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Sunday flowers.

Sunday flowers.

This lisianthus, though, how can it even be real?!

This lisianthus, though, how can it even be real?! I didn’t think I’d love the saturated color as much as the blush ones I grew last year, but this is its own kind of beautiful! The rest of the flowers are looking pretty good tonight too!

For those of you here only for the pretty flowers

For those of you here only for the pretty flowers—just keep scrolling! 😂. This post is about compost. I have had a home compost tumbler for years, but never had great success at getting it to fully compost. Even if it eventually broke down pretty well, it would never get as hot as it should to kill all the weed seeds. Finally this year I tried to be more careful about making a good mix. I filled it with veggie scraps AND lots of mulched leaves and shredded newspapers to get a good carbon/nitrogen ratio. It was cooking along ok- around 100-110 degrees F the last couple weeks. Then I got some spent mycelium from @flat12mushrooms and thoroughly mixed it in. After a couple days, I found it getting up to 134- the hottest my home compost bin has ever gotten! Here’s hoping the weeds won’t be so bad from this next compost batch. 🤞🏼 (Also, fyi, @flat12mushrooms is selling their spent mycelium for $15 a box or $50 for 6 boxes!)

Starting seeds year-round. These are hardy annual

Starting seeds year-round. These are hardy annuals that I will plant out in September in hopes of blooms next spring. #coolflowers

Beauty at the farm today. @5loavesfarm CSA member

Beauty at the farm today. @5loavesfarm CSA members will be getting beautiful posies put together by these talented girls.

After a long day of weeding, planting, and waterin

After a long day of weeding, planting, and watering, I snapped this pic in a magical golden moment while the sun was setting. I’m obsessed with these glowing faces and how they’re all turning out at different angles.

These zinnia’s are GLOWING.

These zinnia’s are GLOWING.

Edit: sold out! Thanks everyone. I really felt t

Edit: sold out! Thanks everyone. I really felt the love this week!! 💕
Due to the virus, I’m bummed to not be able to supply bouquets to @emwyoga this summer. But I’ve decided to hold a little flash sale so these beauties don’t go to waste! 🎉 💐 Today through tomorrow I’ll have gorgeous summer bouquets available for $15 to pick-up (after 4 pm today) on my front porch! Message me for address and to arrange payment! ☺️ (You can pay via cash, check, PayPal or Venmo.) Feel free to share on Instagram or Facebook if you have someone in your life who could use some fresh flowers today!

Thank goodness that the heat finally broke!! This

Thank goodness that the heat finally broke!! This morning I reveled in the cool morning and allowed myself to arrange flowers for fun, playing around with photographing them. It can be hard to find a balance when the thing you love is also your business but this year, more than ever before, I’ve made it a goal to nourish my soul’s need for beauty along with the work.

Bees on zinnias, a gallery.

Bees on zinnias, a gallery.

“Look up, my friend, the world is too beautiful

“Look up, my friend, the world is too beautiful for my eyes alone.”
🌸 🌾 ☀️ 🐝
(Not sure who said this originally, but there was a philosophy club in college that had this on their t shirts and it’s stuck with me ever since.)

I just threw away away 2 indiscernible bags of mus

I just threw away away 2 indiscernible bags of mushy herbs from my veggie drawer yesterday. I always feel like there is about 4x’s as much as I can use in a bunch. (Unless it’s basil, I can always use more basil🍃.) Check out these adorable mixed herb and edible flower bouquets that you can get from @5loavesfarm (look for the orange tent) at @evfarmersmarket tomorrow! A little bit of everything and the prettiest bunch of herbs you can buy. This week each bouquet has dill, fennel, basil, and oregano, as well as a mix of edible flowers.

My style of brown paper packages. ☺️

My style of brown paper packages. ☺️

I received this gorgeous piece of embroidery by @m

I received this gorgeous piece of embroidery by @missledebur in the mail this week and I’m absolutely smitten. Can’t wait to frame it so I can enjoy looking at it all the time. Thanks, Anneliese!!

Tonight’s saturated colors captured at golden ho

Tonight’s saturated colors captured at golden hour. ❤️Summer flowers are coming in strong! 💪🏾 Mid-summer subscriptions will start next week. A few 10 week and 4 week subscriptions are still available - check out the link in bio to sign up. Pictured here: rocket rose snapdragons, mission giant yellow marigolds (my new favorite🤩), sweet pea, godetia grace salmon, larkspur, and rudbeckia.

I’m so excited about these gorgeous herb and edi

I’m so excited about these gorgeous herb and edible flower bouquets I made with @5loavesfarm. They will be available at @evfarmersmarket tomorrow morning! There are 2 options: a cocktail bouquet with mint, lemon balm, bee balm, lavender, honeysuckle, and feverfew. Or a culinary bouquet with sage, oregano, basil, thyme, arugula flowers, and feverfew. Come grab one of each and enjoy beautiful fresh herbs all week long. They smell incredible AND look beautiful in a vase. 💐 ⚔️ 🍸 👩‍🍳

I realize that my bouquets don’t look like tradi

I realize that my bouquets don’t look like traditional floral arrangements. There are many reasons for that- but it’s partly that florists use a lot of large focal flowers. They create a recipe that can be recreated hundreds of times and will always look like the picture on their website. They know how much each stem costs and the fewer the stems the less labor per arrangement etc... it’s efficient and smart, but my business just doesn’t work that way.
I’m learning to grow more focal flowers- they do fill an arrangement with large pops of color and yes, fewer stems means a lot less work. But I also really enjoy the complexity of using unique seasonal flowers. They smell better! ☺️Sometimes they are more fragile, more fleeting, but all the more to be treasured. Featured in this bouquet is Godetia, Agrostemma, Nigella pods, Foxglove, Monarda (bee balm) and Lady’s Mantle.

Right now my heart feels a little like these bleed

Right now my heart feels a little like these bleeding hearts. 2020 is really testing our mettle. Last night we had hail the size of cherries and the worst flooding I have seen in this neighborhood. My garden definitely took a beating and I haven’t even been to @5loavesfarm yet to see the damage there. It’s pretty disheartening. But to keep this in perspective- plants are resilient. It’s still June and I can start new trays of seedlings. This may slow the start of my flower season (I probably won’t have bouquets for Thursday pick up this week) but it won’t ruin it. I’m not sure how widespread the hail was, but I’m concerned about our urban and local farms. And I’m worried about the neighbors in my community who have already been set back by the virus, shaken by the injustice and fall-out of the protests and now have flooding and storm damage around deal with. This is the third day in a row we’ve needed clean up in various parts of the city- first due to protests and now the storm. So please, check in with your neighbors. Many people have poured extra love into their gardens this year and now this. Text your local growers/farmers and check in to see how they’re doing today. I feel like the whole city could use a mental health day right now, but I know there are still essential workers who are getting up and heading out to work. Be extra kind to them today. “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.”

I haven’t said anything on this account about po

I haven’t said anything on this account about police violence or the protests this week because I don’t think my voice is the one that needs to be heard right now. Daily and hourly I learn new things that shape how I understand the situation- so who am I to try to speak up? But I also know that silence can be a form of complicity, so I feel like I have to say something...even if it is only this: I am listening. For those hurt and protesting, I see you and stand in solidarity with you. I hear you. I am educating myself and being intentional about talking with friends and with my kids about what is going on. I am hoping and praying for justice and reform and demilitarization and eventually reconciliation.

Hi! 👋 I’m Christy. I’ve had some new follow

Hi! 👋 I’m Christy. I’ve had some new followers so I thought I should introduce myself. I love living on Buffalo’s West Side and I love growing things! I started with vegetables about 12 years ago but now I’m addicted to flowers. In order to keep my sanity and because I’m passionate about enjoying what is seasonal, I only offer fresh flowers from what I can grow during Buffalo’s short growing season. During the season you can buy a subscription if you’d like weekly flowers. I also create arrangements for special occasions, but in order to manage this while homeschooling my kids, I prefer 48 hours notice and I don’t offer delivery. Usually I just design with what ever is in peak in the garden at the moment, but you can request a specific color scheme and I’ll try to oblige if it’s available. I don’t usually do weddings but occasionally I have for friends. (If you’re looking for a great wedding florist check out my friend Fran from @heirloomsoulfloral.)
(Fun fact: if I had to do my wedding over again, I’d pick the same groom but I’d totally redo my bouquet! This one might be my favorite of all time!)

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