiful, natural look for October. Jodie

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Last week I took a couple of road trips to some of my favorite farms to learn how to make holiday wreaths. Dave Dowling of Farmhouse Flowers showed me the basic technique for creating green wreath bases. We went out and walked around the farm picking boxwood, leland cyprus, holly and some  pretty spruce. We started by clamping bunches of greens on to a metal wreath base using a wreath making “

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I absolutely loved everything about Katie and Matt’s wedding. From the night I met Katie and her mom and grandmom, I knew we were going to hit it off. We spent a lovely, rainy evening in Beth Bailey’s office talking about all things flowers! Katie wanted a natural, color, beautiful palette for her wedding flowers. She also wanted to use her grandmom’s antique jars and bottles for the centerpieces

Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04995066710271595615noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159843608384307506.post-7165545879333174102011-11-29T06:56:00.001-08:002011-12-11T10:34:53.127-08:00

This year, we started doing weekly flowers for a couple of small businesses here in Baltimore. It’s been a lot of fun showcasing the changing seasonal flowers week to week. The best part of using local flowers, is seeing the seasons change through the flowers that are available. It was this experience, that inspired me to start a “Flowers of the Month” club. This monthly offering will showcase

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Lauren and Brian’s wedding was such a treat to work on! They were married on Memorial Day weekend at the Baltimore Basilica.  The bride looked amazing! She carried a beautiful bouquet filled with white peonies, blue bachelor buttons and green Solomon’s seal. The bridesmaids carried similar bouquets with pink peonies. They looked so beautiful against their blue dresses. Brian’s

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This month we celebrate Karl! I was especially excited to deliver Karl’s flowers because he was our first male winner! He was nominated for the contest by his wife Jenny. Jenny wrote: Karl is not only a great husband and father, he is a great teacher. He has spent the last 16 years teaching at Roland Park Elementary and Middle - helping every child achieve. He gives unselfishly so that the

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On Sunday morning between flower deliveries, I headed over to Cylburn for an amazing morning of terrarium building. Tovah Martin, the author of The New Terrarium was on hand to teach and guide us.  I knew Tovah and I were kindred spirits when early on in her presentation she said “You think you’re here today to make a terrarium, you’re wrong. You’re here to change the world!”. Way to think big!

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At the end of June, I worked on charming wedding here in Baltimore. Ikumi and Chris were married on a beautiful June evening at Gramercy Mansion. When I met with Ikumi to talk about flowers she mentioned wanting shades of purple for her bouquet.  This was an exciting challenge to me because I couldn’t wrap my head around monochrome purple.  Purple means something different to everyone. When

Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04995066710271595615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159843608384307506.post-55756859444069088332011-11-11T11:31:00.001-08:002011-11-13T13:05:57.539-08:00

On Wednesday, as part of the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers conference, I got to go on a tour of Farmhouse Flowers in Brookeville, Maryland. Granted, I do make it out there most weeks to pick up flowers, but this was a different experience all together. First, there were probably 150 flower farmers there. It was so fun (and educational) to walk the farm with so many talented,

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