BLK FLWR MRKT

HEY FLOWER BUDS! Did you know that our Hillsdale Farmers Market feature all Black vendors?! Plan a full Sunday at the , followed by the legendary Goodman League basketball tournament at for a perfect Self Care Sunday in the Barry Farms community! 💐⛹🏾

SWIPE to see some of the that will pop up tomorrow, including:

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+ fitness workshops (featuring + more!), DJ + live entertainment

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HEY FLOWER BUDS! 💐 The .and.forth Farmers Market is tomorrow! You popping out?

We curate the Black + Forth Farmers Market so that you feel like you’re at a homecoming or family reunion. With Whole Wellness as one of our core values, we provide whole foods hyper-locally sourced from Black owned farmers AND provide fitness workshops to promote physical activity. The .and.forth business model is displayed here with the free.99 vending fee for our farmers and food vendors.

From freshly harvested melons to hand squeezed lemonade. In-season produce and handmade ice cream. Alkaline water and vegan burgers and diverse varieties of eggs. Eucalyptus Shower Bunches and fresh baked pastries. Worldly spices and MD-raised hens. We’re adding seafood and butter to our Black owned farmers market categories starting in July. Skip the grocery store on 2nd + 4th Sundays- we’ve got you covered here.

Tag someone who you’ll bring to the Farmers Market tomorrow! See you there 💐

APRIL FLORASCOPES for my Air Sign Flower Buds 🌌

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Check out your Sun ☀️, Moon 🌙, Rising 🌅, and Venus 💖

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APRIL FLORASCOPES for my Water Sign Flower Buds 🌊

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APRIL FLORASCOPES for my Fire Sign Flower Buds 🔥

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Check out your Sun ☀️, Moon 🌙, Rising 🌅, and Venus 💖

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APRIL FLORASCOPES for my Earth Sign Flower Buds 🌍

Happy birthday Ta**us and Aries 🎈

Check out your Sun ☀️, Moon 🌙, Rising 🌅, and Venus 💖

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Are you hanging your Eucalyptus Shower Bunch correctly, Flower Buds? 💐

One way to ensure that your Eucalyptus Shower Bunch lasts for at least 6 weeks (!!!), is to ensure there is no direct water running on your Bunch. You do not want to drench your Eucalyptus Shower Bunch with shower water because it will pre-maturely dry your eucalyptus petals.

We recommend to hang your Eucalyptus Shower Bunch in one of three ways:
1. Hang on the neck of your shower head, like pictured here with the Purifying shower head ✨
2. Hang on your shower curtain rod or on the frame of your shower door
3. Hang from a towel bar in your showering/bathing space

The major key 🔑 here is the STEAM from the hot shower. Steam plus our method of peeling petals in half will create a spa-at-home, allergy-alleviating experience!

Have you used our Eucalyptus Shower Bunch before? What do you think? ✨ Share with us in the comments 👇🏾

HEY FLOWER BUD! 🙋🏾‍♀️💐

Got weekend plans? Connect with us on Self Care Sundays this month ✨

4/9 Indoor Farmers Market
4/23 .and.forth Farmers Market
4/30 Smudge Stick Lab

No RSVP required for Farmers Markets
Tickets available for Smudge Stick Lab at on the link in their bio ✨

See you there 💐

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HEY FLOWER BUDS! Have you picked up the Women’s History Month edition of ? You have until next Thursday to grab yours before the next month edition rolls out!

Order yours online at , or go by your local DC stataion, or to grab a copy!

Thank you for sharing our story and highlighting my great-grandfather’s, John Pops Bryant, lineage! 🤩😊💐

HEY FLOWER BUDS! 🌸

Come out this Sunday to let your hair down, hang out and have a drink to celebrate this beautiful weather and the month of April with and !

Not only will I be hosting a live floral demo, I’ll also have Eucalyptus Shower Bunches and the Chocolate City Cherry Blossom installation is traveling! Yesterday we found a home for the installation at , and we’re elated to talk with you about renting the installation for your next installation, retail space or exhibition. We have a warehouse filled with many more and would love to work with you to show your customers that your values align with theirs and your business is 😉💐

See you tomorrow at !

HEY FLOWER BUDS! We’re on the cover of one of the only Black-owned and produced newspapers in the country, The Washington Informer, ! 💐

This is such a sweet surprise! I am so press!!!! - all pun intended! 😂🌸 And, talk about full circle. Just last month at for BLK Florist Month, we were wrapping our arrangements in our archival newspaper publications featuring Black florists. It looks like we’ll be wrapping our and in this piece of Black history featuring our flower business as well, Flower Buds! 🥰

Thank you so much (Libra Flower Bud! 🧚🏾‍♀️), , - y’all are amazing!

This edition highlights the work of some tenacious sisters in business, we’re super proud.

Flower Buds, grab your copy of this month’s today!

Y’all thought BLK Florist Month was over? Nah… we’re just getting started! 🚉💐✈️

Last month we highlighted two Black women florists in my hometown, Washington DC ( + ). I have dedicated my life to telling the stories of Afro women throughout the world and their relationship to flowers. I have something special for my Flower Buds dropping tomorrow about a likkle Jamaican style farm called .farm, owned by Mrs. Barbara McKenzie in Davie, FL, right outside of Miami. 🇯🇲👩🏾‍🌾

While the BLK Florist Month Pop Up Shop is closed at , I am really excited for what’s to come and exploring the world of flowers through the Afro lens. Thank you Flower Buds for inspiring me each and every day, and I am elated to share this anthrolopological journey with you all! 💐

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MARCH FLORASCOPE: Pt. 2 - Leo to Pisces

We all a little envious of how the Leo is shiningggg this month! Werk, Lion! And Libra… Flower Bud, that laugh now-cry later message had me SHOOKETH. Welp…

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When ether’s stars and earth’s blooms align, the Florascope.

Channeled through florist and owner of Kehmari, check out your sun-moon-rising and subscribe to our newsletter to get your monthly fix (link in our bio!) 🪄💐✨

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A Love Haiku to my boo , owner of , as we close out our final day of the BLK Florist Month Pop Up Shop:

“Our sweet ancestors -
Walk atop Oceans today
to dance and pass blooms”

Thank you so much for sharing your space and your team with me! We literally got this project cranked out in 7 days!!!! From idea to realization and I am very proud. Cheers to many more and making the next one better than ever! Love you, Seda Weda!

Today is the final day to grab your goodies, BLK Florist Month Newspaper and take a photo with the Flower Bud Installation!

(1100 15th St NW) from 3p to 7p

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DID YOU KNOW that is a DC Flower Bud? ✨

The incomparable Samuel L. Jackson is a DC Native. Before attending and moving to Chattanooga, Tennessee, Jackson was an only child and had a stuttering problem. He overcame this challenge by “pretending to be other people that didn’t stutter.” As an only child myself, that resonated with me deeply!

Big shoutout to the OG ! 💐

The BLK Florist Month Pop Up Shop is coming to an end… but we’ve got one more week to vibe together! 💐

It’s more than an Instagrammable moment. This monthlong project allows us to travel through time, learning about the florists of African descent that have broken ground for creatives like me, today. I went down a rabbit hole 🕳 searching through archival print and library collections to curate a piece of Black history to wrap your flowers in, and take home forever.

The BLK FLORIST MONTH POP UP SHOP is open today, and Mon-Fri from 3pm - 7pm at in Midtown Center.

1100 15th St NW (near and across from )

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Hey Flower Buds 🥰💐

Our friends at spotlighted as a feature Black owned business during Black History Month, and we are just so grateful… for this highlight, our monthly business meetings, and our ambassador relationship to help BLK FLWR MRKT reach peak marketability. We are very proud to be a !

Learn more about me and the history of Black florists at the BLK FLORIST Pop Up Shop: RESTOCK TMRW!!!!

Located at
1100 15th St NW
M - F from 3-7pm

(thank you in advance for your grace as we restock and ship items this Vday season! 🙏🏾)

Our D-I-Y Eucalyptus Shower Bunch Lab is SO much fun! 💐

Have you signed up for one of our Flower Labs? Here’s what we have coming up:

• AFRO HOUSE Spirit Fest at on 2/18 from 12-6pm
• Smudge Stick Lab at on 2/19 (SOLD OUT)
• Smudge Stick Lab at on 2/20
• Cacao + Smudge Stick Lab at on 2/25
• Pop Up Shop at Open House 2/28 from 5-7pm

Check the link in our bio to RSVP, or book a Private Lab for your loved ones (also in our bio!)

We host monthly workshops with our friends at . Please see the link in my bio to purchase tickets for our March Labs.

Meet us at The Bouquet Bar at tomorrow (Saturday, 2/11) and make the Bouquet of yours ☁️dREaMs✨ with my friends at

For the Last Minute Lovers and Flower Buds across the land. Can’t wait to see you there 💐 RSVP in the link in bio!

We’ll have Pampas, Reflexed Roses, Hand Dyed Baby’s Breath and soooo much more! And, our BLK Florist Month Newspaper to wrap all arrangements in a piece of Black History, or make it real-real fancy and arrange in our luxury BLK FLWR MRKT Bouquet Box 💅🏾✨

BLK Florist Month Pop Up Shop is OPEN 💐

Ask Jason if you can come behind the register and strike a pose in front of our Flower Bud Installation! Can’t wait to see y’all cute tail selves 🥰💐✨

BLK Florist Month Pop Up Shop
1100 15th St NW
2/1 - 2/28, M - F 3p - 7p

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In 1968, the entire nation was in an uproar and deep pain due to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Cities were literally burning down with rage, and DC was an epicenter of this ethos.

Folks looted and burned business to display a radical sense of anti-establishment and to give a huge middle finger to the white supremacy plaguing the… uh, world. , a now 120-year old Italian family florist, was one of the establishments.

Pictures is the boarded up business with Caruso’s banner hanging with a bit of a limp, from 1968. Bricks and glass lay dormant as an aftermath of the District’s anguish.

While Caruso Florist isn’t a Black owned florist, their business is within the city’s Black story as living history and witness to how Chocolate City felt in the late 80s, a sentiment spread across all 8 wards.

(Oop. It’s giving journalism 😌😜💐) Learn more about the history of Black florists in America at our month long pop up shop:
BLK Florist Month Pop Up Shop
1100 15th St NW
M - F // 3p- 7p

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BLK Florist Month Pop Up Shop

M-F // 3p - 7p

See you Monday (we’ve got surprises)

Photographer: Unknown (please tag if you know)

FREE Smudge Stick Lab 💐

We are elated to join at this years AFRO HOUSE! Celebrate Black History Month with healing traditions such as smudging, participate in drum circles, engage in sound baths, spoken word and much more!

In the Smudge Stick Lab, we manifest our goals with the help of flowers, creating Smudge Sticks that will last for over a year. We will have our Eucalyptus Shower Bunches and BLK Florist Month Newspapers, too!

LINK IN BIO 💐

BLK Florist Month Pop Up Shop is OPEN 💐

Y’all looking cute and pulling up to the pop up like CEO, ?! 😍💐😘

Start the weekend off right with a fresh Eucalyptus Shower Bunch from our Pop Up Shop at . Send me pics and tag us so we can repost!

Eucalyptus Shower Bunches, Dried Florals + more curated items each week!

M - F // 3-7pm at in

Chicago, IL. The street where I live, 2000. Photograph series by Toya Werner Martin

It’s really the flower medicine for me. Seeing the bundles eucalyptus and yarrow drying on the wall of this Dad’s house is so endearing. Eucalyptus is a perfect organic remedy for your little ones. Peel petals off and massage the leaves into your chest for a deeper sensation.

Learn more about the history of Black florists in America in our monthlong pop up shop, BLK Florist Month:


1100 15th St NW
M-F / 3-7pm

DID YOU KNOW that before starting , Earl G. Graves, Sr. was a florist?

As a college student at , Earl G. Graves Sr. started a college-based flower business because local white florists were unwilling to make deliveries there.

Learn more about the history of Black florists in America at our monthlong pop up shop at , M-F from 3-7pm. Each BLK FLWR MRKT purchased comes with a vintage newsprint from a Black publisher, with an article about a Black florist that dates back to the early 1900s 💐

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Photo 2: Black Enterprise Magazine's Earl G. Graves receiving a proclamation from Tom Bradley, Los Angeles, 1987. CSUN Digital Collections

Harlem, NY. “Flower Lady” photographed by Beatrice Kosofsky (1935)

For BLK Florist Month, we are celebrating the legacy of Black florists in America through newsprint and archival research. Throughout the month of February, visit us in-store at to wrap your Eucalyptus Shower Bunch and arrangements in a piece of Black history - a vintage newspaper featuring articles on Black florists nationwide and since the early 1900s.

Follow us online to learn more about the Black florists’ experience, from a Black florist (me!)

SEE YOU TOMORROW, and all month long at
M - F // 3p - 7p

Black florists history in DC and America runs deep 💐

This Black History Month, I cannot WAIT to share my research about the history and legacy of Black florists in America. We’ll host a MONTH LONG pop up shop for you to explore and engage with this rich history through the lens of newsprint at . Turn your post notifications on because you will not want to miss this fun and interactive history lesson on Black floristry this February!

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BLK Florist Month Pop Up Shop from 2/1 - 2/28 M - F 3-7p.

To answer your question (I can hear you asking it from here, 😂)… WE WILL ABSOLUTELY HAVE EUCALYPTUS SHOWER BUNCHES IN STOCK, each and every day!

Sharing more deets 1/31 and all February long!

From shower therapy to home decor, just like *🤌🏾* that

I never, ever recommend to toss your Eucalyptus Shower Bunch in the teach after hanging in your shower for 6+ weeks. Re-purpose your dried Eucalyptus Shower Bunch as dried decor for years to come, like world-renowned gardener and interiolist Umbetro Pasti for

Get your dose of shower therapy, and home decor, all with our Eucalyptus Shower Bunch 🌿

Available for nationwide delivery via www.blackflowermarket.com and local DC delivery on

📸 Photo Cred: Letta Moore, owner of