After a year off, Farmacy Gardens in South-Dummer is back and blooming to serve all your gardening and plant needs.
A second-generation florist, owner Emily Del Mastro has harboured a love for flowers, plants, and gardening since she was young. So, when choosing to change career paths after studying in pharmaceuticals, it was a natural choice to study horticulture as a greenhouse technician. When the pandemic hit in 2020, she decided to launch Farmacy Gardens and turn her five-acre farm into a green-thumb oasis.
While initially the shop focused on medicinal plants like feverfew (which Del Mastro continues to sell today), the offerings found at Farmacy Gardens have continued to expand over the years. Alongside common herbs and vegetable plants, this year Farmacy Gardens has grown its list of native plants to include red maple and sugar maple trees. Farmacy Garden also offers a selection of fruit trees, including indoor trees like lemon, fig, and pomegranate.
Rounding out the stock this year is a wider selection of flowering plants in response to customer requests. A variety of hostas, coneflowers, sedums, and sunflowers are just a few of the many available blooms.
While the farm offers gardens and greenspace for customers to stroll through to see some of the plants coming to life, the shop in itself is worth the visit, as it is an updated cabin that is more than 100 years old.
Farmacy Gardens also offers cut flower bouquets through Del Mastro’s online flower shop, Country Florist Designs. Open year-round, Country Florist Designs provides flowers for weddings and other events and offers same-day delivery as well as bouquet subscription boxes.
With a mission to be environmentally conscious, both Farmacy Gardens and Country Florist Designs do not use any chemicals or sprays, and all flowers are locally sourced or cut fresh from the farm’s gardens.
“With modern technology and greenhouses, people are very aware that we can grow all kinds of things here now,” says Del Mastro. “Businesses are really starting to grow locally and customers like supporting local, so it’s really important to provide that.”
Located at 172 5th Line Road in South-Dummer, Farmacy Gardens is open Thursdays through Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. As a new website is in the works, appointments outside of operational hours can be accommodated by direct messaging Farmacy Gardens on Facebook and Instagram.
For flower orders, visit www.countryfloristdesigns.com. You can also follow Country Florist Designs on Facebook and Instagram.
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