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Emma Dickenson

Nov 15, 2022
3 min

Tanya & Dane | October Wedding

Oh, what a joy this October wedding was. Dahlias, native asters, and warm fall golden light...what more could I ask for? Tanya was a delight to work with. She was so open to ideas and happy to be using local and seasonal flowers. Turns out she used to work in ecosystem restoration. No wonder we got along so well! You fellow creatives already know that when a client says "I trust you completely," you kind of start to glow inside. Sometimes you can start to doubt your work

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Emma Dickenson

Jul 14, 2022
3 min

Maple Grove Estate Wedding

This was my first solo onsite wedding ever. It was amazing. I had been waiting on July 2nd for months: planning, emailing, daydreaming... In the week leading up to the wedding, I just wanted to start because the anticipation was killing me. When Wednesday finally came, I was ready for showtime. We picked up whimsical cosmos and white scabiosa from Little Mountain Flower Farm. We also snagged gorgeous white dahlias, fragrant mountain mint, and veronica from Sevier Blumen. Th

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Emma Dickenson

Mar 31, 2022
2 min

Spring 2022: Tulips

Way way back when in November, we planted tulips. Nothing too fancy. It was just a fun experiment. A last minute decision. It was a learning a experience and we kept our hopes fairly low. We didn't want to get our hopes too high since we ordered our bulbs late. The only tulips we had ever grown were in the yard and had been there since I was a kid. I remember walking up to the lilac bush in the rain to pick the red tulips and yellow daffodils that grew around the bottom.

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Emma Dickenson

May 3, 2021
2 min

The Flower Farm on Film

Every once in a while, I like to show some of my film! This is the first year I'm going to be able to document the flower season completely on film and I am quite excited. All these beautiful garden shots were all taken this Spring. Film forces me to think more about each shot I take. With my digital camera, I can take as many pictures as I need. Most of the time that means I take too many pictures. . .after all these years I'm still obsessed with flowers and it shows in t

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2020 in Flowers: a look back over the season

Emma Dickenson

Feb 28, 2021
2 min

2020 in Flowers: a look back over the season

So 2020 is over. 2020 was. a. year. To be honest, I've forgotten how the year started. I don't remember learning that we weren't going to have our traditional farmers' market in Market Square. I barely remember setting up the online shop here on the website. What a strange "new normal." But we can't forget the flower season, can we? It was too beautiful to be forgotten. In order to brighten up your January, we're doing a look back on our favorite moments from the flower fa

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Emma Dickenson

Nov 6, 2020
2 min

Foothills Parkway Styled Shoot

Oh y'all are in for a treat! Napping Cat Flower Farm + Wildfire Hearts Photography styled shoot! My dear friend Emily reached out to me the other day with a need for flowers. She had a styled shoot scheduled one morning on the Foothills Parkway and needed something to match the mood for her vision. Emily sent me a beautiful Pinterest board with the dress, makeup, flowers, and all the pretty details of what she planned for the shoot. But, the thing with Pinterest is that you o

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Emma Dickenson

Oct 29, 2020
2 min

Dahlias

Oh it's been such a pretty fall. I wrote about it in my last post...but I might have changed my favorite season to fall. The dahlia season has caught us a little by surprise. It's been beautiful! The blooms have been relatively insect bite free. Some of the dahlias are dinner plate size! Others are round and cute and compact. It's a beautiful variety. I keep thinking it's going to be the last harvest... and then more blooms keep coming. If only this could continue through

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Emma Dickenson

Oct 6, 2020
3 min

Farm Update: Fall 2020

It's fall in East Tennessee and what a stunning fall it is. When people say that fall is their favorite season, I can't agree with them, but only because fall seems so short to me. I'm partial to summer honestly. I absolutely love fall, but I always feel like right when we're settling in to the cooler and less humid days and chilly nights, suddenly it's winter. But right now I'm enjoying myself immensely and will enjoy the autumn weather while it lasts. My roommate and I ha

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Emma Dickenson

Jul 20, 2020
2 min

Farm Update: July

Oh to be in drought season... It's HOT out there in East Tennessee these days. Most days are about 95 degrees or above with a heat index of 100 degrees at least! Not to mention the humidity....! The mosquitoes (AKA prehistoric pterodactyl-sized death creatures) have been terrible in the garden. They like to hide in the field in the tall plants and grasses and attack you while you're harvesting flowers. They can also get you through your clothes. Absolutely horrifying. They'

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Emma Dickenson

Jun 14, 2020
2 min

Farm Update: June 2020

We're finally transitioning out of spring and into summer flowers! Not that I don't love spring flowers. I LOVE spring flowers. Ranunculus, larkspur, stock... all the cool weather flowers that are such a relief to see after a long winter. But now the HOT weather flowers are coming in: sunflowers, scabiosa, yarrow, statice, and so many more. I'm stoked. So for you curious flower lovers, I'm gonna take you through what's in the garden now! First up, Sunflowers! Sunflowers are

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Emma Dickenson

May 26, 2020
2 min

The Sweet Pea Forest

Although every year is different, this year has been extremely unique. It seems like several of our flower crops have been much bigger and healthier than previous seasons. It's really neat to see! One of the crops doing unusually well are the sweet peas! We made sure to build sturdy structures so that the sweet peas had plenty to climb. We've been doing our best to keep up with harvesting in order to encourage more blooms. We had a difficult start to the sweet pea season be

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Emma Dickenson

May 1, 2020
2 min

Farm Update: Spring 2020

What a strange Spring it has been so far. Who could have expected the world to change this much in a matter of months? So much uncertainty, fear, and ups and downs. It's been a rollercoaster ride for sure. I never dreamed that I wouldn't return to school after Spring break. The transition to online classes was surreal. It brought many challenges of having to try and stay organized while receiving what seemed like 100 email updates each day from professors who were scrambl

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Emma Dickenson

Mar 31, 2020
1 min

Ranunculus Time in Tennessee!

We've waited so long for this. And now the time is finally HERE!! If you don't know, these beauties are called ranunculus. a.k.a. little rainbow easter egg unicorns of happiness. I don't really call them that but they are pretty much magical. Most people don't have the opportunity to see what we see in the flower field. The way they look altogether in the field, the way the sunlight comes through and illuminates them in the evenings, and watching them transform from a tight s

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Emma Dickenson

Mar 29, 2020
1 min

Embracing Seasonality: pt 2

I enjoyed roaming the yard while the sun was setting. I felt like a little kid again. I could smell the crabapple tree in our front yard and realized it took me right back to the days I used to climb it. My dad used to climb the tree with me. My cats would even join in if you can believe it; Whisper, Casey, and Hazel all liked to participate in whatever I was doing in the yard. I used to pick tulips from our front yard, too. Even before we had our flower farm, I still had

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Emma Dickenson

Mar 29, 2020
2 min

First Buds of the Season

This has been a looong winter. I think a lot of you flower-lovers will agree with that. It's been wet, gloomy, cloudy, rainy, soggy..... But now, what you've all been waiting for..... The First Real Buds of the Season are here!! Of course, I jumped on the opportunity to photograph any signs of life in the field. These pictures were taken the week of March 8th. I decided to make a bouquet of all the pretty things blooming in the yard that week. Daffodils, peach tree blossoms,

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Emma Dickenson

Sep 21, 2019
1 min

Dahlias...

Ah. Dahlias. What do you think of when you think of them? Cool weather? Leaves starting to turn and fall? It hasn't exactly been easy to grow them this season with some extremely hot temperatures and lack of rainfall... thanks Tennessee. However, with Mom's diligent watering we have gotten some pretty GORGEOUS blooms. The warm corals are my absolute favorite... They remind me of the ranunculus crop in the Spring. It's kind of a way to come full circle; ranunculus as our fir

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Lisianthus: The elegant beauty of late summer

Emma Dickenson

Sep 2, 2019
1 min

Lisianthus: The elegant beauty of late summer

It's now September and our official flower-selling season is over. When we walk through the garden it has a late summer feel, the evening light is a bit different than high summer, and the fall wildflowers pop-up around the edges of the flower rows. Now all we have are memories of the July and August humidity and photographs to see that the magic really did happen! Here's a look back at one of our favorite crops: Lisianthus. Lisianthus have an amazing vase life. People at the

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Emma Dickenson

Apr 16, 2019
4 min

The Garden in Film

Photography has been a hobby of mine for a couple years now. I remember walking around the garden when I was in high school and snapping shots of flowers I thought were cool with my phone. Later in high school, my senior year I think, I took a photography class. I remember making my own pin hole camera and going outside and taking pictures in the parking lot. We got bonus points if we managed to capture clouds (thanks Ms. Cedeño). I feel like we could only take one picture

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Emma Dickenson

Apr 14, 2019
2 min

Ranunculus Pop-up at Wild Love

We had our first pop-up of the season at Wild Love Bakehouse Saturday morning! We had almost perfect weather while harvesting the ranunculus from the field... you can go check out my previous blog post if you want to go check out some amazing pictures of the ranunculus harvest! After making bundles of ranunculus, we loaded up the van. Thanks to the cloudy skies and cool weather, they held their tight little buds! Although Saturday started out rainy, the ranunculus were the p

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Emma Dickenson

Apr 13, 2019
2 min

The Ranunculus Harvest

I feel like the first 12 days of April have been an absolute BLUR. Suddenly, I mean really suddenly, everything is turning green. And I'm so excited. This also means that the ranunculus are HERE so prepare yourselves for beautiful photo overload on the blog and instagram! I mean, just look at these guys... Oh, but hang on. I know they're stunning in the field and just by themselves, but the real magic happens when the harvest begins. I honestly cannot decide what I like bett

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