It’s Earth Day! Here at Ideas in Bloom, we strive to do our part for the environment and remain as green as possible while still providing our clients with the widest variety of cut flowers and designs available. The cut flower industry isn’t the most environmentally friendly (flowers are shipped from all corners of the world year round) and we strive to make choices every day that help lesson our carbon footprint. Here are our top five…
Recycling. This goes well beyond reusing the flower boxes large orders come in or recycling the floral paper used to wrap bouquets. We carry a large selection of unique rental items that not only allow our couples to cut costs, but ensure the multiple use. Additionally, we always encourage clients to bring in their own, reused, containers around the holidays and tend to see the same family heirlooms year after year.
Living Decor. Given Pam’s background in horticulture, it’s no surprise that we routinely provide plant decor for weddings and all other events. From centerpieces to large installations, we’ve done it all. In partnership with one of our growers, we also offer rental of larger trees and shrubs. Talk about impact! Click here to see one of our collaborations.
Composting. Retail florists often don’t have this option based on their geography, but as a independent studio in a more rural area, we actively compost all of our discarded floral material. Our compost has even built a burm on which Pam installed a landscape!
Energy Efficiency. During the busy wedding season our cooler hums, keeping all the flowers destined for celebration as fresh as can be. When we don’t have events, we turn it off to save the energy and fuel.
Cutting Garden. This is still a work in progress for us. Each spring we hope to till more land to expand our gardens to include a true cutting field. Sadly, it hasn’t happened yet, so for now we supplement our wholesale supplied flowers with blooms cut from Pam’s amazing existing gardens. My favorite harvest are the Hosta leaves. Gorgeous!
Have an Earth Day “resolution” or an unique way you stay green? Share it with us here!
learn more at http://www.earthday.org/
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