The theme of this year’s Northwest Flower & Garden Show — A Taste of Spring — inspired my “Floral Feast” entry for the floral design competition. It is fitting that I borrowed from…
When florist Tammy Myers of First and Bloom was planning her Valentine’s Day pop-up on February 13 & 14 on the HQ campus of a major Seattle-area online company, she searched for…
With the average cost of a wedding pegged at $28,000, according to The Wedding Report, it is clearly a buyers’ market for betrothed couples. Slow Flowers members reveal that mindful couples who…
If you’ve attended any Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers (ASCFG) conferences or Growers’ Schools in the past few years, I bet you’ve met Hillary Alger. Hillary is passionate about growing flowers…
“Wildflowers and native plants are as much a part of our national heritage as Old Faithful or the Capitol Building.” — Lady Bird Johnson I spent one May day last year wandering…
Get creative with these inspiring ideas for planting summer-blooming bulbs! Our friends at Longfield Gardens, 2017 sponsors of Slow Flowers, just shared these design ideas that you’ll want to check out. If (like…
On March 6th, Anne Bradfield of Seattle-based Floressence and I teamed up to teach an intimate session at her studio in Georgetown. This was the fourth Slow Flowers Creative Workshop (SFCW) that I’ve…
A Conversation with Debra Prinzing, Founder of Slowflowers.com This Q&A was conducted by Heather Saunders, photographer and author of Flower House Detroit, for inclusion in the opening pages of the book. One…
Editor’s Note: This “Meet the Growers” profile originally appeared in the January 2017 issue of Florists’ Review, accompanying a feature called “Four Seasons of Floral Design.” The story began when florist Kelly…
Last month, Susan McLeary of Passionflower, an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based floral artist, worked with a group of Seattle designers to teach her Floral Jewelry techniques. An intimate group of about 12 of…