Meet Our Growers
Philadelphia Floral Guild brings together the top Philadelphia flower farms. Collectively these growers have over 40 years of experience farming flowers professionally. Most have been designers too so they know exactly what it’s like to juggle weddings and retail along with running a small business. They’ve now shifted their focus to produce flowers for PFG’s wholesale customers. Consider them an expert extension of your own team!
Love ‘n Fresh Flowers
Jennie Love has owned and operated 5 acres of regenerative Philadelphia flower farms for 15 years. She’s considered by many to be the OG of the farmer-florist movement and she brings that design eye to her crop plans for PFG. Love ‘n Fresh Flowers specializes in unique foliages and perennial blooms that can’t be found at the traditional wholesaler. Love 'n Fresh Flowers is the host of
the PFG Hub.
Jennie is particularly fond of cats and turtles. Her favorite beverage is iced coffee on hot summer days or a warm London Fog on winter days.
Hickory Grove Gardens
Julia Bull and her team farm 5 acres of biodynamic farmland in Phoenixville PA. Julia, formerly a landscape designer and professional gardener, has been farming flowers for seven years and is one of PFG’s biggest producers. Hickory Grove Gardens specializes in volume… lots and lots of volume! Julia also has experience as a wedding florist and knows how to grow blooms to match those needs.
Julia is obsessively fond of dogs, especially Australian cattle dogs, which she volunteers to rescue. Her favorite beverage any time of year is Baba’s Bucha (kombucha).
Terra Luna
Elise Hanks launched Terra Luna in 2015, allowing her to combine her background in floral design, small scale farming, and herbalism to offer local flowers and handcrafted herbal products to her community in the West Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. Elise firmly believes in local agriculture and sustainable design as a path to everyday wellness.
Elise loves herbal tea and wishes she could have some farm pets but her farm is much too urban for furry friends.
Slabtown Petal Pickers
After four decades in horticulture and dairy farming, Stacey Harrell “retired” in 2019 to create beautiful gardens on former horse pastures. Not surprisingly, she got hooked on cut flowers and her retirement project blossomed into a two acre sustainable flower farm located in Elmer NJ along Slabtown Road. Stacey loves to grow bold colors and anything with unusual shapes and textures, including lots of herbs.
Stacey shares her flower farm with her beloved pony and donkey, both in their 30’s, along with dog Roxy and cat Theo.
Liberty Plants
Alyssa Van Alstine farms with her family in Trappe, PA, about 45 minutes north of Philly. Alyssa, originally an environmental scientist for an engineering firm and then a high school science teacher in Philadelphia, began growing and selling at farmers markets in 2016. Liberty Plants specializes in dahlias, strawflowers and heirloom mums and grows many other crops as well.
Alyssa’s farm is home to a dog, two cats, two guinea pigs and chickens. Her favorite beverage is coffee in the morning, gin and tonics at night.
Pinewood and Posies
Based in Whitehall, PA, Pinewood and Posies has been growing and selling flowers since 2007. Sylvia and David Glick grew their operation from a small garden to a ten acre farm over those years. This Amish family specializes in dahlias. They also grow zinnias, celosia, eucalyptus, dusty miller, statice, curly willow, pussy willow, winter berry, and more. Their farm has a heated greenhouse that will provide PFG with early spring ranunculus, anemones, and more!