Sourcing Local Flowers
I love flowers. I love romantic blooms with delicate petals, arching stems and graceful lines. I love robust, sturdy stems and large flower heads. During the spring, summer and fall months, I do my best to take advantage of all of the incredible locally grown flowers Maine has to offer. This year, I have relied heavily on the Maine Flower Collective, which is a marketplace for wholesale flowers across the state of Maine. It is a wonderful resource and has allowed me to discover some new farms beyond the midcoast and southern part of the state. 
All Maine grown except for the Viburnum. Ranunculus from Carolyn Snell, Poppies and cream Double Tulips from Lazy Acres Farm and orange Double Tulips from Ferris Farm.
Local Farms I’ve purchased from this season:
Maine Flower Collective: Carolyn Snell, BuxtonFerris Farm, BuxtonBlue Flag Farm, BuxtonBumbleroot Organic Farm, WindhamFox Farm Flowers, North BerwickBroadturn Farm, ScarboroughPaint Box Flower Farm, OrringtonLazy Acres Farm, FarmingdaleEthel’s, FalmouthBlack Dog Blooms, SangervilleBlossom Hill Farm, LebanonChase’s Daily, BelfastNew Beat Farm, KnoxMare Brook Farm, BrunswickEastern River Farm, PittstonLakehurst Farm, Manchester
Other farms not part of the Collective:On The Mountain Farm, WarrenGrounded Seed Flower Farm, WiscassetFalmouthtown Flower Co., FalmouthMeadow Ridge Perennials, HebronSuncatcher Flower Farm, BrunswickThe Forage (a flower collective of NH, MA and VT farms)
One of my favorite arrangements from May- featuring Fritillaria meleagris from Fox Farm Flowers, Tulips ‘Shirley Double’ from Lazy Acres Farm and Hellebores from Ethel’s.
All Maine grown. David Austin Garden Roses from Lazy Acres Farm, peach Stock from Carolyn Snell, Cosmos ‘Double Dutch’ from Bumbleroot Organic Farm, Campanula from Meadow Ridge Perennials and Orlaya and Leucothoe from my own cutting garden.
Foxglove ‘Dalmation Peach’ and double Tulips ‘La Belle Epoch’ grown by Lazy Acres Farm and Ninebark branches grown by Carolyn Snell.
Foxglove grown by Lazy Acres Farm, Viburnum from Carolyn Snell and Delphinium grown by Bumbleroot Organic Farm.
All Maine grown except for the Ranunculus. Ammi ‘Green Mist’ grown by On The Mountain Farm, lime green Lisianthus grown by Carolyn Snell and Ninebark and Cotinus from my cutting garden.
Agastache from Chase’s Daily, ‘Dart’s Gold’ Ninebark, Marigold, Zinnias ‘Oklahoma’ carmine from On The Mountain Farm, Hydrangea ‘Limelight’, Foxglove, Dahlias ‘Cornel Bronze’ Zinnias, Rudbeckia ‘Irish Eyes’, Cosmos ‘Double Click Rose Bon Bon’ and Zinnias ‘Oklahoma’ yellow all from The Forage.