Seasonal, organically grown flowers — Abbotsford, B.C.

Flowers by the Fraser

Notes From The Field

Weddings

Seasonal notes, growing guides and honest pricing from our flower farm in Abbotsford — written by the people who plant, cut and arrange every stem.

Growing ranunculus — blooms and corms at our Abbotsford flower farm

Growing Ranunculus in BC: A Beginner’s Guide

Cool weather, sharp drainage and full sun. How to plant, water, harvest and store ranunculus on the BC coast — from a working Fraser Valley farm.
How to keep cut flowers fresh — freshly cut seasonal stems from our Abbotsford farm

How to Keep Cut Flowers Fresh for Longer

The first hour decides how long a bouquet lasts. A grower’s routine for trimming, water, temperature and vase life that actually works.
Wedding flower budget planning with seasonal bouquets from our Abbotsford flower farm

Wedding Flower Budget: What $500, $1,500 and $3,000 Buys

A wedding flower budget, broken into three realistic levels — what each one buys, what pushes it up, and where couples most often overspend.

What you will find here

What the flower journal is for

The flower journal is where we write down the things people ask us at the farm gate and at the market: what a wedding really costs, how long a bouquet lasts, and why a ranunculus corm goes into the ground claws down. None of it is written by an agency.

We grow on a quarter acre in Abbotsford and cut for weddings, markets, subscriptions and the roadside stand, so everything here comes out of that work. If a stem does not last, we say so. If a colour is not possible in June, we say that too — a flower journal is only useful if it is honest.

Start with the wedding flower budget if you are planning a day, the vase-life guide if you have just been handed a bouquet, or the growing guide if you want ranunculus corms in the ground this autumn. New entries go up through the season, usually when the field gives us something worth writing about.

Most of these notes start as conversations at the Saturday market, standing behind a table of whatever came out of the field that morning. If there is a question you want answered in the flower journal, send it over — the ones we get most often become the next entry.

Everything is grown without imports and cut the week you receive it, which is the thread running through every entry here. Find the farm here if you would rather see it in person, or read about flower subscriptions in Abbotsford and wedding flowers in Abbotsford if you would rather we did the growing.

The flower journal — our stall at the Abbotsford farmers market

Ready when you are

Want flowers from the field?

Tell us the date, the budget or just the mood and we will tell you honestly what the farm can do. Weddings, weekly bouquets and DIY buckets all start with a quick message.