The AG Blog
Here on the AG Blog you will find stories about our work along with random & wandering musings about flowers, gardens, weddings, parties, sustainable floristry, small business ownership, and, well,… pretty much anything! Wander from one blog post to the next and you’ll see so many beautiful flowers! Let us know if there is something you’d like to hear about and we will add it to our To-Do List!
Growing Calatheas-A Complete Guide
Those Colorful Patterned Leaves! With bold, colorful, and highly patterned leaves, calatheas are some of the most beautiful houseplants around. There are so many different varieties and we are always on the lookout for them for our shop. They’re also part of the...
Planning For Your Wedding Flowers
Embarking on planning your wedding may seem overwhelming! You are excited about planning your wedding and you have lots of ideas and inspiration photos, not to mention visions in your head that you’ve imaged for years. Some couples tackle the planning process eagerly...
Making Hearts Bloom on Valentine’s Day
It's one of our specialties - making hearts bloom on Valentine's Day! There are so many ways to show your love on Valentine's Day, so we take it quite seriously here at Andrew's Garden. We start with the most beautiful blooms at our fingertips. Since we are telling...
Winter Dance & Turnabout Flowers
Do you feel like time is flying by? Here we are at the end of January and winter dances are upon us already. Between now and Valentine's Day, lots of area high schools are hosting winter dances (Heart Hop, Winter Formals, Turnabout, Sadie Hawkins). Whatever you call...
Flower Care Tips
I want my flowers to last forever! We know you love your flowers from Andrew’s Garden and want them to last forever. We can’t manage the "forever" part, but we can share some flower care tips to help them last as long as possible! Something we often don’t think about,...
Hand-Tied Bouquets
What's Up With Our Bouquets? You’ve been a regular customer of ours for a while, so you probably already know that we like to keep changing things up at Andrew’s Garden. Whether its the furniture or the flowers, we are always doing something new. We never want to get...
Bring Your Plants Indoors
It's Time To Bring Those Plants Indoors! If you live in the Midwest, you’re not surrounded by an especially warm climate and the first freeze of the year can sneak up on you faster than you think. Every Autumn there’s a routine you have to follow: bringing your...
Tropical Chic Modern
Tropical, Chic & Modern - those were some of the ways that Kaycee & Dave described their dream wedding. They wanted it to feel full and lush with an elegant palette of black, white, & tropical greenery. Mid-May in Chicago doesn't usually cue a tropical...
Homecoming Flowers-AG Style
(They say it's important to know your audience. If you are a student , I say THANK YOU on behalf of your parents! We all appreciate that you are planning ahead and taking care of this on your own! I'm sorry for addressing this article to your parents instead but,...
Modern Vineyard Vibes
Kevin & Jon’s modern, stylish wedding included a wine bar vibe and a pre-reception fashion change! Two sets of couture boutonnieres, please!
Trending Colorful and Romantic
All the summer garden-party feels – that was Jess & Doug’s early June wedding at the Chicago Golf Club! The reception was held under a spectacular sailcloth tent with colorful but light & airy flowers including wisps of greenery above the checkerboard dance floor.
Sophisticated and Poetic
Kate & Joseph’s beautiful July wedding possessed a sophisticated & classic elegance reminiscent of movie stars and Gatsby. Our goal was to create a clean & modern, yet traditional, feel with simple, elegant blooms in white with touches of champagne. Some of Kate’s favorite flowers are white garden roses and ranunculus, so her bouquet was filled with fragrant roses, garden roses, ranunculus, freesia & stock.
