I am so excited to share this new passion I have with all of you. I've been an avid gardener for years but a confluence of events made me step back and refocus, more like double-down on the pursuit of a flower garden in concreteland (as I call the back area we have access too). 

I have suffered from major anxiety for the last twenty years and through mindfulness meditation was able to claw my way out of constant catastrophic thoughts. And I mean constant. Then the pandemic hit alongside a death that changed everything in my life. This is when I turned to my small vegetable garden. Because the restaurants were closed here in Los Angeles in the early pandemic days, the rats had no food. So they came to happily munch on my tomatoes and kale. That's when I turned to flowers.

Our small area became a refuge for us and I set about trying to learn everything I could about growing flowers. It has been a journey. I've bought all the books, listened to all the podcasts, bought a lot of courses. The thing I found was that most everyone talked about either flower farming and becoming a flower farmer, or creating a more general garden scheme. And NO ONE was talking about how to do it when you have very little space that could also be a sea of concrete. Not that my courses and workshops are geared to only that. A backyard or even frontyard will do. I got you.

I've always been told that my superpower is learning things well and fast. I have had more careers than most people because of this ability. I also collate information from many different sources and synthesize it to the exact need I have at the moment. And I needed to know how to grow a cutting flower garden. It was imperative.

It worked. I got all the knowledge and was able to spread dahlia bouquets to all my friends and neighbors. This was summer of 2021 and the happiness that filled their faces seeing the beautiful flowers was healing for both me and them. 

We are traumatized. All of us. We are barely coming out of a once in a hundred years event and the amount of anxiety I'm seeing everywhere is off the charts.

I know anxiety.

I've lived with it all my life. 

I want to do what I can to help relieve some of this stress. Creating a flower garden is one way of doing that. Trust me, this works. It really does. There are numerous studies supporting gardens bringing down our cortisol levels (a hormone our body produces when stressed) and more are coming out every month on the effects of nature on the human psyche. How calming it can be for us. Not to mention, the joy we can spread with the flowers we grow when we give them away. 

My goal is to take the difficulty out of growing your first flower garden. I've done all the leg work for you. I've spent countless hours on forums, facebook groups, instagram stories and bought some seriously obscure books to get the lowdown on how those flower farmers get those beautiful blooms. I then proceeded to grow my own beautiful, bountiful blooms. All the photos you see on my website and in my courses are from my garden. 

I want to spread flowers into the world and to heal us and our environment on the smallest scale. A tiny flower garden. It's on the one human level. One individual at a time. One bee coming to look for nectar on the flower you grew. A flower you cultivated into being. 

Come join me in spreading flowers to all the corners of this world. 

Dominika