Strawberry Fields Forever

Welcome strawberry season! This cutie pie ceramic strawberry stuffed with fresh blooms.

Paired with our strawberry rose petal chocolate bar. And strawberry fields yummy candle

Strawberries are a delightful fruit that captures the essence of summer with every juicy bite. Whether enjoyed fresh on their own, garnishing a decadent dessert, or blended into a refreshing smoothie, strawberries offer a burst of sweetness that is hard to resist. Their vibrant red color and distinctive shape make them not only a treat for the taste buds but also a feast for the eyes. Rich in vitamin C and antioxidants, these berries are not only delicious but also nutritious. So next time you bite into a plump, ripe strawberry, savor the flavor and let it transport you to a sunny day in the berry patch.

What is a better gift for the mom’s in your life than our Strawberry Fields Bundle. Finished with your customized sentiment in the adorable matching card!

Spring is Here!

We here at Garden Girl Flowers love all the seasons, but especially spring!

As all the locally grown flowers are starting to bloom, and my garden is starting to pop up new and wonderful blooms. I just finished planting all my sweet pea seeds ( approximately) 30 varieties! They are a family favorite started by my Grandma, Mom, My Sister and I, and now our Daughters.

Sweet peas are the smell of spring to me, and always remind me of family. They grow so profusely I am always gifting them to neighbors, pharmacists and anyone I come across that needs a thank you or instant pick me up. Of course we use them in our bouquets this time of year along with anemones, poppies, and hyacinths. Tulips, narcissus, grape hyacinths, are all right around the corner. Nothing says I care about you better than these gorgeous happy blooms!

Spring Bulb Garden

You can also give the gift of spring bulbs. Our Spring Bulb Garden is an excellent gift that can be planted out in the garden after they have finished blooming to come back larger and with more blooms year after year. These also make a lovely housewarming, engagement, wedding, and anniversary gift. We hand deliver these all over the Eugene and Springfield area.

Fragrant Miniature Daffodils are one of our favorites of Spring

I encourage you to plant some spring seeds yourself even if just in a pot on your patio. There is nothing quite so joyful as watching your seeds grow into beautiful flowers!

Giving a Gift

We were recently discussing how much we enjoy the positive feedback we receive from businesses and clients that have weekly, biweekly, and monthly flowers delivered.

These clients and customers always comment on how much their floral bouquets brighten and lift their spirits! They look forward to receiving them each time.

Some are businesses that have our bouquets on their front counters to greet their clients…

Some have us fill their own houses with bouquets because of how they make them feel…

Some are thoughtful gifts of floral bouquets weekly, biweekly, and monthly. …

These can set up for a month, months, year, or years. They can be paid in advance, or paid each time they are delivered.

Did you know that studies have been done on the positive effects of fresh flowers around you. It’s true!

I mean really how could you not be with beautiful flowers around you!

We love doing flowers, because flowers make people happy! Call us today you won’t be disappointed.

Fresh Flower Care

I thought I would address this question, because I get at least 1 call a day requesting this information. Most important thing you can do to care for your bouquet is fresh cold water added daily. Take your bouquet to your Kitchen sink, add water without spilling excess water on to the blooms. If the water is murky or discolored, you may need help to dump the water out and add fresh water, or you can gently push the flowers to the side and run cold water from your tap to flush out the contaminated water. Next location. Do not place flowers where they will get heated, like a window, on top of an appliance, or near a vent blowing hot air. If I want flowers on my mantel, I just close my vent that blows there. Keeping the flowers cool will make them last longer. My mom always places them outside at night, or in a garage would work too. Also a light mist of water helps too. You can also snip off any spent or bloomed out stems to keep your bouquet looking fresh. Feel free to comment and leave any of your care tips you would like to share. Also Take a photo with your bouquet and send it to the person who sent them to you, I guarantee it will put a smile on their face too.

Romantic Florals

Romantic Floral Bouquets are not just for Weddings. They are for Anniversaries, Holidays, Birthdays, and Special Moments. They can also just be because you care about someone and want to show them. I like to find out as much as I can about who the flowers are for.. repeat the descriptive words the person who ordered told me about them and then be inspired. Inspiration is key for Anniversary Flowers, Wedding Flowers, or whatever to feel special. Favorite colors are helpful, are strong scents ok, feminine, masculine, artistic, sporty, sophisticated, and so on. All of these descriptions help to achieve the most beautiful flower bouquet for each person.

How do you learn something like this about a person??? What color do they wear most? Paint their nails or style? color of car or style? What colors do they have most in their home or style? Do they like to always try new things? Do you know if they like to garden, or always have roses, succulents, or are a houseplant lover?

Do they wear strongly scented perfume or cologne? They would probably love Fragrant Lilies in their bouquet. Are they more classic and love whites and greens…me too! But also they may love something completely different and love surprises… just let me create something for you that I think is the most beautiful or inspirational today….. and just tell me your budget or size you are looking for. One thing I always say is,” if it’s not good enough for my Mom then I will not send it.” I want to cause emotion of happiness, tears are great too! Everyone deserves to have flowers in their life. For any or no occasion at all!

Flowers make people happy! So give someone flowers today.

Succulent Fall Wreath

Well this last weekend it finally rained! It is finally feeling a bit like fall. The feeling in the air is perfection, cool mornings and evenings, perfect 70’s in the day. This just makes me want to decorate for fall. We have fall wreaths coming in all types, rosehips, succulents, willow, dried flower custom wreaths, and pampas grass wreaths. All could be used as a centerpiece, display and focal as a piece of art inside your home, or hung on your front door for a festive display. The fun part is doing all this your way and letting your style shine through. Add orange, green, pink, or white pumpkins to your porch with a wreath, and you are done. Or add some ornamental kale in pots and a lantern with some solar string lights for a bigger statement. My favorite wreath/ centerpiece is the succulent wreath. What an amazing gift for yourself or someone you care about. It is overflowing with so many unique and interesting plants you will love Happy Fall Everyone! Have fun decorating.

Wildflower Bouquet

Wildflower bouquets are one of my favorite designs to make. They are always so full of life! The flowers mostly come from my garden for this bouquet so don’t be surprised to find a ladybug or two climbing around in your bouquet. Right now the garden is wild with so many things blooming—- the honey bees are loving it. We have cosmos, perennial sunflowers, annual sunflowers, scabiosa, zinnias, dahlias, marigolds, alliums, grasses, pods, chinese lanterns, black and blue sage, russian sage, lavender verbena, honeysuckle, and so many more. I love all of these it is really hard to pick a favorite. Wildflower style bridal bouquets and crowns have also been very popular this year too. This flowers are mostly delicate and add so much movement to the garden as the wind blows, or the birds jump on them or the hummingbirds collect their nectar. I love to sit and watch all these things happening in my wildflower garden. It makes me so filled with peace and joy knowing I can provide food and a beautiful space for all these magnificent creatures. I also try to always include some kind of seed pod, so the seeds and be planted and grow into beautiful flowers for years to come…marking the occasion they were given for. Sometimes Birthdays, anniversaries, and even sympathy. I feel that each Wildflower Bouquet I create is filled with love and life. I am usually apologizing to the honey bees, dragonflies, hummingbirds, and chickadees, and talking to them when I go out to cut flowers for my bouquets—-not wanting to disturb them. Its my little slice of heaven, and each bouquet I make I hope in turn gives the recipient a little slice of heaven too.

corona virus!

Gosh, kind of overwhelmed a bit by everything going on in the world.

This corona virus, is making people crazy!

I call to check on family to make sure everyone is ok.

I can only listen to a limited amount of tv news.

So what do I do when I feel this way?

Escape to my garden. I dig , pull, and plant, and I always feel better.

The sunshine on my skin, is a very welcome friend.

Painting garden furniture, washing outside windows and doors.

And then I spot a stray flower coming up in the middle of the lawn………..

pure joy.

Summertime in My Garden

Every winter I dream of what my garden will be….

I dream of flowering arches, with petals blowing in the wind.

Vibrant carpets of scotch moss, glowing dianthus, and corsican mint.

Italian terracotta pots overflowing with every type of fern you can think of.

All of the delicious scents. Spicy, sweet, fruity. Pineapple mint, lemon verbena, David Austin roses.

Every summer seems like the first time. I have never seen this before. It has never done that before….Surprises!!!

I could live in my garden in the summer. Watering, weeding, dead heading, pruning, sculpting, planting, and replanting.

But time seems to speed up in the spring and summer.

There is never enough time to do it all.

To make all my dreams come true…

Before I know it I am not carefully planting my beautifully chosen seed varieties,

I am running through the garden tearing the packages open, shaking the seeds out everywhere. throwing handfuls of dirt on top.

Hoping, wishing, waiting, and wondering if any of them will bloom at all.

Now in full summer sun and heat,

I start to see beautiful, magical, fragrant flowers appear. I am happy. So happy!

My Husband teases I care more about the flowers than him or the dog.

Maybe because I only have these little creations for a few weeks.

Maybe because my children are grown and need me less.

Or maybe because it is where I belong…

In my garden, petals blowing, magical seeds growing, lemon and mint under my feet, hummingbirds and dragonflies that I greet,..

I am happy. I am at peace. It’s summertime in my garden.

Winter wonderland

Every year my husband and I go away to the snow as our gift to each other. It truly is a gift. We both love the snow! We go on so many walks, which Milo ( our boxer) loves too. This year we decided to rent a tiny cabin at Shady Cove. It was picture perfect when it wasn’t snowing there were peeks of blue sky and sunshine. The cabin had a large front window to watch the snow fall, and see its beautiful icing like effect on everything. Sometimes you could see the lake and sometimes it was just a white glow beyond the edge of the trees,

Mostly we like to go because if we are at home we are constantly doing so many things…………….

Its crazy but I hardly cook anymore. I used to love it, but my husband does most of the cooking now and its wonderful. He has a gift. I just have been so busy starting a new business and trying to keep up with all the social media stuff. I am a lucky girl and am very thankful for my sweet Steve. I feel truly grateful for my family and friends and positive impact they have on my life and those I love.

I hope that everyone’s holidays were just how you like them, and may this New Year of 2019 bring us all, more peace,better health, great friendships, personal growth, and limitless kindness.

Dahlias!!!!Dahlias!!!!!Dahlias!!!!!

I can think of no better way to start my Monday morning than by strolling through my new friend Linda's garden. Her Garden is kind of secret. I never knew it existed and probably most of Eugene. But her Dahlias are like 8ft tall!!! There is every size from Dinnerplate which can be 10" to Pompon which are 1-2". Then there are their shapes;single, peony, anemone, collarette, waterlily, ball, pom-pon, cactus, semi-cactus, decorative,and dinnerplate. I feel a little bit like Alice in Wonderland especially since I am only 5'6' and most of her garden towers over me. The pathways are narrow and in some spots the dahlias almost connect overhead to form a beautiful rainbow flower tunnel. Another wonderful thing about dahlias is they have no scent which is wonderful for all of us with allergies. Oh yes, the colors....this is the hardest part for me to choose. I have to walk all through her garden probably 2x's before I pick anything. Then I start I pick some with long stems and try to pick some of the ones that are already bent and short that I can use up. I don't know why but I never go for the yellow ones. I like the color yellow...but not solid yellow dahlias. I had to pick a couple canna leaves and flax too because the spoke to me. stay tuned to my instagram for pictures and Happy Monday!!!!

Summer camping in Oregon

Soon after I found out that I had thyroid cancer, my Husband and I were on the hunt for a camp trailer. I think it was 2012.  We found one pretty quickly, and man was it ugly! It was a 70's camper, with gold and brown interior so dark, it felt like night, even at midday. The curtains were so thick and heavy, I felt as though I was suffocating. The price was right though, and it had character. This project took my mind off the cancer, and gave me something fun to dream about. So instead of worrying of cancer, my curly head was dreaming of camping.

We fixed it all up many coats of white paint. I made new turquoise vinyl cushions. Steve installed new flooring. I sewed new curtains, and added some finishing touches. Steve took care of all the mechanical issues. We were done. And I was done with my treatment.

Our first trip was fun. Not exactly what I imagined, as we awoke to snow falling! It was crazy! It was beautiful!! It was like a dream...

Bridal Shoot with Madeline Jane.

This was such a fun day driving around town in search of our favorite spots. Madeline looking gorgeous in this blush strapless gown. I had collected so many treasures from my own garden and from local growers. The peonies were beautiful and gigantic, in shades of coral, peach, and pink. Sweet peas from Green Gable Farms with long stems and beautiful tendrils. It was my first inspirational photo shoot on my own with my new business. I was feeling every emotion scared, excited, happy, nervous, and probably ten others!!!

As we started taking photos and getting into it, I think we both just let go and enjoyed every last minute. I was watching my Daughter, and as I did her beauty inspired me. She inspired me to keep going to be scared, to be nervous, or happy. She was proud of me, and I of her. This was a day I will never forget. My daughter beautiful inside and out, inspiring me, helping me. Becoming who I was truly meant to be.

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