“To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to to forget ourselves.”

- *Mahatma Ghandi*

A Three-pronged Approach

I’m Eryn Shaughnessy, and at Frogsong Flowers, we cultivate three distinct areas of offerings to suit a variety of needs. My family-based team and I grow exquisite blooms, filler and foliage for:

My own use as a small-scale local florist offering artisan bouquets and arrangements for the home, for gifting, and for small events.
Other florists, event planners and DIY customers looking for mixed buckets and bunches within a specific design palette.
Food and forage to support pollinators and other wildlife in and around our growing space, and yours - there are countless ways we can be enjoying flowers, as well as helping to nurture a thriving eco-system, and we integrate as many as possible, in order to produce balance, quality and abundance. Watch for points in the season when we offer specialty plant starts (for local pick-up only) and get your garden going, too!

The gardens are situated on a rough 1/3-acre plot, which also functions as the family’s outdoor living space. Great care is taken to integrate cutting crops among perennials for all seasons, thus maintaining a stable environment for nurturing the life cycles of all manner of wildlife, from mammals to the microscopic underground, and everything in between. Creating balance in this way greatly reduces damaging pest issues and diseases safely and naturally.

A variety of micro-climates around the property are maximized for growing a diverse selection of bouquet ingredients. There is a Woodland area for shade-loving varieties; a sunny side Cottage Garden for roses, hollyhocks and all those “cottage-y” items; a dry and rocky Mediterranean border for drought-tolerant, heat-loving varieties; a long, sweeping back fence Meadow border designed to blur the line between the cultivated property and the open green space beyond. Here, perennial grasses and wilder items share space with great swathes of summer annuals that do well in less enriched conditions… And then there is a small, dedicated Cutting Patch for specific crops that benefit from a bit more structure and tending. Every ‘zone’ includes some form of shelter or small pond, and other habitat considerations, as an invitation to beneficial ‘residents’ who help to maintain the delicate balance throughout.