Crazy days of summer!

This summer has been quite a wild one so far! The rain seems to never stop and neither does the photoshoots, the weddings, the gardening and the calls for deliveries! Itseems like we have never been busier and it's such a great feeling!

We recently did a photoshoot at the arboretum with studio Mathewes photography, which was very exciting and colorful! Coming up this week we have a couple weddings and the Asheville indie wedding photoshoot! 

The garden has been bursting with blooms! We have been very fortunate to pick peonies, roses, hydrangeas, allium, tulips, herbs, lambs ear, dusty miller, clematis, astilbe, iris, poppies, flowering branches and many more from our gardens! Thank you to all that have helped us and shared your blooms with us!

We also have a lot of new inventory in the shop! Many flower pots, planters, terrariums, etched mercury votives, and hanging hobnail vases and lanterns! We also have several handmade flower girl baskets and ring bearer pillows to our etsy site!

Come by the shop, join our mailing list, like our Facebook, and browse our etsy site!

Love,

Team Flora

THE FLORA GARDEN

Happy Summer, Flora fans!

We can't stop "ooh-ing" and "ahh-ing" over the beautiful blooms popping up in our garden this season.  We LOVE using local blooms, and strive to as much as possible, but it doesn't get much better than home-grown!  Here's what's blooming this week!  Stop by the shop sometime, and we'll show you in person! <3 div="">

 

  

The Flora Garden!

We put a lot of love into our Flora garden last week!  Seeds were planted, an entire bed was relocated for more sunlight, and we weeded, mulched and fertilized to ensure we'll have some BEAUTIFUL blooms within the coming months!  Stop by the shop, and we'll take you on a tour!

Look what's coming up already!......

Have You Seen Our Terrariums?

Here at Flora we love terrariums of all kinds- plants, succulents, open-air, enclosed--You name it!  We're gearing up for Spring, and are preparing to teach some terrarium building classes in our shop where we'll teach the basics of terrarium-building and what goes into making them live forever!  

In the class, you'll get to practice your new-found skills, and take home a living, breathing terrarium of your very own!  

Check back soon for more information on this, and other classes we'll be offering for kids and adults this Spring!

Our thumbs are green-- and our business is too!

We wanted to share with our Flora friends the ways in which we're trying to be green (and go even greener)!  We've begun offering "green vessels" in our shop, for carry-out flowers! Ok, so really, they're just cans, but we love giving them makeovers and a second chance at life!  This means we can offer our customers the option of a very inexpensive vessel for a takeaway arrangement.

Another way we're going green is by reusing our votive cups, and recycling our candle wax after events.  We donate the wax to local candle makers-- and we even carry some of these candles in the shop!

We also love foraging here at Flora!  Hunting for local foliage, berries, and seasonal blooms around the area is one of our favorite pastimes.  We also try our best to buy lots of our floral from local growers and flower farms in order to minimize our carbon footprint.  Just last Fall we found ourselves in the middle of nowhere, cutting our own cotton out of the field, with a new friend who happens to own a cotton gin.  Who knew being a florist could be full of so much adventure!?

THE BIG DAY: Indie Weddings & Celebrations Fair

Hey Friends of Flora!

We are giddy with excitement to be included in the lineup at next month's Indie Wedding Festival!  The Big Crafty and Asheville Indie Weddings have teamed up to bring you this local craft event all about weddings!  

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Details:

March 30, 2013

Asheville Art Museum

1PM - 6PM

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Our dear friend, Jennifer, of Asheville Indie Weddings will give you the details:

"On Saturday March 30 at the Asheville Art Museum in downtown Asheville we will present The Big Day: Indie Wedding and Celebrations Fair. In contrast to large scale, traditional wedding fairs, which can be impersonal and overwhelming for couples and vendors, The Big Day will reflect the spirit of indie craft fairs and combine it with wedding vendors showing work that is current and design-conscious. The juried show will present a select 70 vendors with 3 to 5 vendors representing each wedding category. The fair and indie craft market will serve couples looking to book all their wedding vendors, as well as those couples looking to add a few handmade details to their celebration. The event will include traditional wedding vendors (for example, venues, photographers, catering, etc.) with crafters and artists who make a variety of wedding accoutrements (for example, jewelry, letterpress invitations, handmade décor, accessories etc.). Couples can book a wedding photographer at one booth, taste wedding cake at the booths of pastry chefs, or purchase handmade elements on the spot from crafters. The Big Day will also include models featuring handmade attire, DIY demos, live music, local breweries, a raffle and a swag bag for the first 100 couples. This is the perfect event for style conscious couples, who want to plan a locally inspired wedding that is creative and left of center."

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Needless to say, we are getting our craft on here at Flora!  We can't wait to see you there!  Purchase advance tickets here!

Love Letters

It's love letters like these that make all the crazy crafting and flower hours worthwhile!  We LOVE our job!

Hi Lissa,

We're about to leave for our honeymoon in Greece, but we wanted to send you a quick note to say thank you. Lissa, we LOVED what you did with our wedding. I seriously cannot imagine anything more perfect. You brought our vision to life in the most beautiful and impressive way. The flowers, the way you displayed all the details...incredible.  I was pretty anxious about the precarious weather situation, which had dampened my mood a bit, but as soon as I walked in and saw how you had transformed Claxton Farm, I couldn't help but beam with happiness. We got so many compliments. Thank you for being a critical part of creating our dream wedding! :)  We absolutely loved it!

Much love,

Melissa & Neil

Flowers can be recycled, too!

Ever wondered what happens to flowers after weddings are over?  Well, at  f l o r a  we try to make sure they're put to good use, and enjoyed a second time over!  These are a few arrangements we've put together to send to our friends at Meals on Wheels.  They take our mini, recycled-container arrangements along with meals to shut-ins of the Asheville area!  

A special thank you this week to our new neighbors and friends at The Bloom Room in West Asheville for donating some of their leftover flowers for our arrangements, as well!

Look what's GROWING at f l o r a !!

Our garden is taking off, folks!  We're so excited to be growing our very own flowers and herbs for the summer months!  We're the proud parents of two raised-bed plots and a succulent garden--- not to mention the many potted plants and succulents inside the store!  They're growing up so fast, our little baby seedlings will be moving out and going off to college before we know it!  Cheers to green thumbs!

We Love Our Mamas!

Here's a sneak peek of what some lucky Asheville mamas are receiving tomorrow!  We're still accepting orders for Mother's Day pick-up and delivery, and will be open from 10am - 5pm tomorrow!  (828) 252.8888