DIY blooms are loose, or unarranged, flowers and foliage, provided to clients interested in designing their own arrangements or bouquets for their events, as gifts, or to keep in your own home! Buckets include 60-70 stems of complimentary focal and filler flowers, and foliage. Our DIY blooms are seasonally grown, meaning they include the best of what’s in season at the time of your event.

DIY blooms are generally recommended for people who gravitate towards the unique look of locally grown flowers, value the cost-savings gained with DIY flowers, and have the ability to put in the labor into creating your event florals. DIY flowers offer an incredible product for their value, and offers you the opportunity to be creative and make lasting memories with your flowers - they also require additional labor to put together, as compared to booking a traditional florist.

The aesthetic of our DIY buckets can be described as whimsical, garden-party, English cottage, eclectic, wild, romantic, French country, and rustic. A client once described our buckets to me as “Bridgerton meets the Kansas prairie.” Each flower is a conversation starter - and you are contributing to sustainable, environmentally friendly practices by buying locally grown Kansas flowers.

We offer both a growers choice (no color selection) and color-specific bucket options. For color specific orders, we work off a color palette rather than specific color names or inspiration pictures. Examples are descriptions such as white-peach-light pink or “as many bright colors as possible,” or “white, green, and pale pink.” We are sometimes limited in the colors we can provide at different times of the year (e.g., we do not typically have blue flowers in September).

We will work with you via email to gather your initial color palette, and share a picture collage proposal of our flowers meeting that palette, during the time of your event. One to two weeks before your event, we will email you a tentative harvest picture with the shades of color blooming at that time, for feedback and any editing needed. If you are wanting flowers in a specific shade of dusty coral rose, that matches a specific picture, we recommend working with a florist who can guarantee this level of detail.

The short answer is “no.” DIY blooms are seasonal, meaning certain flowers are available at limited times of the year, which is what makes them so memorable. Flowers and foliage are dependent upon what is blooming and Mother Nature's mood.

Regardless, we promise your flowers will be gorgeous and one of a kind. If you have a very specific flower request in mind, such as dahlias in May when they aren't in season, DIY flowers may not be sufficient to reach your design goals.

In order to keep our DIY bucket program costs affordable, we conduct all ordering and communication via email and do not offer phone or in-person consultations. This reduces our time labor, thus keeping our buckets affordable. We provide updates as needed via email, and a check in prior to your event to ensure everything runs smoothly.

This is a difficult question to answer - if placing a single stem + greenery in a tiny votive, then several. If making large pedestal-size arrangements, maybe one or two. Vase sizes vary drastically, as does personal style.

Generally, we say that a full bucket will make 3 small (e.g., attendant) bouquets, 4-6 well-filled Mason jar arrangements, or 15-20 small votives holding 2-4 stems each. We created this stem count estimator tool linked here to assist with estimating how many buckets you will need specifically for common wedding items.