Flower Scout

Our BACK TO SCHOOL Flower Club starts in a week and a half — picture dahlias, dahlias, dahlias. Purchase your 6-week subscription at the link in bio.

This week at Flower Scout! We’ve got a SOAP WORKSHOP with .botanicalsoap on Thursday evening, an OPEN STUDIO on Friday, and the incredible MERCADO on Saturday. Sign up for soap at the link in the bio, and see you soon?

I am a huge fan of Allie & Ben (and whatever is happening with this goat and this bridesmaid bouquet). This early June wedding — how was it only last month — was an ode to the vibrancy of Early Summer and this peony-meets-poppy moment, with the most perfect photos by

EXTRA DOSE bouquets: the season’s best weekly offering, which you can order by Thursday at noon and pick up on Friday (we’ll deliver if you order two). Get some health unto your eyeballs with these beauties. Link in bio 🌼🌸🌿🫛🍄

Grateful for our new growing space and for this sweet coverage in the Albany Business Review!

Troy floral business adds 1 acre downtown, opening growth opportunity

You can pick up our Flower Club at Sand Lake Market this year, in addition to four other wonderful locations

No I am not a graphic designer, can you tell? But these will be WONDERFUL workshops so please sign up at the link in the bio and join us 🐌

Our infamous “chic roadside ditch” aesthetic, as it manifested this past September at Hayfield Catskills for Lindsay and Tyler, world’s cutest parents-to-be. Planning by the wonderful

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I’m so happy to be in community with — we’re here til 5 today with a make-your-own-bouquet situation, plus goods from friends .botanicalsoap, , and .nostalgia 🍒💋🍓❤️🐞. Come hang, drink some kombucha, be cozy and see all our colors with your real eyes.

I’m telling you: the feeling you get from a grocery store bouquet compares to the feeling of these flowers like a goldfish compares to a blue whale

(edited from “like a goldfish [cheesy cracker] compares to a triple crème [specifically St Stephen can I get an amen, I’m hungry])”

Which is a better metaphor, you tell me

Our Valentine options are live and ready-to-order, including 4 sizes of florals, a drawing workshop, and any of the sweet little goods in the webshop it’s all a nice gift but get it before 2/12 ❤️

Ali & Arjun had a two-day celebration with a bright, warm palette on day one for their Haldi ceremony and a muted, earthy palette on day two. We repurposed the first arrangements, added bountiful bowls of florals, re-did the arbor, strung garland on the baraat (golf cart) and mixed it all together through rain and shine — and it was unspeakably gorgeous, because just look at these people, they’re incredible. Big big thanks to Arjun & Ali, and all these incredible vendors:

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The beautiful, thoughtful, wild wedding of Carla & Ivan in late October. Our gardens kept holding on and spitting out perfect zinnias, grasses, roses and more for this antique elegant and cozy shindig. Just look at Carla’s boots!

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I grow flowers and fold them into each other, into crowns and bundles and bowls and arbors, hang them from walls, pin them on suits. Years of learning how to grow, when to cut, what temperature to keep them, and always surprised by new feelings they give me: color texture shape. We did 25 big weddings this year and 30 small ones, each a sliver of a season.

To be a part of a celebration, every week, all the living season — to slice the season and with earned practice serve up its best beauty — it helps me love the world, express the love I have for this horrible, beautiful, changing world — that transforms my bare brown gnarled gardens into transparent sculptures of light.

This hardly-bearable world, where so many things are crumbling just as my child asks about them, wanting me to define things just as they become meaningless, encountering the concept of war and asking — why is it not here and when might it be? And still the plants know nothing, blooming in the wrong season still reaching out into the terrible world with all innocence and perseverance.

I suppose in this place I should say Hire Me, Please, and please do; I’ve built a little life I’d like to keep. But I can’t use the same portal to encounter the news of the dying world and beg it for income with the same eyes, same breath. I hope I get to keep growing flowers, and it’s a hope I extend to all persons everywhere. Ceasefire now.

My light

Happy Solstice 🕊️ May a peaceful new world find a way to be born from this broken one. Hope is a muscle. Ceasefire now. (Thank you Jess and Stella for saving this angel apple and putting it on the counter at

One more wedding before we dive into the biggest flower holiday of the year—October 2021 at Stonover Farm with Erin & Jason: deep reds and velvet textures and fuzz and fizz and pop.

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These beauties! in this place! An incredible party with a sweet sensibility, tons of trust, and big big big love.
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On this nearly 100-degree May day, our garden bees swarmed in the very early morning. Beekeeper and I, both of us with big events that afternoon, did our best to capture the swarm and give our bees another home. I think some of that wild airy energetic excitement made its way into Nicole’s bouquet, and - pardon this metaphor - she and Kwame were like the calm sweet skillful beekeepers of this perfect wild wedding.
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We’re generally anti-perfection at Flower Scout, but rules are meant to be broken sometimes.

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I love gardening and I love arranging and I really, truly love the stylish and smart clients who gifted me the means to work SO HARD in 2022, but here’s the real deal.

Come visit us at the studio, 108 Jefferson Street in Troy! Also check the website for Christmas flower arrangement preorders, for pickup and delivery too 🎄

We’re hosting a thing! December 4th, upstairs from the studio, with a handful of incredible makerpeople and treats and music and festive feelings. Please come, give us a hug, sip a warm drink, and support some folks with skills. And share this post! xoC

Thanksgiving Flowers! Entirely locally grown and foraged, which won’t be possible in a month from now. Order them for yourself, or to send to some people you love. Link in bio

Recently described my aesthetic as “dirty dropcloth” and honestly leaning into it after that burst of self-knowledge

It’s actually finally wreath time. Thank you to the early birds who’ve been asking but respected my need to fully decompress from wedding season. We’re here! Link in bio

Available now in a limited quantity: Narcissus collection! Grab a bag of 25 of my favorite bulbs (8 varieties) for planting now and soonish, and throw in the world’s best gardening tool too. Click the link in my bio to get there 🌼🌼🌼 Spring before we know it (not really but hey)

Claiming my own bicep as my own perfect thirst trap. Perfect garden pics by

I just made a delivery to new friend, lover of gardens, and influential scholar and activist Barbara Smith, founder of the Combahee River Collective. Barbara is looking for an assistant to help with correspondence and organizing her extensive archive. If this is your course of study/kind of work, DM me and I’ll put you in touch. I am so honored to have met and spent time with her, and would love to help her find someone great.