Flower Friends

Flower Friends

Come along as Sarah from Grow Girl Seattle builds a small flower business and chats with inspiring guests about growing and designing flowers.

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May 28, 2023 71 mins

On today's episode, Liz Schreiner-Schmidt, President of Schreiner's Gardens in Salem, Oregon, stops by to discuss bearded iris! Iris are in all their glory at their display garden right now, which is open through May 31st. If you don't make it this year, put it on your calendar for next year!

Liz answers all my questions about how to grow bearded iris - what conditions they like, how your iris will come pack...

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Sarah’s in London in garden & flower heaven, and recorded a quick lowdown of her visit so far - Kensington Gardens,  Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and the RHS Chelsea Flower Show! 

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Today we get to talk with Miranda from Wildrye Farm about the heirloom chrysanthemums she grows and sells plugs of, and about her amazing farm in Bellingham, Washington where she specializes in sustainable, exceptional quality cut flowers and foliage!

I ask Miranda about her career in farming, how she evolved from growing veggies into cut flowers, where and how she sells those cut flowers, the layout of her farm spaces (w...

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March 26, 2023 89 mins

Season 4 is here, and we're kicking it off with a bang - Jason Delaney from PHS Daffodils stops by to chat about everything daffodils! Jason specializes in classic, historic, and novel varieties for garden & exhibition. 

I got to ask Jason about his background in flower growing - which started at a very young age in rural Illinois, and continued on into a long career with the Missouri Botanical Garden where he ove...

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The seed starting episode is in! On this episode, I share how I start seeds here at grow Girl Seattle, both for indoor and outdoor sowing. I go through my timing, what my setup is like, cover the tools and supplies I use, how I get my seeds started, and share some tips and tricks I’ve picked up along the way.

Today you'll also get some updates on Season 4, which is coming out shortly, and on our new Flower Friends Ho...

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Let's continue our convo on signature flowers and seed starting, Flower Friends! In today's episode I take you through my personal brainstorm of my favorite flowers and foliage, and how I used the brainstorm list to narrow down what I'll be growing this year. I call this my "signature ingredients exercise". 

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This week is all about signature flowers and seed starting! In this two part series, I’ll walk you through an exercise I decided to do before starting seeds this year, and give some updates on where I’m at with seed sowing.

Part I covers what I’m calling my “signature ingredients exercise”, which is a brainstorm and narrowing process to get your seed-sowing list down to your favorite flowers and foliage. In this episode, ...

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January 16, 2023 44 mins

Come along on a walk through my January garden. When the rain let up and I saw some sun shining this morning, I thought it would be the perfect time to take stock of what's where in the garden, what space I have open, what projects I want to work on, and I thought you might like to join. Welcome to my garden!

Subscribe to the Flower Friends pod wherever you get your podcasts, and follow along on Instagram at @flowerfr...

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December 27, 2022 51 mins

To kick off season 3, I share six mindset practices I've been working on to lay the foundation for the new year and help reduce Instagram stress and comparison: 

  1. Set priorities to act with confidence and intention
  2. Create a "pat yourself on the back list"
  3. Write down projects and ideas that make you excited
  4. For the things you don't love doing but need to, brainstorm ways to make them more fun
  5. Make a one-page year-a...
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September 2, 2022 75 mins

Yasmine Mei from Yasmine Floral Design stops by the pod for our Season 2 finale, bringing all of her floral magic with her. Yasmine's designs are whimsical, romantic, and edgy, and we talk about the flowers and ingredients she celebrates in her work (including mushrooms!), using nature as inspiration, and a new and fun way she's been exploring the natural world. We also chat about how she maintains her voice and how she h...

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August 21, 2022 62 mins

Have you ever gotten a seed packet and wondered how those seeds made it to you? Or what an organic seed really is? Or what 'heirloom' means? Well today we get to learn all about seeds with THE Renee from Renee's Garden today. Her company offers flower, veggie, and herb seeds specifically for home gardeners, with a huge host of cool offerings that they test in their trial gardens in California and Vermont.

I...

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August 15, 2022 44 mins

This week we're talking to Michelle Nathan from Little Free Flowery, a flower stand where Michelle shares her homegrown flowers with her neighbors and community. It's such a big hit! Michelle describes why and how she started the stand, how she sets it up, what it means to her, and about the connections she's made. Her idea has inspired other stands to open in her neighborhood and beyond, and I was so excited to hear...

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It was such a pleasure to speak with floral designer and podcaster Rebecca Noble from LLB and Dish the Dirt podcast. Rebecca is located in Australia and designs with seasonal flowers grown by farmers in her area, who she has built wonderful relationships with, and in 2020 she started her podcast to share their stories and knowledge and connect florists with farmers.

We talk about how she got into floral design, the strugg...

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Brain-like cactus? A cactus that only blooms for one night? Slime mold? Hair ice!? Zebra succulents? How cool are these plants!?? Cactus CEO Meg Meyer from Propagate Positivity fills us in on all of the amazing plants in their collection and that they encounter in the wild!

We first chat about Meg's habitat restoration work where they spend a lot of time outdoors removing invasive species and replacing them with nativ...

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On this episode, we check back in with Margaret Ullman-Hess from Ballard Urban Flowers, Kristin Ryzebol from Neighborhood Flower Co., and Jess Wesley from Curly Girl Gardens, the OG flower friends who helped inspire this podcast! We talked about how spring and summer are going so far, the rainy season and some unexpected outcomes from that (longer seasons for some plants, and delayed seasons for others), highlights and lowlights of...

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July 18, 2022 64 mins

Today we're talking dahlias with LeeAnn Huber from Coseytown Flowers! LeeAnn discusses her background in agriculture, how she got interested in dahlias, what her growing space is like, and then introduces us to some of her Coseytown dahlia varieties - and even gives a preview of a few breeding program beauties that might be on the horizon!

LeeAnn's focus with Coseytown Flowers is to develop varieties with a stro...

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July 10, 2022 69 mins

Today we are joined by Arielle Zamora from Small Yard Flowers to chat about her farm, flowers, and artful floral design. We talk about her growing spaces, what she grows there, her event and design work, the unmatched beauty of fresh local flowers, and then dive into roses. Arielle shares some of her favorite rose varieties to grow, tips on supporting them, and how to combat disease. She also offers tips on how to let fresh-from-th...

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July 7, 2022 30 mins

In this bonus episode, Sarah walks through her Athamma's (mother-in-law's) beautiful flower and vegetable garden. Usha Nayani grows several varieties of vegetables, herbs, and flowers at her home in Yorktown, Virginia. It was such a special visit, listen in to hear more about Usha's glow-in-the-dark feature, her painted tiles, recycled bottle pots, sunflowers, jasmine, special Indian vegetables, and more. 

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It's the start of season 2, and our first ever Flower Friends Field Trip to the Farmhouse Flower Farm in Stanwood, Washington! The intrepid Marryn Mathis walks us through her sweet pea tunnels, field grown sweet pea rows, her bearded iris and perennial beds, and dahlia fields, and we get to meet her pups, see her ponds, woods, and gorgeous 10-acre property, and then sit down in her farmstand to answer some listener questions. ...

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June 5, 2022 64 mins

In the Season 1 finale of Flower Friends, Sarah sits down with Alyssa Lytle, whose floral design business Color Theory Design Co. and educational platform Flowering Minds have been hugely inspirational (14:35). Sarah asks how Alyssa got her start in the flower world, how she decided to start her own business, and what it was like to move that business to a new city (twice). This lived experience is pivotal to what Alyssa teaches on...

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