If you need me to convince you to plan a road trip with your daughter/mother/best friend/sister/significant other/stranger off the street to go wander among rows of flowers, cutting fresh blooms and trying your hand at arranging bouquets, then this is the post for you!!
Just Bloom Flower Farm, run by Emma Cole and her family, { shout out to future flower farmer Pip } is in Middle Musquodoboit and well worth the drive from anywhere you are. The rural setting, nestled among the hills, dales and meandering rivers of the Musquodoboit Valley is picturesque but if you level that up with a dairy farm, some stone walls, lush green lawns and adorable cows, well, it doesn’t get much prettier!! While we strolled flower rows with scissors in hand, Emma chatted with her guests, guiding us in the art of cutting fresh flowers, arranging bouquets and even taking the odd picture, all while keeping an eye on Pip and carry her littlest one, Tilly, tucked in close. Her middle child, Lauchie, was too busy dairy farming with his dad to bother much with us ladies clipping our blooms.
Pip’s little cluster of blooms
Don’t ask me the names of any of these flowers, I couldn’t tell you. Everyone gathered whatever struck their fancy, clipping blooms, stripping stems and tucking them into their various vessels. I took my good old green enamelware coffee pot, it is still my favourite for bouquets. I decided I wanted to do a colour scheme of a deep wines and purples paired with creamy blossoms. Sure the bright pinks and yellows called to me but I was craving something a little softer, a little more subtle. And yes, I had bouquet-envy as I watched everyone else’s colourful clusters start to come together but I stayed the course and I have to say, I’m glad I did.
When Hannah and I got home, we trimmed our blooms and made up our final bouquets, which was fun, too, playing floral designer. Hannah did up a bouquet just to dry for her room, and I love how it looks tucked into a sweet little thrifted pottery vase.
I had fun digging out my camera for the first time in quite some time. It made me realize how much I do enjoy taking pictures and writing and miss it. Thus, you are getting a blog post after all this time!! I love how the arrangements look gathered together on the front porch!
Just Bloom Flower Farms does lots of different events throughout the year. They do cutting garden seedling classes, wreath making, flower subscriptions, the cutting days like what we attended and lots more so I highly recommend giving Just Bloom a follow on Instagram HERE so you don’t miss out!!
Warmly,
Lori
