Ellen's Flowers

We grow fresh cut flowers using organic practices in Colorado Springs, Colorado on our small urban farm. 

Most of the world's flowers are grown overseas with large amounts of chemicals and arrive at your door days after harvest after traveling thousands of miles. These flowers have a huge carbon footprint and often don't last very long once they arrive at your home. Instead, choose a chemical free, truly fresh and local option for your next bouquet of flowers.

Find our flowers & bouquets at Nightingale Bread, and Bread and Butter Market in Colorado Springs, CO.

It All Starts With Soil Microbe Health
Healthy soil has been show to lead to healthier plants. In cut flower production, this means bigger, more beautiful flowers. There are a couple of simple steps I take each season to insure that my soil stays healthy. I never use chemicals, I add carbon(soil microbe food) in the form of compost, keep the soil covered for as long as possible and minimize soil disturbance, in the form of tilling, as much as possible. All of these steps help to encourage the growth of a healthy soil microbe community. A healthy microbial community then helps to make nutrients bioavailable to my plants and retains more water in the soil.

Organic growing practices
You shouldn’t have to worry about getting a dose of pesticides when you sniff a beautiful bouquet. Those same chemicals wreak havoc on the soil microbiota limiting the amount of nutrients available, while also killing off beneficial insect species that keep my flowers healthy. I value my health, your health and the health of the environment. For those reasons and more, no chemicals are ever used in the production of my flowers.