12/26/2025
Things I've found to be more true as my twenty years of growing things veers into my third year of professional flower farming...
Simple and less is usually better and prettier. I love working with just 2-3 types of flowers or colors in a bouquet and straight up same type flower bouquets are equally stunning. (Like lisanthus and ranunculus).
Yes you can stick to an exact # stems per price point. BUT I prefer to add in a few more blooms.
Why? Because you notice it on the receiving end.
Its flowers. Be bountiful and not stingy.
Nothing is set in stone. Not bloom time, growing environment, the weather, the services, the customers, the opportunities, the challenges.
With flowers (growing things) it's all a constant state of flex and your success with growing anything is to be in the flow of flexing.
You can grow something for ten years beautifully with ease and then have a year where it just doesn't.
If you want to grow (yourself or flowers or plants or animals or smaller humans) you have to carry an open mindset of willing to learn, grow and evolve.
There are many approaches to everything, not a single one of them is the only right way. In fact, the more ways you learn to go about things, the bigger toolkit you have when life sends you a curveball and the easier it is to handle it.
You will fail. Hopefully only at a few things per season. Haha. Dust the dirt off and try again or try another way.
Nature will win. It cannot be tamed. But you can learn how she flows and moves and learn to move with her. And sometimes nature will just be relentless. Still you keep planting.
Your year one will not look like anyone else's year one. Your year two will not par up with someone's year 20. Your 20 years will still not win against nature. (🤣) but as you begin and accumulate seasons after seasons you will figure out a way THROUGH all of it.
Mostly I will sum it up with this. You must have an appreciation for the process, for the seasons, for how things grow. You must love the flowers. And every point before and after they bloom.
Cause it's hard, really hard.
But, if it calls you, follow it.
