Flower Friends
Come along as Sarah from Grow Girl Seattle builds a small flower business and chats with inspiring guests about growing and designing flowers.
Episodes
29 episodes
Bearded Iris with Liz Schreiner-Schmidt
On today's episode, Liz Schreiner-Schmidt, President of Schreiner's Gardens in Salem, Oregon, stops by to discuss bearded iris! Iris are in all their glory at their display garden right now, which is open through May 31st. If you don't make it ...
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Live from London: Chelsea Flower Show
Sarah’s in London in garden & flower heaven, and recorded a quick lowdown of her visit so far - Kensington Gardens, Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and the RHS Chelsea Flower Show!
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Mums and Flower Farming with Miranda Bowman
Today we get to talk with Miranda from Wildrye Farm about the heirloom chrysanthemums she grows and sells plugs of, and about her amazing farm in Bellingham, Washington where she specializes in sustaina...
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Daffodils with Jason Delaney
Season 4 is here, and we're kicking it off with a bang - Jason Delaney from PHS Daffodils stops by to chat about everything daffodils! Jason specializes in classic, historic, and novel varieties for garden & exhibition. I got t...
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Sarah Sesh: Signature Flowers & Seed Starting Part III
The seed starting episode is in! On this episode, I share how I start seeds here at grow Girl Seattle, both for indoor and outdoor sowing. I go through my timing, what my setup is like, cover the tools and supplies I use, how I get my seeds sta...
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1:31:54
Sarah Sesh: Signature Flowers & Seed Starting Part II
Let's continue our convo on signature flowers and seed starting, Flower Friends! In today's episode I take you through my personal brainstorm of my favorite flowers and foliage, and how I used the brainstorm list to narrow down what I'll be gro...
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Sarah Sesh: Signature Flowers & Seed Starting Part I
This week is all about signature flowers and seed starting! In this two part series, I’ll walk you through an exercise I decided to do before starting seeds this year, and give some updates on where I’m at with seed sowing. Part I cover...
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Sarah Sesh: Winter Garden Tour
Come along on a walk through my January garden. When the rain let up and I saw some sun shining this morning, I thought it would be the perfect time to take stock of what's where in the garden, what space I have open, what projects I want to wo...
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Sarah Sesh: Mindset
To kick off season 3, I share six mindset practices I've been working on to lay the foundation for the new year and help reduce Instagram stress and comparison: Set priorities to act with confidence and intentionCreate...
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The Magic of Flowers with Yasmine Mei
Yasmine Mei from Yasmine Floral Design stops by the pod for our Season 2 finale, bringing all of her floral magic with her. Yasmine's d...
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Sourcing Seeds with Renee Shepherd
Have you ever gotten a seed packet and wondered how those seeds made it to you? Or what an organic seed really is? Or what 'heirloom' means? Well today we get to learn all about seeds with THE Renee from ...
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Michelle Nathan from Little Free Flowery
This week we're talking to Michelle Nathan from Little Free Flowery, a flower stand where Michelle shares her homegrown flowers with her neighbors and community. It's such a big hit! Michelle describes why and how she started the stand, how she...
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Celebrating Local Flowers with Rebecca Noble
It was such a pleasure to speak with floral designer and podcaster Rebecca Noble from LLB and Dish the Dirt podcast. ...
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Cacti & Other Cool Plants with Meg Meyer
Brain-like cactus? A cactus that only blooms for one night? Slime mold? Hair ice!? Zebra succulents? How cool are these plants!?? Cactus CEO Meg Meyer from Propagate Positivity fills...
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Season Check-In with the OG Flower Friends
On this episode, we check back in with Margaret Ullman-Hess from Ballard Urban Flowers, Kristin Ryzebol from Ne...
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1:10:35
Dahlias with LeeAnn Huber
Today we're talking dahlias with LeeAnn Huber from Coseytown Flowers! LeeAnn discusses her background in agriculture, how she got interested in dahlias, what her growing space is like, and then introd...
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Roses and More with Arielle Zamora
Today we are joined by Arielle Zamora from Small Yard Flowers to chat about her farm, flowers, and artful floral design. We talk about her growing spaces, what she grows there, her event and design work, the unmatched beauty of fresh local flow...
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Minisode in Athamma's Garden
In this bonus episode, Sarah walks through her Athamma's (mother-in-law's) beautiful flower and vegetable garden. Usha Nayani grows several varieties of vegetables, herbs, and flowers at her home in Yorktown, Virginia. It was such a special vis...
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Farm Tour of The Farmhouse Flower Farm with Marryn Mathis
It's the start of season 2, and our first ever Flower Friends Field Trip to the Farmhouse Flower Farm in Stanwood, Washington! The intrepid Marryn Mathis walks us through her sweet pea tunnels, field grown sweet pea rows, her bearded iris and p...
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Floral Design with Alyssa Lytle
In the Season 1 finale of Flower Friends, Sarah sits down with Alyssa Lytle, whose floral design business Color Theory Design Co. and educational platform
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1:04:43
Residential Landscape Design with Dorsey Kilbourn
Sarah kicks off the episode with her thoughts on what sustainability means for her business & garden practices (2:30), and will be covering sustainability on the floristry side next week. Listen to the flower fact trivia question (23:00), w...
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Expand Your Growing Space with Kristin Ryzebol
Kristin Ryzebol really meant it when she named her business Neighborhood Flower Co. because she has expanded her growing space to her neighbor's yards and community spaces! Brilliant! ...
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Lisies, Cosmos, and Dried Flowers with Jess Wesley
I had so many laughs with my lovely guest and friend Jess Wesley from Curly Girl Gardens on today's episode of Flower Friends, where we talked about her business offerings, urban...
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