Root Design Co. Blog
GARDENING & FLORAL DESIGN
How to Grow Dahlias
Everyone wants to know how to grow dahlias these days. How do you plant dahlias? Where do you plant dahlias? What kind of fertilizer do you use for lots of dahlia blooms? How do you stake dahlias? You'd have to be hiding under a rock not to notice how dahlias...
How to Make a Bridal Bouquet
Back when I was first learning how to make a bridal bouquet, I struggled to piece together original designs from my dream list of flowers. Shoot, I still do. I thought that surely if I had a dozen Juliet roses and some peach ranunculus the details would just fall...
Easy to Grow Cut Flowers
Want to know what cut flowers are easy to grow? Find out what 7 annual flowers are easy to grow in your cut flower garden, and download our free PDF.
August Garden
The August garden feels like the peachy bloom in a year's bouquet. When I was a teacher (in that other life before flowers took over), August was a wild, crazy, exhausting month. Since the flowers came, things have changed. This year, August has been a gorgeous...
DIY Wedding Flowers: Timeline & Tips
DIY WEDDING FLOWERS: Today we’re going to take a closer look at DIY wedding flowers. We’ll include a timeline for the week of the wedding and a few tips we’ve learned along the way.
DIY Wedding Flowers vs. Hiring a Florist
We’re back with part three, a discussion on DIY wedding flowers vs. hiring a florist. (Read part ONE and TWO here.) You might want to grab a cup of coffee and some courage, because things are about to get frank.
Mennonite Weddings and Their Traditions
We find ourselves at a crossroads today, with one foot in Mennonite tradition and one on a banana peel. We want awesome, one-of-a-kind weddings, too, and realize too late the effort that goes into those affairs.
DIY Wedding Flowers, the Series
DIY WEDDING FLOWERS: introducing a short series on the pros and cons of doing your own wedding flowers.
Things Gardening Has Taught Me
The truth is, anything worth doing is going to take a lot of work, a lot of learning, plenty of persistence, and some good old-fashioned grit. New ventures are often accompanied by equal parts anxiety and delight.
Early June Garden Walk
May was madness, with its sultry temperatures and astonishing glut of peonies and ranunculus that came just as thousands of plants needed to be tucked into the ground. But now that we’re on this side of it, all those late nights of planting and harvesting have an undeserved rosy hue. Funny that you forget how it was so hard to walk upright and instead remember the first night the fireflies showed up or the way the garden smells in spring… all rich earth and fresh cut grass and the softest scent of spring flowers.