What a great week we just had! Nine talented, motivated and creative girls just spent six hours a day from Monday to Friday learning a thousand new things about flowers and how to use them in creative ways. Along the way they met friends, new and old, dressed up in outlandish costumes and helped to write and direct themselves in an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Yes, Macbeth, and the final scene was performed around a steaming witch’s cauldron of spells and mystery performed to parents seated at tables carefully set for tea by the campers and adorned with all manner of floral creations they made during the week.
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. -Diane Arbus

For Independence Day, I found a red, white, and blue photo to post.
No, That's not Santa Claus coming to the florist early. It's our maintenance man, Steve, fixing a leaky return valve in the overhead water piping that could have flooded us out last week. We were working late on Friday for a Saturday wedding and Lauren walked into the toilet (Margaret calls it "the "loo") and encountered a waterfall. It seems a heavy brass return valve up there decided to call it quits and, without any provocation, cracked and started spewing water everywhere. My lack of plumbing skill is only exceeded by my lack of enthusiasm for plumbing, but I managed to find a knob to turn which stopped water coming into the shop, thus controlling the leak. It also meant we had no water in the shop at all so we had to finish setting up the wedding by hauling in water from an outside connection. Fortunately, Steve arrived early on Saturday and regularized everything, and left us imagining how bad it would have been if hadn't been working late and the water left to spew into the ceiling all night. Thank you!
Last weekend we did a wedding with a difference.
A fun day and a picture perfect country wedding. Days like this are why we love what we do!
It’s late spring and North Carolina is a’bloomin with flowers! Not only in yards, fields and roadsides, but the local flower farms are getting into gear, too.
Here's some motherly trivia in honor of Mother's Day - May 9th. If you love Mom, send her some flowers to tell her so.
The highest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69, to Mrs. Feodor Vassilyev (1707-1782) of Shuya, Russia. Between 1725 and 1765, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets.
August is the most popular month in which to have a baby and
Tuesday The most popular day of the week in which to have a baby
Oldest recorded new mother: 70 years old! On November 28, 2008, 70-year old Rajo Devi of India gave birth to her first child, a baby girl, after IVF treatments.
"I look on child-rearing not only as a work of love and duty, but as a profession that is fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world, and one that demands the best that I can bring it." - Rose Kennedy
On Tuesday, we had a special day when 15 members of the local Arc of NC came to visit us to explore the world of a florist. The Arc are a state and national organization that supports, promotes and defends people with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
Yesterday was Jackie Robinson Day, commemorating the 61st anniversary of the day that he became the first black man to break the color barrier in major league baseball. This achievement was hard-won as he endured threats, hatred and fear from fans and fellow players alike before he eventually won the trust and admiration of so many and turned his detractors into admirers.
