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