JOHNNY'S SELECTED SEEDS
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Who knows how color combinations, botanical preferences, or bouquet personalities rise to the top of our current floral "favorites" ...

Flower farmer and Slow Flowers advocate Joan Ewer Thorndike wearing a sun hat on the steps of a flower truck holding bunches of bi-colored dogwood foliage, physostegia and phlox freshly harvested from the fields of Le Mera Gardens.  Le Mera Gardens logo and tagline on a sticker adhered to the back wall of the flower truck.
MAIL TRIBUNE
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Faintly fragrant and faded within a few days, many commercial flower bouquets betray the rigors of transport between grower, ...

OREGON HEALTHY LIVING
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From ageratums to zinnias, organic flowers grow in abundance in Southern Oregon.

When you're shopping for fresh flowers, ...

Photo by David Perry co-author of  The 50 Mile Bouquet of flower farmer Joan Thorndike in orange shirt and sunhat pointing at peony plants in bud on Le Mera Gardens’ flower field.  Plastic covered hoophouse in the background.
50 MILE BOUQUET
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Organic flower farmer, Joan Thorndike is a smart, generous, soft-spoken woman who has been farming flowers organically since ...

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