My Mom likes to retell a story of a young me sitting at the kitchen table. She was cooking dinner, she doesn’t remember what she was cooking, but I remember that enchiladas were a house favorite.
I was watching her cook, mouth watering, and announced “Mom I like when dinners come out of that oven”, pointing to the oven, “and not THAT oven” pointing to the microwave. She laughs because she didn’t understand how she ended up with the only child in America that was repulsed by kid cuisine and easy mac.
But I could tell the difference between those microwave dinners and the ones she homemade with real ingredients and with love. And I could taste the good stuff from the beginning.
I remember my first year in flowers, I was an awestruck 18 year old girl working for a big-time wedding florist. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of flowers I didn’t yet know the names of. Week after week, we would process hundreds of flowers for our upcoming wedding that Saturday. One particularly hectic week in the studio, I was completely taken away with a flower I now know is named Campanula, colloquially named bellflower. We hadn’t worked with anything like it that summer. The flowers on the stem were so big I wanted to pour my iced coffee in it and sip out of it like a cup. The owner of the studio told us that at the last minute the bride wanted to use all locally grown flowers for her wedding, so instead of going to the large market in Boston, we picked the campanula from a small local farm. That locally grown campanula was that good stuff I had a knowing for.
As I made the decision to start Violet Daffodil House, I carry this basic intention with me. I want to do everything in the way that is homemade, thoughtfully sourced and always created with love. I want to sell good stuff.
This floral shop is not only a shop but a design house where floral arrangements are crafted and delivered with the love and caring that is intended by the sender. We want to bring community closer together and create lasting relationships under the roof of our little house.
So stop by and visit our home. Buy flowers for a lover, come take a class that could make you a friend for life. We’re so excited to meet you.
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