Episode 766: Adding a flower farm and floral shop to a retail nursery center with Delisa Hiel of Gardenwerks in Helena, Montana

About this episode

Delisa Hiel discusses her experience adding a flower farm and floral shop to Gardenwerks, a retail nursery in Helena, Montana.

https://youtu.be/ng5wllVlQyU Back in 2018, we included Retail Garden Centers Adding Floral Design Services as one of our trends to watch in the annual Slow Flowers Floral Insights and Industry Forecast. I noted the early wave of retail nurseries and garden centers opening or reviving in-house floral shops with a distinctly local emphasis.As it turns out, that’s the year that Delisa Hiel joined Gardenwerks, an established retail nursery and landscape design business in Helena, Montana, founded by her father-in-law Michael Hiel. Gardenwerks is truly a family affair, with Delisa’s husband Peter Hiel serving as designer and foreman on the landscape side of the business. Delisa dreamed up, installed and now manages Gardenwerks flower farm, essentially creating a sister business that extends the nursery brand and provides a new suite of plants and design services to the community. I recently connected with Delisa to discuss her approach to flower farming and floral design, as she shares a fantastic model that brings together horticulture and floriculture with intentionality. Scenes from gardenwerks flower farm with Delisa Hiel (c) Kelly Van Dye Photography The flower farm at…

People in this episode

Host: Debra Prinzing

Guest: Delisa Hiel

Topics covered

• flower farming
• floral design
• retail nursery
• local business
• sustainable practices

Keywords

• flower farm
• floral shop
• Gardenwerks
• Helena Montana
• fresh cut flowers
• retail nursery
• landscape design

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Gardenwerks

Places: Helena, Montana

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