Comments on: The Farmer & the {Florist} Interview: Re-connecting with Ariella Chezar https://www.floretflowers.com/ariella-chezar/ Mon, 01 May 2023 22:24:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Hannah Moffet https://www.floretflowers.com/ariella-chezar/#comment-383211 Fri, 22 Feb 2019 20:42:56 +0000 http://www.floretflowers.com/?p=57040#comment-383211 What a lovely interview, I can’t wait to read Ariella’s newest book. My favourite kind of arrangement is one made from locally grown and seasonal flowers! In particular, I love arrangements with cafe o lait dahlias, red hibiscus and celosia, so pretty!!

]]> By: Heather Serry https://www.floretflowers.com/ariella-chezar/#comment-383206 Fri, 22 Feb 2019 19:56:53 +0000 http://www.floretflowers.com/?p=57040#comment-383206 So fun learning about different growers and flower artists around us! My Mother-In-Law gives me a bunch of giant, beautiful tree lilies every year when they bloom and I so look forward to it. They make the house smell so good and are so pretty all on their own!

]]> By: Cheryl Carlson https://www.floretflowers.com/ariella-chezar/#comment-383202 Fri, 22 Feb 2019 04:30:46 +0000 http://www.floretflowers.com/?p=57040#comment-383202 Thank you for sharing! Such a lovely interview and collection of photos! ahh !! – to die for! We are moving this year and it looks like I may finally have a little extra space to finally dedicate time (and space) to growing my own flowers, I cannot wait. I love any arrangement made from what can be found at a local market or from a friends garden. So simple but somehow extra thoughtful!
– Cheryl

]]> By: Jewel https://www.floretflowers.com/ariella-chezar/#comment-383201 Fri, 22 Feb 2019 04:25:12 +0000 http://www.floretflowers.com/?p=57040#comment-383201 Last year was my first garden and I only had a few things planted so my favorite thing to give was zinnias, celosia and globe amaranth!

]]> By: Val Taylor https://www.floretflowers.com/ariella-chezar/#comment-383200 Fri, 22 Feb 2019 00:57:42 +0000 http://www.floretflowers.com/?p=57040#comment-383200 Erin,
I so enjoy your website and ideas. I’m looking forward to Ariella’s new book. I just gave a presentation last night on cut flower gardens, to grow arrange and more. I highly recommended your book as the most comprehensive on the subject.

One of my favorite flowers is the Angelique Tulip. Bernadette Roozen recommended them to me in 1989 to have at my wedding. I grew up in Mt. Vernon and have fond memories of working for the Roozen family. I miss the great Skagit Valley soil. I plan to have a huge arrangement in May to celebrate my 30th anniversary!

]]> By: Marie Kaylor https://www.floretflowers.com/ariella-chezar/#comment-383197 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:57:17 +0000 http://www.floretflowers.com/?p=57040#comment-383197 What fabulous writing Erin. So great to bear witness to two women loving there craft and sharing it with others through your interview.This year I’m finally moving forward with my dream of having a cut flower business here in Colorado. I only discovered you a month ago and I feel it Fortuitous .

]]> By: Brandie Orchard https://www.floretflowers.com/ariella-chezar/#comment-383194 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 19:13:36 +0000 http://www.floretflowers.com/?p=57040#comment-383194 Wow! Thanks for sharing this interview! I completely connect with Ariella’s philosophy of finding what is seasonal and local versus imported flowers. This is my inspiration (along with Floret’s Workshop 2018!) to grow thousands of Peonies, Specialty Tulips, Raspberries and Perennials in the mountains of Wyoming. Jackson Hole, WY is a wedding destination in our very short summer months and we really should be using as many locally grown flowers as we can! I, too, am working on creating a place where flower enthusiasts can come to relax, connect & learn in nature.
My favorite flower arrangement to give is whatever is growing in my garden at the time. Last year, my favorite arrangement given was a mixture of sweet peas, raspberry greens with some ripe raspberries still attached (which were promptly eaten by the kids! – who could not resist), a beautiful dahlia and some lilies.

]]> By: Karla Monti https://www.floretflowers.com/ariella-chezar/#comment-383189 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:20:05 +0000 http://www.floretflowers.com/?p=57040#comment-383189 Local flowers, blooms from my garden, and incredible roadside finds are my favorite staples in my arrangements. Thanks to both of you passionate flower ladies it is the new vogue! Looking forward to Arielle’s new book to brighten my snowy and gray Chicago days. Favorite flowers? Got to be peonies and violas!!

]]> By: Paula https://www.floretflowers.com/ariella-chezar/#comment-383186 Wed, 20 Feb 2019 22:38:52 +0000 http://www.floretflowers.com/?p=57040#comment-383186 Thank you Erin so much sharing your interview with Ariella. I really enjoyed reading all about it! I am just starting off my very first season in Cut Flower farming and I’m so looking forward to see what the Lord has in store this season for us! I’m looking forward to digging in the dirt with my three little princesses ages 4, 3 and newborn! I want them to enjoy it as much as me and that I wouldn’t get so worried about stepped on plants/flowers and dumped over buckets or seeds but that I would just enjoy the beauty of God’s gorgeous Creation with them!
Whether receiving or giving a bouquet I do believe I would love it filled with either ranunculus anemones or tulips and plenty of bells of Ireland!

]]> By: CAROL KRAUSE https://www.floretflowers.com/ariella-chezar/#comment-383185 Wed, 20 Feb 2019 18:08:05 +0000 http://www.floretflowers.com/?p=57040#comment-383185 It is so nice to hear such a prestigious voice in floral design look to seasonal local flora, there is something special and sweet about using what is available and waiting for something special in the coming season. To me its like waiting for our own local Northwest strawberries which to me are the best in the world, they are here for a few short weeks and we eat them till we are nearly sick. Hurrah Ariela!! And for us at Flower Farmer Girls it has to be Peonies!

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