Hello there, I’m Mia, the designer + flower grower behind the blooms at Fleur & Gather.
Flowers have always been a part of my story.
I grew up alongside a family flower greenhouse business, where caring for flower seedlings and gardens was my very first work. Our home was surrounded by forest and meadows, and foraging for the first woodland wildflowers is one of my earliest memories.
While my path through life has been a meandering one, the joy of growing, gathering, and creating with florals is something I’ve carried with me. I have a background in conservation ecology and anthropology, with graduate work in sustainable development initiatives based on foraged wild flora. My life and work have taken me all over the world, with long stretches in California, the Pacific Northwest, the UK, the far North, and South America.
A Flower-filled Life
Daydreams of a flower-filled life took root when our wee family came to live on a couple of seaside acres in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia. As I began turning much of the space around us into flower gardens, a part of my path came full-circle. Stepping back into flowers felt like coming home.
Outside of the gardening season, I work as a consultant and as a mama to a little flower girl. Raising a child in a garden holds an echo of my own story, and I love watching her awareness of flora and fauna, cycles and seasons, unfold.
Fleur & Gather
Fleur & Gather began as a garden-based floral design studio in 2021. “Fleur” is a tip of my sunhat to my late, French-speaking Dad, whose flower business I was raised alongside. The tiny miracle of a seed, and the wonder of a verdant greenhouse in the midst of a snowy Canadian spring, hung a star in my heart at an early age.
‘Gather’ speaks to many things — from the quiet hours spent harvesting flowers to the process of gathering together elements of texture, scent, movement and wildness. Flowers are also present whenever we gather to commemorate our love, mark our milestones, and mourn our losses. A metaphor for the ephemeral beauty of our most storied times.
