The Virtuous Daughter Magazine Winter 2016/17 Edition | Page 27
Continue adding bouquets until you have nearly a foot of jute left . For your last bunch , turn it the opposite direction and wire into place so that it covers the wire from the previous bunch . You may need to tuck in a few branches to cover any empty spots . Spread your garland down the center of a table or over a mantle and enjoy your lovely creation .
Flowers can be expensive , and often the ones we buy from the grocer or a florist have traveled a long way and are ready to expire soon after we get them . This expense and poor quality is what prompted my sisters and I to start our own small flower business , Root Design Company . We ’ re a seasonal flower farm with an eye to those lovely , old-fashioned , sweet-smelling blooms our grandmas grew . We ’ ve kept our day jobs , so we stay busy enough , moonlighting ( and weekending ) as farmer florists . It ’ s not all beautiful peonies and lush dahlias , though . There ’ s a fair amount of compost and weeds and black landscape fabric and crop rotation involved , but we wouldn ’ t trade it and truly love what we are able to do . You can find us on Instagram and Facebook if you ’ d like to join the fun . Tutorial by Rosita Schrock , Photography by LaRonda Schrock
Finish the end
Continue adding bouquets until you have nearly a foot of jute left . For your last bunch , turn it the opposite direction and wire into place so that it covers the wire from the previous bunch . You may need to tuck in a few branches to cover any empty spots . Spread your garland down the center of a table or over a mantle and enjoy your lovely creation .
Of farmers and flowers
Tutorial by Rosita Schrock , Photography by LaRonda Schrock
Flowers can be expensive , and often the ones we buy from the grocer or a florist have traveled a long way and are ready to expire soon after we get them . This expense and poor quality is what prompted my sisters and I to start our own small flower business , Root Design Company . We ’ re a seasonal flower farm with an eye to those lovely , old-fashioned , sweet-smelling blooms our grandmas grew . We ’ ve kept our day jobs , so we stay busy enough , moonlighting ( and weekending ) as farmer florists . It ’ s not all beautiful peonies and lush dahlias , though . There ’ s a fair amount of compost and weeds and black landscape fabric and crop rotation involved , but we wouldn ’ t trade it and truly love what we are able to do . You can find us on Instagram and Facebook if you ’ d like to join the fun . Tutorial by Rosita Schrock , Photography by LaRonda Schrock