SLOW FLOWERS with Debra Prinzing

I have some very special news to share with you – GWA | The Association for Garden Communicators — announced last week that Slowflowers.com is a SILVER MEDAL winner in the 2016 Media Awards program. This follows last year’s Silver Award for our infographic titled: “Where do your flowers come from?” We’ve poured so much […]

You hear me say this every Wednesday morning: “This is the weekly podcast about American Flowers and the people who grow and design with them. It’s all about making a conscious choice and I invite you to join the conversation and the creative community as we discuss the vital topics of saving our domestic flower […]

News and Updates: Last month I mentioned news about the Slow Flowers Creative Workshop, which I’m co-teaching with Teresa Sabankaya of the Bonny Doon Garden Co., in Santa Cruz, California. We have a schedule update – the workshop dates have moved and will begin 24 hours later than originally planned. We’ll now begin on SUNDAY […]

We’ve wrapped up American Flowers Week, which took place between June 28th and Independence Day on July 4th! Year Two of the Slow Flowers’ campaign to promote and celebrate American grown flowers exceeded all expectations. In 2015, this little social media effort got a last-minute start with just six weeks’ lead time — and it […]

This week kicks off American Flowers Week, which began yesterday on June 28th and continues through next Monday, July 4th, Independence Day! This is our second year celebrating American grown flowers in all shapes, sizes, forms, fragrances, locations and home states. Before I introduce you to today’s guest, a thoroughly American flower farmer and florist, […]

This week’s episode delivers double the inspiration as you will hear from two guests — one quite familiar to our Slow Flowers community, Ariella Chezar, and one who is an emerging leader in floral design education, Morgan Anderson. Both interviews were recorded in May and I’m combining them here for an extended episode that will […]

How do you manage all the paperwork that goes into planning, budgeting, and producing a successful wedding or special event? According to today’s guest, Santa Barbara-based designer Sarah Hinton, it took years of struggling with spread sheets and clipboards before she was inspired to develop a software program that simplifies all that paperwork into one online […]

The roots of this week’s episode began in December 2010 when I met Sarah Helmstetter and Alea Joy of Solabee Flowers & Botanicals, a Portland-based design team. I was visiting Portland’s Flower Market, in the area where Oregon-grown product is marketed, working with photographer David Perry on The 50 Mile Bouquet. At the time, we weren’t […]

American Flowers Week is only one month away, scheduled for June 28th through July 4th. Check out our dedicated web site here to read stories about members who are involved with this cool media and consumer awareness campaign. Find free downloads of graphics, a badge for your blogroll and images to use on Facebook, Twitter and […]

When I was a teenager, I dreamed of someday owning a fabric shop. For many of you, I’m guessing that dream was to own a flower shop. How many of you ad a similar dream and realized it? Being able to work around flowers — whether you grow them, design with them, or do both, […]

A few weeks ago you heard my conversation with Mike A. Mellano of Mellano & Co., a third generation flower farm in based in San Luis Rey, California. If you missed that episode, check it out here. Mike was our farmer-host of the 2nd Field to Vase Dinner held at the famed Flower Fields in […]

I’m really excited to share today’s episode with you, recorded during my two-day trip in March into a special kind of floral wonderland to meet the farmers, florists and growers of Sonoma County, north of San Francisco. It’s our third episode featuring members of the North Bay Flower Collective who invited me to spend time touring flower […]

This week we welcome a new Sponsor to the Slow Flowers Podcast — Arctic Alaska Peonies, a cooperative of 50 family farms in the heart of Alaska providing high quality, American Grown peony flowers during the months of July and August. Visit them today at arcticalaskapeonies.com. Click here to learn more about Alaska peonies and listen […]

In March I visited Urban Buds, a flower farm in the heart of St. Louis owned by Mimo Davis and Miranda Duschack. And I know the conversation we recorded for this Podcast (click to hear Episode 238) inspired many of you interested in flower farming in the heart of a city as an alternative to […]

This is the second episode featuring members of the North Bay Flower Collective who invited me to spend two days in Sonoma County last month to tour flower farms, visit design studios and learn more about the stories of their community. We recorded this segment at Full Bloom Farm, located just outside Sebastopol. There, flower […]