Floral & Brick

Wedding couples! Looking for just a few wedding floral items? Our a la carte wedding options are now on our website for purchase 🥰

For full service weddings using our locally grown and sustainable florals send us an inquiry at [email protected]

We cannot wait for 2025!!

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Specialty tulip bulbs are up on the website! Please note I don't ship at this time, so this one is just for local Hamilton folks! Head to the link in my bio to order.

Delivery or pickup will be the last week of October.

Tell your gardener friends! 🥰

This week you can order from our usual floral menu or from the Thanksgiving selection! Really looking forward to designing these, it's such a pretty time of year for local flowers and they add the perfect seasonal, sustainable touch to your home 🤎

As always, we are committed to using 100% locally grown flowers and foliage with no compromises. Thank you for supporting our attempts to change an environmentally harmful floral industry 🥰

An end of summer tablescape with

Seasonal blooms at this time of year are just scrumptious, with cosmos, feverfew, french marigolds, love in a puff vine, lisianthus in plum, lavender, and soft shell tones, pincushion flowers, Queen Anne's Lace, cafe au lait dahlias, gaura, juicy toned zinnias, explosion grass, and oregano and mint for greenery! Smells so good and looks so fresh, perfect for a dinner table al fresco.

I am so excited to be looking for someone to join me at Floral & Brick!! If you are serious about your career in floral design and you love local flowers, small business, and offering excellent service to clients, head to www.floralandbrick.com/jobs to see the job description and apply today!

Floral & Brick is studio-based, and has its own micro-farm. We offer event floral design services specializing in more intimate weddings, always using 100% locally grown flowers, both grown by us and purchased from other local farms.

This position is part-time to start, with increased hours in 2025.

I can't wait to hear from you! Please share with anyone who may be interested 🩷

Hello everyone! Sad but hopefully ok animal story incoming.

The other day driving home from the farm I passed a large majestic snapping turtle standing right by the side of the busy road. It had probably been there for a while (blood had dried) and its shell had been broken. Most likely from someone thinking they could just straddle the turtle with their car and keep on driving. Even though it was evening, Pete at the Turtle Watch in Dundas answered the phone and told me how to pick up the big guy and bring him to him for care. Second pic is after receiving first aid and pain killers. The turtle was taken the next day to the Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre.

I'm so grateful for people who selflessly give their time and emotional energy to the animals we share the earth with. I've made a donation to the Ontario Turtle Conservation and I'm hoping some of you will do the same, even just $5 if you can.

This locally grown bouquet is turtle themed, a gift for Pete 😊

Thank you for reading!

Happy wedding day to Bri and Cole!!

Every once and a while I just get so overwhelmed with emotions over how much I love what I do and how much I love all of you who support me in all the ways that you do. Your words of encouragement online, your bouquet orders, I appreciate it all so much. I put a lot of myself into my garden planning - over the winter I envision what flowers I will grow for each month and how the colours will come together. So when it comes time to create the bouquets I am literally SO excited every time! And it wouldn't be possible without your support so THANK YOU 🥰

Riding this ranunculus wave for probably only one more week and then they'll be gone until next year!! How I love flowing with the seasons of flowers 🤗

Tucked in this one is also one of Ontario's native honeysuckle! Ontario has a pretty bad invasive honeysuckle issue, so just a little tip to be careful which one you purchase. I love the butterscotchy tones of the foliage on this one as it goes through different phases, I use it all the time with more moody palettes.

Flower harvest photo dump! Tell me your favourite!!

Mother's Day is a week away! Preorders are open on the website until Thursday, and deliveries run Friday, Saturday, and Sunday ❤️ Thank you for your continued support!

The front and back of a recent flower order 🤗

Too many stars of the cutting garden right now! Double tulips, hellebores, double daffodils, fritillaria, hycainth, the sweet first small leaves of green 🥰

What are you loving in your garden?

Back from vacation and so thrilled to create my first order using 100% garden-grown flowers! That is always the best feeling and the sign of great things to come as the season progresses 💕

All my arrangements are always locally grown, but since I don't have a greenhouse I buy from other local growers throughout the winter 💐

Container garden inspo

London's calling! I'll take lots of garden pics 💕

Hellebore season 💓

I use all local flowers and greenery all year, but the greatest and most fun times begin now, when more and more flowers in my arrangements aren't just local but are straight from my own gardens. Garden-grown things always bring that magical touch, like the hellebores, sparkly white forsythia, and branchy, just-budding japanese quince here 🤗

Easter deliveries are this Friday and Sunday, and there will also be the prettiest tulips at !

Head to the link in my bio to grab your flowers 💐

Do you know just how many women flower growers there are in your area? One of the reasons I think I thrived when I found this profession is because of the amazing women supporting women vibe that is such a huge part of this community.

So, this International Women's Day I would like to encourage all of you out there (who don't already) to get to know your local flower growers! The women around you who you can reach out to when you need flowers. Who are doing amazing things for the floral industry by providing sustainable alternatives to the overwhelmingly unsustainable flowers that are everywhere. Who are doing so much for the environment by practicing eco-friendly farming and growing so many varieties of native and pollinator flowers, allowing little critters of all kinds to enjoy the environment along with humans. Who are putting so much effort into researching and curating special flowers to grow, starting them from seed and nurturing them all the way until they are lovingly placed in a bouquet that you can decorate your home and soul with, or show your love to someone else with.

These women work HARD and are doing amazing things for the community and environment, so show them some love!!

Here is a list of women flower growers in my local area, Southern Ontario. I did my best but I know I've missed some, please comment with anyone I've left out!



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Sweet pea tendrils in every bouquet in July 🤗. The last one's my favourite 🩷

Happy Valentine's Day!

You don't often see me posting about roses, but I sure do have an appreciation for the local ones 🥀

Roses are almost always imports in Ontario, but my secret as a local-only florist is that you can get spray roses (pics 2 and 3) locally-grown in many colours, all year round. Spray roses are roses with smaller, multiple flower heads on one stem. Super cute! But that's it, all others are imported in the winter, and not only that, unlike with foods the chemicals used on imported flowers are not subject to any regulation to Canadian standards at the border 😞

Pic 1 is an oh so special garden rose. I love them because of how often I see them in people's home gardens, living a somewhat wild and brambly existence as opposed to the stiff traditional long stem imported rose. I only grow a small amount of these beauties to enjoy during the growing season. I don't find them the easiest to grow so that they bloom prolifically and consistently, but I don't think I'll ever stop growing them.

Definitely worth adding to your cutting garden just for the pure joy they bring!

Do you grow roses?

Studio fashun 💅

Getting my messy studio ready for workshops this weekend and dreaming of warm sunny days ☀️

This is a really hard post for me to make, but I'm finding hard to do "business" and honestly just life without sharing this beautiful boy.

We had to say goodbye to Duke on the weekend. He was 15 and had congestive heart failure, something chihuahuas are unfortunately prone to.

We adopted him from 7 years ago as a senior pup, and he (and Maggie!) opened our hearts and changed our lives.

Maggie thankfully has a strong heart and is helping us get through.

Be at peace, Duke, you deserve it.

That time Danielle and Frank grew all their own flowers for their wedding!

Consulting with me, they chose what to grow, grew and harvested it all, and brought it to me to design with!

They are now addicted to flower growing (which is hard to avoid 😄) - you can follow them at to see what they are up to.

Send this to someone who you could see doing this for their wedding!

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My "Relaxing in the Garden After Work" Series.

Putting in a garden seat was the best thing I've done 🤗. Sometimes I relate the garden with work too much and don't always remember to stop and enjoy, and this lovely seat under the trees reminds me to stop and just look at the garden and take a moment for myself.

Welcome to my microfarm 🤗

I grow flowers on a little plot of land shared with me by

As you can see from pic 4, it's a bit of a wild space, I try to let nature be nature as much as possible. I am grateful for the gift of being able to make a living from nature and I want to show it respect and love in return. I don't need perfect straight lines or no weeds or bugs, that's not how nature works and that doesn't bring me joy to be around!

There are so many ways to grow flowers. If it's something you want to do, do it in a way that works for you and the space you have, and that makes you want to go to work each day!

Thanks for following along on my flower journey.

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