How to plan your wedding flowers
Planning your wedding can be overwhelming. Even when it comes to your flowers, there are so many choices to make! But here at Twiggage & Bloom, we make planning wedding flowers easy, working with your mood board and vision. Here are some things to consider when you’re wondering where to begin. Where to start when…
The Perfect Wedding Proposal
This inspiring wedding proposal photo shoot is sure to give you ideas for what’s possible when planning your proposal (or even a very small wedding) in the Fraser Valley. A romantic proposal venue This January photo shoot took place the most enchanting little spot in Abbotsford: The Greenhouse Venue. Nestled at the edge of the…
Flowers for Winter Weddings
Winter weddings have their own allure and charm. They don’t necessarily need to feel Christmassy, yet still evoke the stark contrasting elements of winter. You can feel the crisp chill in the air, glistening icicles, and sparkling white snow, countered with warm crackling fires and cosy blankets, spicy gingerbread, and soothing golden candlelight. At Twiggage…
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In a few days, it will be the shortest day of the year, and the first day of winter! As a floral designer who grows her own flowers, when I look out the window, it can seem rather bleak this time of year. But, I like to embrace each season, and we are simply forced…
How to Make a Dried Flower Wreath
Here at Twiggage & Bloom micro flower farm, we’ve been selectively drying the sweetest blooms over the summer to provide you with this simple craft project: Dried Flower Wreath Kits! We found the loveliest ribbons and curated 3 colour options that will look fab with any home or office decor. Terracotta Dried Flower Wreath Kit Champagne…
How to Make a Winter Wreath
Get in the holiday spirit! Here’s our expert tips on how to make your own winter holiday wreath. Winter Wreath Supplies: 1 x 14” wreath wire frame 1 paddle wire 5 branches of various evergreens: cedar, pine, fir, spruce, laurel, boxwood, variegated shrubs such as pieris or euonymus 5 assorted ‘twiggage’, berries, pinecones, moss, embellishments…
How to grow Dahlias
Dahlias are spectacular flowers for both the garden and arrangements, so it’s no surprise that they are a regular staple in our floral arrangments. If you have been wowed with these spectacular flowers, we’re sharing our secrets so you can learn how to grow dahlias too! Choosing dahlia varieties With over 20,000 different cultivars, it…
How to choose your floral colour palette with Twiggage & Bloom
At Twiggage & Bloom, whether you are newly engaged, planning a celebration or event, or choosing us for a commissioned piece, we’ll talk colour. But how do you go about choosing a colour palette that works? This colour or that colour? There are many variables in floral design, but certainly colour is the most compelling.…
Flower Workshops, Self Care and more…
Well, the fall has started off with snippets of summer weather – great for getting some tasks done around the yard! The to-do list never ends with farming, and unfortunately many of the tasks are very unglamorous and exhausting. Why don’t I just go to the wholesaler and buy commercial flowers like the other florists?!…
Flower Ideas for your Autumn Wedding
Embrace seasonal changes in your autumn wedding Around here there’s been a hint of fall: that crisp air, heavy morning dew on my shoes, and the first leaves falling. As children we all collected beautiful leaves and carried those treasures home, only to find out that they turned out brown and crispy in a few…
Wedding flowers made easy
Planning a wedding or event is a huge undertaking; and flowers are only one facet of the entire experience! With Twiggage & Bloom, sorting out your flowers for your event can be very simple! But let’s not confuse simple with plain or boring. Just simple, easy, no stress. Easy booking with custom floral results By now,…
Finding the Best Wedding Flowers
The current heat wave has me retreating indoors, and hitting the books to find the newest and prettiest flowers to grow for 2023. Similar to the fashion industry, as a florist and farmer, I have one foot in the present world and one in the future. As I am tending to this year’s crops, customers,…
How to wear boutonnieres and corsages
Wait – what is a boutonniere? The boutonniere is the miniature floral decoration that men wear pinned to their tuxedo to accessorize their look. Boutonnieres from Twiggage & Bloom garden and studio have been designed to complement the design style and palette of the wedding flowers, in essence a mini bouquet! Where to pin the boutonniere…
How it all began
Sustainable beginnings At Twiggage & Bloom, our ethos is sustainable floral design. This year, despite a long, cool spring; we’ve been gathering armloads of flowers. Adapting to the fluctuations of the crops, and making do with what’s at hand makes our work forever interesting! We watch with compassion, as yet another factor is affecting the…
Seasonal Summer Flowers
It’s hard to imagine that it is summer already! With this wet cool spring, we’ve noticed some of the flowers blooming later than usual here at Twiggage and Bloom, however, summer is upon us and the longest day of the year – which in this area means 16 hours, 17 minutes and 36 seconds of…