Kindness is more important now than ever. Want to foster goodwill in your community and highlight the positive health effects of giving and receiving flowers? Join this year's 2026 Petal It Forward annual campaign. Over the past decade, thousands of floral industry members across all 50 states have gathered their teams on a single day in October to participate in Petal It Forward. This goodwill initiative, sponsored by the Society of American Florists (SAF), involves giving t

Last Wednesday we hosted 60 florists and designers for the CT Floral Group at our facility here in Milford. It was a perfect golden hour as we strolled through Shelland Flower Farm learning about all the varieties of flowers grown at the farm. The fields were bursting with colorful zinnias, celosia, gomphrena, Japanese anemone, hibiscus foliage, winter berries, hydrangea - and the star of the show - some 5,000 dahlia plants. As the sun was setting, Kate Russell, the creator

This summer, I stumbled upon a hidden treasure - the gardens of Promisek, located at Three Rivers Farm in Bridgewater, Connecticut. It's among the 16 gardens featured on the state's historic garden tour. "Promisek" roughly means "land that goes on forever." The property is situated at the meeting point of the Housatonic, Shepaug, and Pond Brook Rivers and was originally a part of Brookfield Center. The original 300-acre farm was purchased by Dr. Frederick Peterson, a renowned