ONE WOMAN. ONE FIELD.
HUNDREDS OF BLOOMS

I’m Melanie—the Accidental Peonist. When you order our flowers, you’re dealing with me: the owner, grower, and the one who cuts, gathers, and prepares every stem that leaves our field.

What began as a long career in education has blossomed into a very unexpected journey in peony farming.

In 2022, my daughter sent me an Instagram reel of someone with 2,000 peony plants. I thought, “Pssh, I can do that!” What started as 50 plants quickly grew to 100, then 200. Two hundred became 276 (don’t ask)… then 300, and finally 500. Today, I grow more than 25 varieties of peonies in a single field in New York’s Hudson Valley, delivering directly to customers in the Germantown area and New York City.

I never set out to be a flower farmer, but I’ve come to appreciate the physical labor of growing things. I enjoy being out in the field—digging, weeding, cutting back—an audiobook on, my thoughts wandering, and muddy hands that conveniently keep me from answering emails or texts. Planting is an act of faith: trusting that something beautiful and fragile will return year after year. And when I plant something that lives for 50 to 80 years, I’m creating a living legacy that will outlast me.