Botanical Brouhaha Podcast
Do you own a flower business or dream of starting one? Are you looking for practical floral design tips? Ever wonder how other florists run their businesses? Or maybe you’re a farmer florist building a flower farm and floral design business at the same time? You’ve landed in the right place!
At the BB Podcast, we serve floral designers, farmer florists, flower shop owners, and aspiring florists by diving into practical tips and insider information from real working florists, floral educators, flower growers, and floral industry vendors to help you find the tools you need to start, run, and grow your flower business.
We like to mix it up! Do you prefer hearing real-life stories or diving into specific flower business topics? Either way, we’ve got you covered.
Listen to our storytelling episodes featuring floral professionals sharing the details of starting and running their flower businesses. So many stories just waiting for you to dig in and learn from those who are doing what you want to do!
Browse our topic-specific interviews where you can expect everything from conversations on marketing, staffing, and floral software to pain points like finding your mojo or listening to your intuition in business.
Amy McGee, Botanical Brouhaha founder, brings years of relationship building with floral designers, farmer florists, and floral professionals to the table and invites you to pull up a chair for the conversations where you’ll learn and be inspired by the nitty gritty transparency of the questions she asks.
The BB Podcast is co-hosted by Natalie Gill, owner of Native Poppy.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 174
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Episode 52: Liza Lubell (Pear Tree Flowers & Garbage Goddess)
Today we’re visiting with Liza Lubell, owner of Peartree and Garbage Goddess based in the NYC area to discuss:
- how a gap-year job in a flower shop turned into a 14 year career (so far!) in the flora…
Episode 51: Lorna Stuart Trainor (A Room in Bloom)
Today we’re visiting with Lorna Stuart Trainor, owner of A Room in Bloom located in Athlone, Ireland to discuss:
- her winding career path from archaeology to floristry
- how she decided it was time to …
Episode 50: Rosebie Morton (The Real Flower Company)
Today we’re visiting with Rosbie Morton, founder/owner of The Real Flower Company located in Hampshire, England to discuss:
- how her perplexity over the lack of scented roses propelled her to find an…
Episode 49: Parie Donaldson (Cancer Awareness Month Ep. 2)
Today we’re visiting with Parie Donaldson, owner of Parie Designs (Amarillo, Texas), cancer survivor, and Details Flowers virtual designer to discuss:
- her transition from a retail shop to an events-…
Episode 48: Lindsay Diminick — Yellow Twist (Cancer Awareness Month Ep. 1)
Today we’re visiting with Lindsay Diminick, owner of Yellow Twist Floral Design in Portland, Maine and cancer survivor/emergency plan educator to discuss:
- her roundabout academic and career journey …
Episode 47: Teresa Sabankaya (Bonny Doon Garden Company)
Today we’re visiting with Teresa Sabankaya, author of The Posy Book and owner of Bonny Doon Garden Company in Bonny Doon, California to discuss:
- the 'garden fever' that led her to a career in the fl…
Episode 46: Natalie Gill (Native Poppy)
Today we’re visiting with Natalie Gill, owner of Native Poppy in San Diego & Solana Beach, California to discuss:
- how she quit her corporate job and jumped into floristry
- the role her staff has play…
Episode 45: Alicia Schwede (Flirty Fleurs & Bella Fiori)
Today we’re visiting with Alicia Schwede, owner of Bella Fiori and Flirty Fleurs near Seattle, Washington to discuss:
- her most popular blog posts on Flirty Fleurs
- how a move affected her business mo…
Episode 44: Zoe Woodward (Swan Cottage Flowers)
Today we’re visiting with Zoe Woodward, owner of Swan Cottage Flowers in Stoke Hammond, UK to discuss:
- how she turned her passion for gardening into a business
- the importance and benefit of a solid …
Episode 43: Michelle Hodges (Sprout in Fredericksburg, Texas)
Today we’re visiting with Michelle Hodges, owner of Sprout in Fredericksburg, Texas to discuss:
- her proposal process for wedding flowers
- the Sprout Mood Boards
- her transition into floral design from…
Episode 42: Sylvia Bustamante Gubbins (Madrid Flower School)
Today we’re visiting with Sylvia Bustamante Gubbins, founder of Madrid Flower School in Madrid, Spain to discuss:
- what led her to flowers while working on a Master's degree in Creative Writing at NY…
Bonus Episode: Francoise Weeks + Jenn Ederer (Live)
We were thrilled to have Francoise Weeks and Jenn Ederer as guests for the second live taping of the BB Podcast during the BB Garden Style Workshop on April 2, 2019. The interview was structured as a…
Episode 41: Nicole Rossi (Texture Florals)
Today we’re visiting with Nicole Rossi, owner of Texture Florals in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to discuss:
- her unconventional transition from architecture to floral design
- creating a CSA (Community …
Episode 40: Lucia Milan
Today we’re visiting Lucia Milan, owner of Lucia Milan Flower Studio in São Paulo, Brazil to discuss:
- her transition from fashion stylist to flower business owner
- how Chapel Designers membership imp…
Episode 39: Katie Noonan AIFD
Today we’re visiting Katie Noonan AIFD, owner of Noonan's Wine Country Designs in San Luis Obispo, California to discuss:
- how her parents and their business influenced her love of flowers
- how AIFD S…
Episode 38: Coral Shortt (Epanouir Flower Studio, Cape Town)
Today we’re visiting Coral Shortt, owner of Epanouir Flower Studio in Cape Town, South Africa to discuss:
- her introduction to flowers while growing up in a family of flower-loving gardeners
- the corr…
Episode 37: Jennifer Haf (Bloom Floral Design)
Today we’re visiting Jennifer Haf, owner of BLOOM in Charlevoix, Michigan to discuss:
- how her garden grown flowers paved the way to a thriving wedding + retail flower business
- how her business has g…
Episode 36: Brian Watson (Myrtie Blue)
Today we’re visiting Bryan Watson, co-owner of Myrtie Blue with his partner Gene in Fort Walton Beach, Florida to discuss:
- the story behind their business name
- the challenges of producing beach wedd…
Episode 35: Semia Dunne (Flowers by Semia & The Floral Reserve)
Today we’re visiting with Semia Dunne of Flowers by Semia and The Floral Reserve in Providence, Rhode Island to discuss:
- the long winding educational path that eventually led her back to her love of…
Episode 34: Ashley Fox
Today we’re visiting Ashley Fox, owner of Ashley Fox Designs in Woodbury, Minnesota to discuss:
- how she sets and meets goals
- knowing her boundaries and doing business with integrity
- how she edits th…