Bread & Butter Blooms (2025)

08/02/2025

✨if you’ve ever admired a bed bursting with tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths while your garden is still lifeless, it didn’t happen by chance—someone planted the vision (and the bulbs) months before.

A well-planned spring garden is pure magic—bursting with blooms just when everyone is craving color the most.

Swipe through to see when different bulbs bloom and start dreaming up your own show-stopping display for next year. (And don’t worry, we’ll have the bulbs ready for you this fall! 😉)

Which of these is a must-have in your garden? 🌿

31/01/2025

🌹☕️ We’re back with our Valentine’s Day pop-up at Bright Jenny Coffee!

Join us on February 14 for a chance to grab your last-minute blooms, customize a bouquet from the bloom bar, or pick up a coffee + flowers bundle. It’s the easiest (and most fun) way to show love this Valentine’s Day.

See you there!
🕒 10-4pm
📍 984 Laurel Ave

Grab n go bouquets will be available from BOTH bright Jenny locations

🌹 pre-order online to reserve a coffee + flowers bundle

Will we see you there?

27/01/2025

✨this weekend we started harvesting the first of our winter grown tulips

We are very proud of this accomplishment, bringing you fresh, locally grown flowers earlier (by 12 weeks!) than ever before.

While it’s looking as though we will be able to offer small bunches in the coming week, the bulk of our tulips are available for Paper Hearts Club members. Delivery of this subscription begins Valentine’s day 💌

Comment ‘Valentine’ below for more information or send this to whoever needs a hint 😉

25/01/2025

🌷 Valentine’s Day is almost here and this year we’re pulling out all the stops to make it extra special.

From premium garden roses to our brand new tulip subscription, we’ve got something for everyone. Plus, we’re teaming up with Bright Jenny Coffee for a COFFEE + FLOWERS bundle that’s perfect for gifting. Local love never looked this good.

Pre-orders are now open - don’t wait!

20/01/2025

🌼 We’re starting seeds this week for some of our must-have varieties—flowers that will bloom just in time for those tricky late spring/early summer weeks, aka the June gap.

These blooms are perfect for creating whimsical, mixed bouquets with that classic cottage garden charm. Plus, they’ll help keep your garden looking full when many spring flowers are fading.

Swipe through to see the 8 varieties we’re planting now and let us know in the comments which of these blooms you’re adding to your garden this year!

18/01/2025

♥️ This Valentine’s Day, we’re doing something extraordinary: offering locally grown tulips in the heart of winter. While our region’s fields are resting, we’ve nurtured these vibrant blooms to bring you a beautiful, sustainable option during a time of year when flowers are often imported from South America.

For us, this isn’t just about flowers—it’s about creating change. The global floral industry often relies on exploitative practices, with workers being underpaid and exposed to harmful chemicals, sometimes without proper safety equipment. These conditions devastate entire communities, leaving families with lasting challenges like birth defects, increased rates of cancer and little access to the healthcare they desperately need.

By choosing our winter-grown tulips, you’re not just celebrating love—you’re standing for a better way. You’re supporting local, ethical farming practices and helping us create a flower industry rooted in care for people and the planet.

🌷Our winter-grown tulip subscription is now available for purchase online! Treat yourself or someone you love to weekly bundles of locally grown beauty, and join us in supporting sustainable, ethical floral practices.

16/01/2025

January might not have flowers blooming yet, but there’s still plenty to keep us busy:

🌸Dividing and counting what feels like a million dahlia tubers

🌸Sowing our earliest annuals and whispering, ‘You’ve got this.’

🌸 Prepping garden beds while pretending spring is right around the corner

What’s on your January to-do list? Planning, planting, or just waiting for warmer days (we get it)?

10/01/2025

🗓️ Part Two: Plan Your Seed Starting Calendar
 Now that your seeds are sorted by cool and warm season crops, it’s time to figure out when to start them. Here’s how:

1️⃣ Find Your Last Frost Date Your last frost date is key to determining when to start your seeds. You can look it up online based on your location.

2️⃣ Warm-Season Crops For warm-season varieties (like zinnias and cosmos), the last frost date is your plant-out date—when it’s safe to move them outdoors. Count backward to find your seed-starting windows:
* 4–6 weeks before last frost
* 8–10 weeks before last frost
Mark these dates on your calendar as your seed-starting times!

3️⃣ Cool-Season Crops Cool-season crops (like snapdragons and sweet peas) need to be planted out before last frost to get the cold start they thrive on. Here’s the trick:
* Count 4 weeks before last frost date—this is your plant-out date for cool-season crops.
* From this plant-out date, count backward to find your seed-starting windows:
* 4–6 weeks before plant-out
* 8–10 weeks before plant-out

4️⃣ Finish Sorting Your Seeds Now that you’ve figured out when to start each variety, organize your seed packets into sections based on their assigned seed starting week. You’ll see that 4-6 week cool season varieties will be started 8-10 weeks before last frost.

🌟 Pro Tip: Seed packets will often say ‘before planting out’ or ‘before last frost.’

They mean different things and should be read as ‘before planting out’ only as seed-starting dates for cool-season crops won’t be based on the last frost date alone and if followed, could result in poor performing plants.

The seed-starting dates for your 4–6 week cool-season crops will fall on the same calendar dates as your 8–10 week warm-season crops. This is because cool-season crops are planted earlier, so their timeline overlaps with the earlier stages of warm-season planting. Don’t worry—this is completely normal. Seeing it on the calendar will help visualize it and keep your planting organized!

You’re all set! This system makes it easy to grab the right seeds at the right time ensuring you never miss a seed starting window—and it works seamlessly year after year!

22/12/2024

It’s true.

21/12/2024

🌒Happy Winter Solstice

Today marks the turning point of the return to longer days as day light begins to increase once again

20/12/2024

🌱Sorting your stash isn’t just about tidiness—it’s about setting yourself up for a successful and stress-free growing season!

With this sorting method you’ll:
✨ Stay on schedule with timely planting.
✨ Match seeds to their ideal conditions (cool vs. warm season).
✨ Build confidence and avoid overwhelm.

Let’s dive into our 3-step sorting method and get prepped for spring!

1️⃣ Choose Your Storage Method

Index Card Box: Great for organizing by category.
Binder with Sleeves: Easy to flip through and reference.
Small Bins: Perfect for loose or bulk seeds.

2️⃣ Sort Your Seeds By Planting Season:
Cool-season vs. warm-season flowers. This will dictate when you plant your seeds outside

🌸 Cool Season: sweet peas, stock, snapdragons, calendula, nigella, dianthus, viola, larkspur, rudbeckia, feverfew, poppies, orlaya

☀️ Warm Season: zinnias, amaranth, celosia, cosmos, marigold, gomphrena, asters, sunflowers

Need help with your variety? Drop it in the comments below!

3️⃣ Sort Each Pile By Planting Date:
Check the back of your packets for timing! You’ll often see ranges like:

10–12 weeks before last frost
8–10 weeks
4–6 weeks

These time frames indicate how many weeks before planting out you need to start the seeds.

Now you’ve got two stacks of seed packets organized by season and start date! You’re ready to build your seeding calendar!

Save this post to reference later and stay tuned for Part 2: Building Your Planting Calendar! Got questions? Let’s chat in the comments!

10/12/2024

Planning your spring garden? 🌱
 Winter is the perfect time to map out your planting dreams—and this year, planning ahead is more important than ever with the ongoing postal strike.

To help you get started, here are 5 amazing Canadian seed sources we love:

Save this post so you’re ready when it’s time to shop for seeds!

22/11/2024

🌸 It’s Pink Friday! 🌸

We know our customers by name, they aren’t just a profit number to us. We see them every week at the market. And get excited when we see an order from one of our regulars light up our inbox. It means the world to us.

You are the heart and soul of small businesses.

🌸Shop small, shop early, and bloom with us this Pink Friday!

🛍️Shop our 2025 bouquet subscriptions from the link in our bio

21/11/2024

🌼 Imagine a life filled with flowers, beauty, and a little mystery. Welcome to the cult

The flower cult is about one thing: sharing the love of flowers

We promise: no robes or secret handshakes. Just amazing flowers

Enrolment opens Friday, November 22

07/11/2024

Like water off a duck’s back… right?

My “toxic” trait? Believing in humanity. I’m no political expert; my heart could never handle that—it’s just not in my nature. I’m too emotional for it, and I say that with pride. Being this way means I approach life with love, acceptance, and a belief in meeting people where they are, even if their journey looks different from mine.

Through my work with flowers, I’ve come to see that connecting with people, encouraging one another, and holding space for each other’s unique realities yields a beautiful kind of growth—one that has little to do with flowers and everything to do with community.

If you’re still here, thank you. Your presence and support mean more to me than you know. ♥️ And for those of you who reached out with kind messages, thank you for reaffirming my faith in this community. You showed me that my message resonated, even if the initial silence was deafening.

💬 I’d love to hear what inspires you to choose businesses that resonate with your heart. Feel free to share in the comments—I’m excited to hear your thoughts and build this community with you.

If you believe in what we’re doing here—if you’re a flower lover or someone who values women-owned businesses—please share this post. Let’s build this community back up, one flower loving friend at a time. 🌸 Thank you for being here and for supporting this little dream of mine!

13/10/2024

✨May you…

Laugh about stuffing things up a big chickens butt, have a dance party in your kitchen, and smear butter all over your phone today.

Happy Thanksgiving

07/10/2024

✨You can now pre-order a bouquet for Thanksgiving!

This is our final week for fresh flowers and usually one of our busiest!

Bouquets will feature our homegrown lisianthus, dahlias, amaranth and hydrangeas from Casa Verde in a rich warm colour palette of burgundy, copper and peach tones.

Pre-ordering will guarantee a bouquet is set aside for you and can be done now through our website! Visit the link in our bio.

For those of you who prefer to shop the market, The Flower Truck will be set up this Saturday from 8-1pm with loads of beautiful options to choose from. Hope to see you there!

19/09/2024

✨We are down to our final THREE markets of the season!

📅 SEPTEMBER 21
📅 SEPTEMBER 28
📅 OCTOBER 12

Find The Flower Truck to shop your favourite local blooms on SATURDAYS from 8-1pm

Join us in these final weeks! We’ve got so many blooms coming from the field that are looking for a good home.

While The Flower Truck will no longer be popping up at the market after October 12, orders for pick up or delivery will remain open through our website until frost!

Bread & Butter Blooms