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The Value of a Professional Wedding Team: Why You Need a Planner, Photographer, Florist & More
It’s no secret that planning a wedding involves a lot of steps, from choosing vendors, creating a menu, arranging the seating chart, and sending out the invitations — plus countless other tasks!
We believe the best way to manage all of this is with a team of professionals helping you along the way. Not only will they help you to create the wedding of your dreams, you will save loads of time, stress, and even money, when you work with the pros.
Let’s go over a few people you’ll want to have on your wedding team and the value they’ll bring.
Designing Your Dream Wedding with Eco-Friendly Flowers
Designing a wedding with sustainable flowers not only adds natural beauty to your special day but also contributes to a healthier planet. Let's explore how you can create a memorable and environmentally friendly wedding with eco-conscious floral choices.
Maximizing Small Spaces with Flower Patches and Container Gardens
In this blog post, we'll explore how you can maximize small spaces with flower patches and container gardens, bringing joy and beauty to your surroundings.
Cultivating Green Dreams: An Atomic Approach to Eco-Friendly Gardening in 2024
As we step into a new year, we’re inspired by James Clear and his incredible book Atomic Habits, and want to apply his teachings to setting garden goals.
Weddings: How to Get More Value Out of Your Floral Budget
It’s no surprise that flowers are a big part of any wedding. Not only do they help define the entire vibe of the event, they help to transform the venue into a magical space.
The Rewards of a Cutting Garden
It’s no secret that we love cutting gardens. Not only are they a foundation of our business, we also teach about how to start your own.
Community Building Through Gardening
Another benefit of gardening we enjoy is the community building. Throughout this past year, we’ve enjoyed interacting with and helping our community with our flowers. Let’s take a look back!
3 Ways to Make Your Landscape More “Green”
If you’re anything like us here at Sweet Earth Co., you want your home and landscape to be as “green” as possible. Here are 3 ways to make your landscape more green.
Your Table is the Venue: How to Create the Perfect Tablescape
With the fall and winter holidays approaching, we want to share a few tips on creating the perfect tablescape for your event.
4 Dahlia Types You Can Grow & Design With
It goes without saying that we love dahlias here at Sweet Earth Co. There are endless varieties of dahlias, available in a multitude of styles, sizes, and colors.
Preserve Your Floral Bounty: How & Why
Here at Sweet Earth Co., our cutting gardens are full of beautiful blooms from spring through late fall that we use for fresh floral arrangements and installations.
But we also plant plenty so that we have some to dry. We harvest some blooms so that we can preserve them and use them for dried bouquets and crafting.
Growing Creativity: Exploring Multiple Passions as a Farmer Florist
There are many different projects and types of art that you can make as a gardener and farmer florist. You can use your flowers in your art and designs, or you can simply use them as inspiration. In this post I’m sharing some of my favorite ways to get creative — and inspire further creativity — with the flowers you grow.
Have You Been Wanting a Meadow? (A Peek Behind the Scenes at a Client Project)
There’s something magical about a meadow. Just gazing upon a meadow can make you feel connected to nature, along with helping you let go of stress and inspiring creativity.
American Flowers Week: Revisiting Our Wearable Bluebird
Starting this week, we will be celebrating American Flowers Week from the Slow Flowers Society. Running through July 4th, this week is all about advocacy and awareness of the benefits and importance of domestic, locally-grown flowers.
Designing with Flowers: Spiral Bouquets
The spiral bouquet is a favorite of ours here at Sweet Earth Co. Not only are they visually stunning, they’re great for crafting a bouquet with confidence, as they are efficient to make and the stems hold up well.
Designing with Flowers: Boutonnières
It’s no secret that we love to design with flowers at Sweet Earth Co. Today the focus is on boutonnières.
The 3 Essential Elements of Container Garden Design
When it comes to designing your container garden, there are 3 essential elements you’ll want to have in mind: Thrillers, fillers, and spillers. Let’s dive into what each one means in more detail.
Perennial Landscape Plants We Love for Cut Flower Arrangements
Are you growing perennials in your cutting garden? Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or just starting this year, we want to share a few of our favorite perennial landscape plants we love to use in our flower arrangements.
5 Ways Eco-Conscious Florists are Changing the Game
While often considered natural and earth-friendly, the sale of flowers and the art of floristry in current commercial floristry practices are no better for the environment than most large manufacturing operations. Some of the reasons for this include: the huge carbon footprint created by large-scale farms, use of pesticides, the manufacture of single-use floral mechanics, and transportation needed to bring regionally out-of-season flowers to consumers.
Romantic Garden Inspired Summer Wedding in Westchester for Emily & Joe
The theme for Emily & Joe’s early July Wedding was “Let the Garden In”. The floral design was romantic and natural with an organic and garden-inspired style.