🌿 Bloom & Branch: A Year of Roots, Resilience, and Rediscovery

Bloom & Branch didn’t begin with seeds—it began with a lonely broken heart, a shovel, and an overgrown bamboo patch that needed taming. I wasn’t trying to build a business then. I was trying to build myself. I was searching for quiet, peace, purpose, healing, something that made me feel accomplished again.

What I found was dirt.
And dirt, surprisingly, answered back.

I started with houseplants—tiny pockets of green that felt safe, manageable, alive. In the winter they were my company, my therapy, my distraction from cold days and heavy thoughts. I started bringing home the sad, forgotten plants- the clearance-rack orphans everyone had doomed and labeled no good.  I nursed them back reviving them leaf by leaf, but what I didn't realize was they were reviving me too. Don't get me wrong- there were a few I killed outright, or maybe just assisted in their plant-suicide- and even though it stung, every loss taught me something. I took each lesson and carried it to the next attempt.

Before long, I started to feel grounded again, my roots started to settle in. My home became so full of plants my daughter swore she lived in a tropical rainforest- dramatic, I know. My friends and family thought I might have been a little bit crazy; I'm pretty sure a few of them were quietly plotting to have me committed. 

But then Spring came around and suddenly I had a whole new place to grow. Before long I was harvesting cut flowers, and making daily trips to the post office with armfuls of packages- orders stacked up for shipping. Business was Bloomin'! And that's when people, including my own family and friends started to look at me a little differently...like, "Hey, she just might actually be able to do this."  

And that’s honestly how Bloom & Branch was born.
Not from a business plan—
but from a heartbeat.

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🌱 Growing Fast Because the Vision Was Bigger Than I Realized

Bloom & Branch didn’t grow slowly or quietly.
It grew fast because I grew fast. Because healing sometimes rushes in once you give it a place to land.

In our very first year, this tiny idea exploded into:

• houseplants

• cut flowers

• native plants

• foraged botanicals

• saplings

• propagation boxes

• sustainable soil mixes

• garden services

• educational outreach

• a developing community garden vision

Not because I intended to have all of that right away, but because each branch of the business formed naturally, like a plant doing what it was always meant to do once it finally had space.

Bloom and Branch isn’t just a shop, a nursery, or a farm. It’s a living ecosystem—one that changes with the seasons.
Houseplants in winter.
Nature in spring.
Gardens in summer.
Harvests, seeds, and roots in fall.

Bloom & Branch moves in the same rhythm as the land around us.

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🌿 What We Stand For

Bloom & Branch is here to remind people:

• There’s no such thing as a green thumb.
  Only practice, patience, and a willingness to learn. I didn’t come into this knowing everything—I’ve killed more plants than I can count. But plants forgive quickly. They grow again. And so do we.

• Weeds aren’t always weeds.
  Weeds isn't in our vocabulary, around here, they're "unrequested volunteers." Maybe mother nature sent them to fix a problem we didn't know of, maybe a bird pooped them out, either way they are part of the crew. 

• The land can work with us.
  Sustainable gardening, composting, native plants, foraging, and soil-building aren’t complicated—they’re ancient, intuitive practices that make everything easier in the long run.

• Community is the heart of growing.
  I want to help restore the world I grew up in—the one where people shared garden harvests, swapped seeds, gifted cuttings, and didn’t hesitate to knock on a neighbor’s door.

Bloom & Branch is about helping people reconnect with the earth, with each other, and with the quiet parts of themselves that get drowned out in modern life.

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🌼 A Vision That Reaches Beyond This Garden

My long-term dream is to establish a community garden where people can learn, grow, heal, and reconnect. A place supported by volunteers and fueled by shared abundance. A place where kids can dig in the dirt, where elders can pass down knowledge, and where anyone—not just “gardeners”—can feel welcome.

If Bloom & Branch has a personality, it’s this:

Hopeful. Rooted. Practical. Wild. Honest.
Eager to help. Eager to teach. Eager to grow.

We’re here to offer the tools, plants, knowledge, and encouragement that helped me when I needed it most. Whether it’s a houseplant, a seedling, a native plant, a wild-foraged botanical, or just inspiration to try something new—our goal is to help you grow something beautiful, inside and out.

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🌱 If You’re Here, You’re Part of Our Story Now

Bloom & Branch grew out of the dirt, and out of a heart that needed healing.
Now it grows for the community, for the pollinators, for the planet, and for the people who want to rediscover what nature can offer.

Thank you for being here.
Thank you for growing with me.
Welcome to Bloom & Branch.

 

If our story planted a seed in you, we’d love for you to join the Bloom & Branch email list—where we share seasonal tips, wild finds, upcoming events, and little pieces of inspiration from the garden.