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Friday Flowers: Studio Choo

Studio Choo is a Bay Area based floral studio owned by two best friends, Althea Harampolis and Jill Rizzo.  They use locally-grown flowers as often as possible, and their arrangements are always fresh and seasonally-inspired. In addition to designing flowers for weddings, the team wrote an adventurous floral and gardening column for the blog, Design*Sponge, titled, “We Like […]

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A peek in the greenhouse at Blithewold Mansion

Blithewold Mansion has a small but impeccably-maintained greenhouse on its property. When I was there a few weeks ago for the Daffodil Days event, I had to peek in. The variety of plants and colors in that one little area is astonishing. The fact that they have some well established citrus trees gives me hope that […]

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Friday Flowers: Saipua

Note: I was originally going to post about several floral designers, but it would’ve been a ridiculously long post! Since “April showers bring May flowers”  – let’s switch up the Friday Explorer’s Club feature to be all about flowers this month. I got really into flowers when I started planning my wedding back in 2008. […]

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