Big Lake Alaska Flower Stand Zone 4
Welcome to Shalom Specialty Flowers Website
If supporting locally alaskan grown cut flowers is important to you, we are here to grow not just for the joy they bring to our community but also for promoting sustainable practices that benefit our environment. To enhance your experience, we are committed to providing you with an easy and efficient way to place orders from us in advance, ensuring that you always have access to our freshly picked blooms.
Winter – Seed Starting – Garden Planning – Seed Ordering – Forcing Bulbs
Spring – Seedling Care – Potting Up – Acclimating Plants – Transplanting – Sowing Perennial Seeds
Summer – Fertilizing Plants – Fighting Slugs – Watering – Cutting – Bouquet
Fall – New Garden Beds – Amending soil – Ordering Seeds – Winter Sowing
Its a lot of work.. But I love every moment I get to be out in the garden, arranging your special flower bouquet.
Creating art with a canvas of flowers
– Mirrer
After growing every flower from seed, fighting pests and generally caring for each plant on a daily basis for months. Mirrer the owner of Shalom Specialty Flowers arranges our bouquets.
The process might seem simple, but flower arranging takes practice and knowing what flowers are meant for “fillers”, what flowers are meant for “focals” all of the “airy” and “spike flowers” are different down to the varieties. And knowing the math matical balances to understand what makes a good looking flower bouquet have a balanced composition takes time, you can call flower arranging a “math matical art piece”.
A really cool thing about Shalom Specialty Flowers is that because we grow our own flowers, I don’t have to mark each stem up x3 to cover shipping costs. Making $75 bouquets more reasonably priced, think $30. But I do have to make sure that I am covering my time of labor spent growing and arranging each bouquet so I cannot afford free flowers all of the time.
At Shalom Specialty Flowers we believe that flowers should be sourced locally, wherever you may be in the world. That Includes Alaska. In a place that gets -60 (or more) in the winter, growing seasonal cut flowers is not something you think of first as a way to farm. We, also want to make sure we are preserving our land for years to come, not just sucking out all of its nutrients. We do this by cover cropping, tilling once and not again, mulching lots and using animal compost to enrich our soil. We do not use pesticides, lots of plastics (we need some for low tunnel green houses) and avoid using hybrid flower breeds so that we can save the seeds and the seed may be true to its parent.
We grow flowers here in one of the harshest environments in the world so that you can feel good about where you get your flowers from.
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This past month has been pretty busy, hence the late post! Here is some things Shalom Specialty Flowers has been up to.. a diary of sorts. We got two new garden beds established with some of the horse manure we got from a place in Houston. It is going to make a huge difference! Our…
Last night the weather changed dramatically, I felt the chilly air after the sun had been out all day. The chill seeped into my house and surrounded me in the morning. Its dreary. Its fall in Alaska. Summers here in Alaska are short lived, flowers are fleeting and the birds make a quick U-Turn. It…
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