Frequently Asked Questions

I do! I’m a full-service sustainable wedding florist, and I love to create bridal bouquets, wearable flowers, table centerpieces, and floral installations of all kinds – arches, aisles, and imaginative decor – for wedding ceremonies and receptions.

Check out this blog post to walk through the experience of creating gorgeous, seasonal, eco-friendly wedding florals with me.

Mostly, I grow them myself, right in downtown Monterey on a tiny urban flower farm tucked into the old historic district — you can keep up with what’s in bloom right now by following Thicket on Instagram. I apply organic and regenerative farming practices, which means no chemicals, companion planting and hand-picking to control pests, on-site composting of green waste, natural fertilizers, efficient water use (including rainwater harvesting), and reusable or compostable floral supplies.

I also forage responsibly for abundant (and often invasive) greenery. For weddings and rare special requests, I am delighted to support other local farmers by buying their flowers (notably roses).

Too many to list! But some of my favorite traditional bouquet flowers include ranunculus, sweet peas, snapdragons, Iceland poppies, larkspur, scabiosa, dahlias, zinnias, and sunflowers.

I also grow a wide variety of California native wildflowers (like California poppies, lupine, Pacific coast iris, monkeyflower, helenium, and collomia) and foliage (like coffeeberry, sagebrush, Pacific ninebark, and California fuschia) for my designs. See this blog post for a list of flowers that bloom in different seasons.

Because every design is made to order with the most beautiful flowers in bloom at the time, there won’t be a picture of your exact arrangement to look at until I’ve finished creating it.

There are several different examples of actual designs sent out for each of the options in the Shop to help you visualize the sizes. I am always happy to send you a photo of the flowers I designed for your order, just let me know!

Absolutely! If you can’t tell a daffodil from a dahlia, I will design something gorgeous just for you with the most beautiful flowers in bloom today.

You can leave the choice entirely up to me, or you can tell me about the occasion and the person receiving the flowers—what’s their general aesthetic, do they like vibrant and colorful or sophisticated and muted colors, do they enjoy fragrance, is their cat likely to nibble on the arrangement, etc.

There is a flat fee of $20.00 for flower deliveries within my local area (Seaside and Monterey in city limits, Del Rey Oaks, Pacific Grove, Carmel-by-the-Sea, and Pebble Beach). Deliveries further afield by arrangement.