Announcing FLOWERSTOCK 2020

flower stock 2020 floral design instructors

FLOWERSTOCK 2020 — OCTOBER 16, 2020 Flowerstock originated out of Holly Heider Chapple’s desire to connect with flower friends in a less formal setting and inspire creativity through a relaxed approach to floral design. For the past 4 years Holly has hosted Flowerstock at Hope Flower Farm in her hometown of Leesburg, Virginia. However, with […]

Flower Chat with Holly Chapple

Ian Prosser Holly Chapple and Joost Bongaerts

This past January while in Santa Barbara, California for the annual Florabundance Inspirational Design Days I caught up with Holly Chapple for a ‘flower chat’. [photograph shown here was Holly, Joost, Ian, and I are Design Days 2013] Holly and I first ‘met’ on twitter many, many years ago – probably around 2009. Since then […]

Floral DeliverEase, for Floral Deliveries

Flirty Fleurs Florist Packing System Deliverease

While designing flowers can be so fun and enjoyable, moving the flowers to their destination can be so stressful! I know I am always looking for a better way to deliver flowers safely to an event venue. DeliverEase offers a great solution to the delivery of flowers. For a recent wedding I used the Deliver […]

Flirty Fleurs + Longfield Gardens Collections

longfield gardens and flirty fleurs bulb collections

Thrilled to share our Flirty Fleurs + Longfield Gardens Collections are available for ordering over on the Longfield Gardens Website! Every spring I watch with anticipation as the bulbs come into bloom, excited to see what will bloom when, what shapes and colors they will turn out to be. This past spring a beautiful variety […]

“The Year of the Pivot” with Florists’ Review Magazine

‘The Year Of The Pivot’ is published in the September issue of @florists_review magazine! For this article I interviewed Michelle of @cloud9blooms , Kelly of @thefloralsource , Caroline of @passifloragirl , Kim of @kimstarrwise on how they quickly pivoted the focuses of their floral businesses to weather the storm of the pandemic.

Pleased to have an article published in the September 2020 issue of Florists’ Review Magazine titled “The Year of the Pivot” For this article I interviewed Michelle of Cloud 9 Blooms, Kelly of The Floral Source, Caroline of Passiflora Studio, Kim of Kim Starr Wise on how they quickly pivoted the focuses of their floral […]