Fresh cut flowers, grown without pesticides or synthetics, on a little patch of land by the lake.
Everything here is grown on the same small piece of County land. Cut fresh, offered honestly, and available in a few different ways.
Ways to bring flowers home
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Fresh bouquets available at our self-serve flower stand. Walk by, choose what stands out to you, pay, take it home and enjoy. Flowers cut that morning. We accept e-transfer & cash.
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We’ll be at a few of our local markets this season. Worth watching for, the bunches we’ll bring to market will be something special. We’ll keep those interested updated from our newsletter and Instagram.
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We’ll be set up at a few favourite locations around the County throughout the season. Follow along on Instagram to find out where we'll be.
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For custom bouquet orders including delivery, please fill out our form.
Grown slowly , meant to be yours .
About our flowers
We grow what the season offers and we offer what we grow.
Chemical free. We don’t use pesticides, no synthetic inputs, nothing that shouldn’t be there. The stems in our bouquets are as clean as the County air it grows in. You can put these on your table without a second thought.
Grown by. hand, one season at a time. This is a micro-farm. Raised beds, gardens, just under an acre of land, and someone who dreams about these flowers every single day of the year.
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No pesticides, no synthetic inputs, nothing that shouldn't be there. What grows here is as clean as the County air it grows in. You can put these on your table without a second thought.
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I try to leave things better than I found them. That looks like growing organically, making thoughtful choices about what I bring into the garden and what I send back out. I genuinely care about the land I’m lucky enough to tend here in PEC.
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This is a micro-farm. Eight beds, three quarters of an acre, one person who dreams about these flowers every single day of the year.
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We grow what the season offers and we offer what we grow. No forcing, no importing. What’s in our bouquets belongs here, right now.
What we believe about flowers
How it all started & where we are now
Butternut Gardens started the way most good things do, quietly, and without a grand plan. Just a deep need to grow something beautiful and, eventually, to share it.
My mother is a beautiful tender to her own large gardens, so I was always surrounded by flowers, trees and plants since childhood. I think thats where my love of it stems. When I moved to the city, in moments of unbalance or stress, all I wanted was to be home wrapped in nature.
When I went through a very hard season I turned to gardening on my rooftop terrace in the city. It was a lifeline, a piece of my therapy, and an absolute joy. Flowers helped heal me.
When I finally put down roots of my own in Prince Edward County, the gardens felt like a natural place to start. What began as a small personal space, a way to slow down, get my hands dirty, and feel connected to this beautiful corner of Ontario. It gradually grew into something I hadn't quite planned for. The nostalgic quiet rhythm of it all, the smell of turned earth, the patience of waiting for things to bloom, that first explosion of colour and grace. The biggest garden I've ever had, all mine, with flowers planted with my mother in mind and her help in planting them. A quiet nod to the garden she kept and the hours I spent admiring it as a kiddo.
That first season, the garden overflowed. The fulfilment and pride in that ever-shifting beauty was so moving. I mostly enjoyed the flowers in their natural state, cutting the occasional bouquet for myself and marvelling at what the soil had given back. The second year, we added two new large garden spaces and a few raised beds for cut flowers and veggies.
I began sharing bouquets with neighbours and friends, and before long, people I hadn't even met were asking if they could take some home too. Sharing flowers and sending a little bit of that reverie feeling out into the world feels incredibly aligned. I knew Butternut Gardens had become something more than a hobby. A little stand followed. Now here we are. A brand new stand this year, markets throughout the summer, and a few special places for my bouquets to reach further into the County.
Everything grown here is completely free of pesticides and chemicals. It's tended by one pair of hands (and sometimes my toddler's) through every season, with a great deal of love, and a very old butternut tree casting dappled light over it all.
Every stem cut, every arrangement made, every bouquet that finds its way into a wonderful humans hands at the right moment all comes back to the same simple thing; flowers have a way of meeting people right where they are. My hope is that Butternut Gardens can do a little of that for you too. Bring some beauty into your everyday, and maybe reconnect you with that feeling of quiet reverie that I find myself basking in all season long.
