Garden Style Valentines Flowers

Why Local Blooms are a romantic choice

Valentines Day flowers should feel like they’ve been gathered from a flourishing garden - full of movement, texture and life. Yet so many bouquets come wrapped tightly in plastic and far removed from the earth they were grown in.

For those choosing Valentines Day flowers in Bacchus Marsh and Melton, the difference between supermarket flowers and locally grown, florist designed is the difference between something mass produced and something truly alive.

Grown by the seasons, not forced by demand.

Locally grown flowers Vs Supermarket flowers

In February the gardens on our Bacchus Marsh flower farm begin to shift. The days are definitely warming up, but the nights can bring a nice cool differnce. Mornings feel quieter with the birdsong and the bees buzzing around the flowers.

The garden is moving quietly but eagerly, pushing up those beautiful stems that we all adore in our bouquets, think Blousy Dahlias, Bright and cheerful Sunflowers, Romantic Lisianthus just like a rose but fluffier! The land is preparing for Sumer abundance.

Local flowers belong to this moment.

Whilst Supermarket and imported flowers can still have a place in the flower story and can be an easy option and convenient for some, they can quite often travel thousand of miles to arrive perfectly uniform, each bouquet exactly the same. They often arrive tired before they even reach the vase, sometimes having spent weeks in transit and storage. By the time they bloom their journey is already behind them.

Local flowers are different. They have been harvested either the night before or on the morning of designing. They continue to open slowly, respond to the warmth of the room, and last just as nature intended, not sprayed with harsh chemicals to make them last artificially longer, lets enjoy our flowers as they were meant to be, straight from the earth- truly fresh.

Choosing local flowers in Bacchus Marsh and Melton isn’t about rejecting Valentines day traditiosn. It’s about choosing something more thoughtful,something seasonal. Local flowers and foliages, garden Roses, local community,

This Valentines day, if you’re looking for flowers that feel meaningful, consider choosing blooms grown close to home- flowers that are part of this landscape, this season and this moment. Our mixed bouquets and arrangements generally contain around 90-100% of our own grown flowers and foliages whilst the Rose options have been sourced from our local markets as that is a flower that we are not yet growing on our farm. When we do source flowers from the markets we try and choose Australian grown flowers first and whenever possible.

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