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I'm so happy to share today's conversation and design demonstration with you. My guest is Jennifer Driscoll, owner of Oakland-based Redwood Wild Florals.
I met Jennifer last summer at the 2021 Slow Flowers Summit, held at Filoli, not far from her Bay Area backyard. You know how you start following someone you've met on social media and then want to learn more about their story and their creativity? That's what's happened with us. I invited Jennifer to join me to share about her floral journey and give us a floral design treat.
Her tagline for Redwood Wild Florals is: "Seasonal, Handpicked, & Foraged Garden-Style Florals."
While a self-described gardener who loves to share her flower bounty and find beauty in community, Jennifer's artistic super power is her background in interior design.
Drawing from her design training, and combined with her passion for gardening, Jennifer arranges an array of organically grown flowers, straight from the garden, to create lush, artful, and refined florals.
Enjoy this lovely peek into Jennifer's world.
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See Jennifer's interior design style at Studio Driscoll
I loved seeing all of the cutting garden ingredients that Jennifer grows and includes in her bouquets and arrangements. Take inspiration from her story and perhaps you'll borrow some of the ways Jennifer blends two creative pursuits into her lifestyle!
This week's Slow Flowers' News
Xenia D'Ambrosi and TJ McGrath
Coming up this Friday, May 13th, you're invited to join the Slow Flowers Member (virtual) Meet-Up for the month. It's our Slow Flowers Summit Design Preview with Xenia D'Ambrosi and TJ McGrath, two of our Slow Flowers Summit featured floral designers who will join me for an inspiring conversation about seasonal growing, sourcing and design!
Xenia and TJ are part of our inspiring Day One speaker lineup (June 26th) and they will both present a design demonstration using all locally-grown botanicals at the Slow Flowers Summit.
At the Meet-Up you'll have a chance to learn more about their floral enterprises and how they stay true to their missions. Their missions are based on seasonality, sustainability, and connecting clients, customers, and their communities with the beauty and meaning in their flowers. I hope you'll join this enriching gathering!
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Thank you to our Sponsors!
This show is brought to you by Slowflowers.com, the free, online directory to more than 880 florists, shops, and studios who design with local, seasonal and sustainable flowers and to the farms that grow those blooms. It’s the conscious choice for buying and sending flowers.
Thank you to our lead sponsor, returning for 2022, Farmgirl Flowers. Farmgirl Flowers delivers iconic burlap-wrapped bouquets and lush, abundant arrangements to customers across the U.S., supporting U.S. flower farms by purchasing more than $10 million dollars of U.S.-grown fresh and seasonal flowers and foliage annually. Discover more at farmgirlflowers.com.
Thank you to Johnny's Selected Seeds, an employee-owned company that provides our industry the best flower, herb and vegetable seeds -- supplied to farms large and small and even backyard cutting gardens like mine. Find the full catalog of flower seeds and bulbs at johnnysseeds.com.
Thank you to Mayesh Wholesale Florist. Family-owned since 1978, Mayesh is the premier wedding and event supplier in the U.S. and we're thrilled to partner with Mayesh to promote local and domestic flowers, which they source from farms large and small around the U.S. Learn more at mayesh.com.
Thank you to The Gardener's Workshop, which offers a full curriculum of online education for flower farmers and farmer-florists. Online education is more important this year than ever, and you'll want to check out the course offerings at thegarden...