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Landscape Design Archives - Slow Flowers Podcast with Debra Prinzing
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- Landscape Design Archives - Slow Flowers Podcast with Debra Prinzing
Episode 793: Felicia Reid of Good Friend Ecological Gardens left behind her career as a New York lawyer to design gardens and arrange flowers – changing her life and others in the process
After over a decade as an attorney, Felicia Reid became a garden developer and designer. Her approach to gardens and gardening is about being a ‘good friend’—…
- Landscape Design Archives - Slow Flowers Podcast with Debra Prinzing
Episode 792: Floral Foraging from your backyard with landscape designer and horticulturist Susan Ryan of Gardendigs
In late August, I joined other members of the Northwest Horticultural Society for a special event in Susan Ryan’s Tacoma residential garden. We learned her…
Landscape Design Archives - Slow Flowers Podcast with Debra PrinzingEpisode 766: Adding a flower farm and floral shop to a retail nursery center with Delisa Hiel of Gardenwerks in Helena, Montana
Back in 2018, we included Retail Garden Centers Adding Floral Design Services as one of our trends to watch in the annual Slow Flowers Floral Insights and…
- Landscape Design Archives - Slow Flowers Podcast with Debra Prinzing
Episode 738: Meet Melissa Olson of Penflora Designs, a Bay Area floral studio and lifestyle shop reflecting her love of nature, the garden, and local blooms
At Penflora, sustainable floristry meets thoughtful design. Founder Melissa Olson recently hosted me for a book-signing event at her Bay Area shop where we…
- Landscape Design Archives - Slow Flowers Podcast with Debra Prinzing
Episode 737: Herbs for floral design (and the garden) with Stefani Bittner of Homestead Design Collective and Rose Loveall of Morningsun Herb Farm
Compared to the way today’s guests view the role of herb plants for the landscape, for culinary and medicinal purposes, and especially for floral design, I…
- Landscape Design Archives - Slow Flowers Podcast with Debra Prinzing
Episode 728: Building a Successful Floral Tourism Destination, with Lori and Jim Bochner of Bochner Farms in Indianola, Iowa
The Bochner family lived in the Des Moines, Iowa, suburbs for many years, in a house surrounded by a beautiful flower garden. As gardeners with other careers…
- Landscape Design Archives - Slow Flowers Podcast with Debra Prinzing
Episode 721: Designer-Grower Annika McIntosh of Hazel Designs and a bonus tour of Bellingham’s Field to Floral Market
A few weeks ago, I journeyed to Bellingham, a beautiful college town located close to the Washington-British Columbia border, where Annika McIntosh of Hazel…
- Landscape Design Archives - Slow Flowers Podcast with Debra Prinzing
Episode 698: Slow Flowers Floral Insights and Industry Forecast for 2025
This year, in recognition of Slow Flowers’ annual focus on changing cultural and creative shifts in the floral industry, our Forecast hones in on seven…
- Landscape Design Archives - Slow Flowers Podcast with Debra Prinzing
Episode 693 – The Wonderful World of Willows with Alana Karam of Willamette Willows
It’s Willow Week here at the Slow Flowers Podcast and Alana Karam of Willamette Willows is my guest. Learn about the three distinct categories of willow plants…
- Landscape Design Archives - Slow Flowers Podcast with Debra Prinzing
Episode 660: Flower Farming in Los Angeles: Meet a trio of growers behind an upcoming flower farm tour as they discuss the unique character of urban flower farming in Southern California
Meet three of the flower farmers behind the bountiful LA Flower Farm Tour, as eight woman-owned urban flower farms come together to open their gates to the…
- Landscape Design Archives - Slow Flowers Podcast with Debra Prinzing
Episode 659: Designer Leslie Bennett, co-author of Garden Wonderland and founder of Pine House Edible Gardens and Black Sanctuary Gardens
Leslie Bennett believes that gardens are for all. In Garden Wonderland, this celebrated landscape designer treats us to an accessible garden-making approach to…
- Landscape Design Archives - Slow Flowers Podcast with Debra Prinzing
Episode 654: Native Flora for farmers and florists with Holly Lukasiewicz of District 2 Floral Studio; Deborah Majerus of Iron Butterfly Farm and Lodging; and Kate Watters of Wild Heart Farm
More Slow Flowers members are exploring native plants as potential floral design elements – both on their farms and in their studios. In fact, in our recent…