Making Myself $1000 Bouquet 💐💐💐 (or at least as big as I can)
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- Join Serina as she explores the garden for all the best flowers to make the biggest bouquet that is physically possible. The goal is $1000 - are my hands strong enough? I'm picking all the best stuff that I usually hoard for myself, such as sea holly, echinops, bells of ireland, phlox, scabiosa, yarrow, ammobium, and more! Which is your favorite colour palate of the 2 final bouquets?
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It might be good to have big show pieces at the market stand that consist of very open flowers. They would be intended to draw people in rather than be for sale
Agreed! I WANT a bouquet that is made up of unusual flowers and fillers like seaholly and bells of Ireland :)
that would be an amazing display and might just draw more special orders
Great idea , that bouquet could also be for sale , for the right price . $200-300 bouquet
This is amazing! I agree, do these for displays and I bet you get specialty orders! Serena you are so talented! I love flower bouquets. Great job! ❤😊🤗
That blue bouquet is stunning! You should take pictures of your “special” bouquets.. use them as artwork/marketing.. show off your amazing talent.. and gorgeous flowers!
Those bigger bouquets are amazing. I'd buy them. It drives me crazy when you go to the florist and they're all full of green filler. Your bouquets aren't like that which makes them amazing and, for me, that would make the larger bouquet very hard to resist. Maybe a few $50 bouquets could help move things at the market or encourage a few special orders?
Pleasure watching you geek out on your bouquet! It was beastly beautiful! 😂✌🏻❤️
The maniacal laugh was excellent!
The blue and white bouquet is just AMAZING. Definitely could be a bride's bouquet. So glad you are treating yourself! Im watching your video now and see the end result of the colorful bouquet with the lilies and gorgeous sunflowers. Just beautiful. You are truly talented. I love your daughter's reaction! 😃
That was so much fun to watch you build such fabulously beautiful bouquets. I love that you see the potential in plants more often considered weeds.
This was so fun! Turned out absolutely stunning! Serina's bouquet making has grown by leaps and bounds. From a flower hater to master bouquet maker! 🎉 Tip from Georgie at Common Flower Farm...make three $30 dollar bouquets, so they are easier to hold, then tie them together. Blessings, -Kate
I just found Georgie a couple of days ago. what a delight she is!
This is one of your best videos! Love these bouquets and so enjoyed watching the process.
I have very small hands. When I work with stems like glads or Lillies, my hands give out so easily. I applaud your hand strength. The blue and white was by far my favorite. It was light and elegant and those bells of Ireland really brought the whole piece together. ❤️
I have small hands too: make a few smaller bouquets and put those together to form one big one! You have to practise a bit to get the colours/shapes distributed well, but it really works.
The flowers are beautiful!
At the flower shop i work at, we have our stem chopper anchored to a block of wood and clamped to the edge of a work bench. Yours was making me nervous for your fingers!😅
That blue and white bouquet is absolutely divine!
Have you considered reaching out to a photographer to do a styled shoot one of these days?
I started getting into growing flowers just so that I could have a steady supply of blooms and wouldn't have to buy them just for photoshoots and styled work and I'm always looking for flower farms to work with. I'm not in your area, but I'm curious if teaming up with a photographer to do a couple of shoots could pad your marketing images on the farmer/florist side of things?
You both have so much on your plate that I can see how that could be too much of a demand on your time/bandwidth to dedicate for images you may or may not use, so I get how that may not be in the cards right now as well. Just as a photographer who does styled shoots I drooled over your bouquets and all the dreamy possibilities for styled marketing work.
Serena is so great at combining colors, shapes, and textures! Beautiful! Artista! ❤
Unbelievably beautiful! Both of them stunning!
Amazing bouquets! You are so so talented! Are you making 40 & 50 dollar bouquets for the market? At least make some, people will buy❤
I loved them both but the blue was perfection. Never seen you be so rough with the flowers though😂I hope you use them for marketing, they are a fabulous example of what you can do. How much is a bridal bouquets in your area? ❤❤❤ I think the tissue paper really elevated the wrap...I think you should do that on all of your flowers.
It can never be too much! Love the huge bucket of flowers!! 💐
The BIG BLUE/white/green bouquet….
Now that I would buy!!!
I love this video. So many wonderful things; self care, challenges, use of unusual flowers , ‘weeds’, and fun - lots of fun!
We watched this episode right before bed last night (the sunflower/lily was my fav--stunning!), and then I had a horrible nightmare that a spider was biting me and wouldn't let go! 😂😂😂 Last night's dream...sponsored by Serina! 🤣
Gorgeous bouquets!! So much fun to watch!!
That's amazing it's my first time to see you make huge flower bouquet for your safe hope oneday your husband make you one by him self for you
Way to live up the to the challenge....you knocked it out of the ballpark! Just spectacular!
Marketing idea......host a summer long contest. Every person who purchases from the stand can fill out an entry to the draw. The draw ticket should have name, phone number and email address. At the end of the summer draw for a "$1000 bouquet." This way, you would be able to create an email address list and be able to use it to send out emails as you want throughout the year and....someone wins a "$1000 bouquet."
(I loved running into you in Kelowna on Canada Day as we observed the Knox Hill fire together. It was your voice I recognized first. Sorry I didn't get to met Ian but someone had to sell $1200 at the Farmer's Market that day, the boss has high expectations!)
I am so jealous of you. A life with flowers. Before Co vid I went to a florist and got their trash flowers and play. You did it for you. Happy you. You, and your hubby are really a good match. Kitties, too!! I had some hard times and could not afford flowers that I normally do. Instead , I got flower seeds from a the Lakota children that I donate to. They sent me seeds to plant. Some did not do too well. It took some time; but I am blooming. It actually made my year extra special waiting for the blooms I planted by seed. Gardening is not easy work. You can have failures and success. Also, I call them volunteers that bloom on their own. you are awesome. Jackie
Hands down, one of my favorite videos. Top #3: this one, the Halloween one, and the farm tour that ended in a pink jumpsuit celebration. So much fun :)
Your excitement is relatable! My husband has learned romance is buying me seeds/plants so I can grow my own and put my own bouquets together 😂
You need to make a contest...100 or 120th customer who buys a boutique will win one of the arrangements that was made.
That blue and white bouquet is amazing.
I love how excited you were doing these and I hope you thoroughly enjoyed them in your home!!
this is most amazing. I live in Ontario and was chatting at a local farmer's market on Saturday to a local flower seller like you. And she follows you like I do. You are so real and we appreciate this about your channel. Good luck going forward. Hugs and Cheers
Thank you for taking time to spoil yourself. You earned it! Your beautiful bouquets inspire me to plant more flowers😁
Gorgeous flowers ,, I would be very happy indeed to receive them 🌸🌼🌺
I love it :) Echinops! Eryngium! all the blue!
omg....that blue bouquet!!!!! Gorgeous! Thanks so much for sharing your talents, love your videos :)
Thank you so much!
As a home gardener, I just now realized how lucky I am to hoard ALL the things, lol. I'm so happy you indulged 😁
Same! It’s rewarding and brings me so much joy to reap the rewards of growing them :). Also, the benefit of having things that I don’t see in my local shops, (we don’t have much by way of market growers in my area, mostly produce).
I do the same! I made myself a decent size bouquet of Dahlia, zinnia, salvia, statice, and spider plant flower shoots. All from the garden 😀
I really think you should put some of these on your stand, maybe just to draw in customers or put a ridiculous price on them so that they feel your smaller ones are a great deal.
When I fantasize about growing a lush flower garden, those are the kind of bouquets I dream of making!!! Wow!!!
The Blue was my fav. Do more of these fun, short videos I loved it! 💙💙💙 and I am so happy to see you gift yourself such a lovely and perfect bouquet, you work hard and you deserve it 👍🤗😁
made a paypal gift to fund these bouquets! “Talk about essential flower farming skills”
Thank you so much! That's so generous! Now you have gifted me a bouquet, lol
THEY ARE SOOOO BECAREFUL!!! You definitely need to write a book on flowers and their names and how to build a Senria bouquets!!!
I'm biased towards the blue and white, but the the second is stunning too! Congratulations on the holding skills, because I'd have been playing pick-up-flowers.
It's such fun to watch you put those bouquets together, they are stunning!
My new favorite bouquet colors are the white, blue, green with a hint of yellow, They look so refreshing in the upper 90 degree temps we have been having, Commenting as I watch you craft the punchy color bouquet and I'm loving those too.💐🍅
Well the giant lily and all the summer orange and purple flowers belong on my dining table TODAY. and the cool whites and greens in the foyer when I come in from the HEAT. Great designs as always and enjoy your own well earned giant custom bouquets,.
The blue bouquet is a dream of a bouquet! So exotic!!!! It is a feast for the eyes 😍
They’re so beautiful ❤️ It’s important to remember to do nice things for ourselves every once in a while😊
U should definitely leave these in the stand and see if they would sell 😆
That was a very exciting episode! I think it should be an annual event that Serena treats herself to a monster bouquet!
I loved the blue one best. That shade of green and the blue WOULD be a beautiful wedding theme!
If The Drummer brought home a big statement bouquet like one of those, I’m pretty sure he’d get lucky. 😂
Take some to market as a display to advertise that you do special orders. I would order one of those for my Mum's birthday in a heartbeat.
You two are amazing! Those two Bouquets are FABULOUS!!! I'll be watching to see if they sell.........Blessings!!!
Those are two of the most beautful bouquets I've ever seen. The blue one is exactly what I wanted when I got married over 20 years ago, but I ended up with something very tame and barely blue.
More flowers! More!! MORE!!!!😂
The blue and white bouquet is stunning! So, so beautiful.
The perks of owning a flower farm lol
The blue white and lime green one really was outstanding.
Chartreuse is my favorite colour, so I love anything close to it in flowers
Omg. Those are beautiful ! Great job! I hope the orders come flooding in girl!!!!! 🙏🏼😊♥️
You should indulge. Why grow them if you can’t get a bouquets for yourself that you love! Enjoy!!
Wish I lived close enough to purchase from you guys. Love flowers!! I’m on the east coast of Canada on PEI!!
The plain white bouquets might not be selling at the market because you’re hoarding all the blue!😂🤣
After reading all these comments of how many people are loving the blue & white with the bells of Ireland, I think it would be so fun to make a $40 or $20 much smaller version of this same colour combo for the market and just see how well it does. I bet it sells SO much better than the all white bouquets.
Definitely include three Bells, three Fama Deep Blue Scabiosa and one stem of Sea Holly…those really stand out in the white flowers. And purple Veronica for a spike flower. Oooh! If you had a little Bupleurum as a filler I think that colour would go really nicely with the Bells.
You know you want to!
So so beautiful!!!!❤❤❤
Ahhh that DEFINITELY feeds my flower addiction. That was the fix I wanted. I loved the multi color bouquet, and the blue and white one was awesome as well. Well done you!
Boy that was fun!! loved watching you do this for yourself!! I love them both...blue/white one for me. I couldn't sell the white bouquet though at market. The colorful one would go for sure, ....I don't plant alot of white flowers. They just don't sell. I have sold a few white /limes/greens together. But, the right person to buy it would need to show up! Gorgeous bouquets!!!
That was really cool. Basically fantasy bouquets. Maybe this is something you can do once or twice a year. It seems to really feed your creative juices, making a bouquet(s) with no limits except your own eye. Very amazing.
Your flower combinations have improved over the years. Great looking bouquets!
Boy did you ever have fun! 😄 Photos at the stand would be awesome! Especially if the images are blown up.
Indulge, you deserve it! 💐🌻🌼🪅🎖️
Alongside information that they sell custom bouquets. ❤
Good idea
Serena I'm with you, my favorite bouquets are white and blue flowers. Elegance.
Now that is beautiful! (The blue one- I forgot you were making a 2nd one, haven't seen that one yet! 😂) I LOVE those colors! Definitely could be a bridal bouquet!
OK just finished watching & they're both beautiful but loved the first one!
Local restaurants/hotels, offices and corporate events will definitely go for these bouquets. Check out your party rental places. They might be able to recommend you for smaller events like baby showers
Yhe blue and white bouquet was stunning. I think I never seen bells of ireland look that good before. I think having a simple photo album for customers to flip thtough at the market of these decadent creations will help sell special orders for sure!
I loved all of these! I can grow flowers inside but can only grow basil flowers outside. I love the dark opal basil. It's a deep purple with great flavor any amazing flowers.
BEAUTIFUL 🌺🌺🌺
I have heard lilies are poisonous to cats. Is it true? Also, I need you to do purple and yellow ranunculus next spring. So beautiful. Btw droid you guys skip rainbow bouquets this year?
The glee with which Serena displayed totally had me the entire time! I love it! 😂.
And they came out simply amazing. Can you ever have too many rudbeckia? Such a happy flower.
Wow those are gorgeous! If I lived near you I'd be one of your weekly customers!! Such great combinations!
That was so fun! You should definitely have an extreme bouquet option for your special orders. I would tell my husband to get me one of those for every birthday/anniversary! So fun to see you enjoy the process. 😁
You say self indulgent and I laugh. You did do all the work of growing those, right?! Enjoy them. This was wonderful.
Your are so hard workers. Any success you diserv it, oh yes. How about to put more bouquets in your stand? Especially on Sundays. Cause you sell there more than the market. In the stand you have 4 lefts or so, in the market you have more lefts. How about that idea?
Best video ever! Who knew bouquet’s could be that big and beautiful! Great job Serena!
Our grocery store here in Pennsylvania with Cell one of those bouquets from anywhere between $35 and $45. I wish you were closer!
Why do I enjoy watching you work so hard. It’s not right. Love your channel and while flower arrangements.
You should definitely sell these! Bring 3 to your farmer's market with what you think is a fair price, I bet they all sell!!! Do it for a video if nothing else!!!
High end hotels and wedding centier pieces are that big !
For the white bouquets try painting a few whispy leaves (maybe grass) in silver and stick them in might attract some attention. Good luck
Your bouquets are lovely! I was a wedding florist in my professional life. When we made large, hand tied bouquets, we put them in shallow cylinders so that people could see the structure of the stems. I agree with what others have said. I’d send one of those to market every week.
Lots of people seem to like the blue & white. Well, l LOVE the colourful liles, rudbaeckia & sunflower one! ❤❤❤
I love the white daisy looking flower with the blue ball thingies all by themselves! what are the names? I love watching your videos..they make me happy and encourage me to get out to the gardens and pack my finger nails with soil!!
So beautiful!!!!! Take nice pictures and start setting up "special orders catalog"
really enjoyed watching this weeks video, the market bouquets really dont showcase your full talent.
Try making three bouquets, then tying them together. Much better for your hands and wrist. Gorgeous bouquets! ❤
May be you can also reduce distance. Cause you invest many time to walk to your stand, to walk to your field, to your fridge, to the workshop where you make the bouquets. If you can solve this matter, think you can have much more time for anything you need and also to rest.
Good for you!! Your bouquets are absolutely beautiful!! Enjoy them!!! You should try a few of the larger ones at market and see how they do. They definitely make a statement!!!
“If I can’t do it by myself, then I didn’t do it by myself”… Never related more to a comment EVER 😂
Love the first bouquet, super classy. The second one is a bit too much, all those huge flowers next to each other make it look tirying. So more of the first please :))
Do you have a sign at the market that you do special bouquets for order? Maybe that's a thing you need, and than you can do your XXL bouquets! 😊
It might be Eryngium Big Blue or Eryngium Bourgatii.
Bourgatii also have very blue stems too.x
I STILL have a smile plastered on my face! And the viedo has been over for at least 3 min.s while I read the comments, then wrote this comment😊. Loved this video!!!🎉❤🎉
I have often wondered - during these times of creation, aren't they getting parched? Don't they need to go into water ASAP? But my goodness they are stunning!!
I hope you are doing ok. Farming is hard. Building a business is hard. Have several irons in the fire. Explore other ideas.
Hang in there.
That brown that you said looks like bull rushes, looks like narrow leaf plantain, seed head, they are pretty, and good medicine
That blue bouquet is so huge and I'm sure if I was looking at it up close I can easily pick out all the pretty flowers... but it looks like too much green filler for me. I very much prefer the second one, where it looks like the fluff is only on the outside edge of all the flowers 🥰
Not at all a practical idea, but a giant statement bouquet at the farmers market that people can take Instagram photos with would be amazing. Unfortunately at the roadside stand, I think people might steal flowers from there if it's not marked for sale.
I have a Mallow Zabrina growing for the wildlife but wow I’ve cut and put some in vase of water and wow its a lovely filler flower and has lasted 5 days and still flowering looking fresh.
Last one, when you get overwhelmed with flowers, hold a pick your own flowers event and donate the extra bouquets to nursing homes