One truth we’ve had hammered into our human heads during this trying time is that we are infinitely able to deal with change. Oh it may not be pretty, and we may go kicking and screaming, but unlike most every other creature on the planet we have the ability to adapt and change on a dime. I’m personally incredibly proud of every couple who forged ahead, married, and did it their way despite the pandemic, and equally proud of every couple who made the difficult decision to postpone or cancel their wedding.
Here at Design In Bloom we’ve seen an incredible amount of change in a year. We’ve moved our studio and office and home to a larger property and can now boast a dedicated 1500sf design space and production rows in the garden for flowers. In the past the flowers from our garden have been from our garden - we did not have rows and rows of blooms as you might see on a blog from a flower farmer. Our blooms for design work have always been incorporated into landscape beds or cute little raised beds tucked into a corner because of HOA restrictions. While I am super excited about the shiny new design space with double doors and easy loading from cooler to truck, it’s these new flower garden rows that are floating my boat right now. We can grow 600 seedlings at any one time in our beds, and another 120 in raised beds. And that doesn’t take into account our woodies or dahlia beds! It’s a big step toward vertical integration and keeping it local, sustainable, and as organically grown as possible. We’re now a micro flower farm and floral design studio. How about that for accepting change and rolling with the punches?
Design In Bloom’s new home base will be here, in Madison County Virginia on the Greene County line. We’re smack dab between two great trout streams/rivers at the eastern base of Shenandoah National Park with an antique apple orchard next door. I’m as happy as a bee in a field of buckwheat in bloom. As the season gets going, and covid-19 hopefully becomes a memory, it will be fun to open up the studio and garden and invite ya’ll in to see what we’re doing. In the meantime, stay safe, wear your mask, hope to see you soon!
foxglove and feverfew seedlings almost ready for the garden