Celebrate Beauty in Every Season

Abundant and ever-changing...our favorite bloom is what's growing on our Pennsylvania farm each day. Whether you need a lush bouquet from your favorite local shop or a party bucket overflowing with flowers and greens, join us in being inspired by the beauty of every season.

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About Us

Michelle Elston started Roots in 2007 as a tiny farm just outside of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. With a commitment to growing sustainably, sharing beauty, and working with the land and seasons, the goal was a simple one: have meaningful and viable horticultural work while raising her young children.

Growing beyond her wildest dreams, Roots now includes a team of more than 15 people who farm alongside Michelle on 10 beautiful acres of rolling, rocky land. With fields and processes geared toward production, we grow flowers for over 27,000 bouquets and 450 bulk buckets every year. Even though Roots flowers can now be found at shops and events across Pennsylvania, our commitment to sustainability, beauty and seasonality remains.

Find Our Flowers

Buy Roots at your favorite local shop, through pre-ordered buckets, or at events held on and off the farm. We select content for our buckets and bouquets based on what's looking best the day of harvest...we love seeing what's new and lovely each week of our growing season. More details below!

*Sorry, we do not offer: wedding design, u-pick or photo shoots.

Please check with your local florist for wedding work or residential delivery.

Buckets of flowers and greens on wire rack

Without a storefront, we rely on the partnerships of our wonderful local friends to stock Roots bouquets.
(Be sure to double-check shop hours and bouquet availability.)

Farmer Michelle speaking to tour group on the farm

For Flower Farmers

Michelle’s consulting passion centers around the business side of flower farming and navigating self-employment: balancing family/farm, profitability and metrics, and increasing production. Aimed toward experienced growers, these consultations are designed to take your flower farm to the next level.

Consult with Michelle

We also offer annual field tours led by Michelle that are geared toward professional flower farmers.

And above all, be sure to join the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers.

Check for Upcoming Growers Tours

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Treat yourself or someone special to locally-grown, deluxe bouquets available in monthly or weekly sessions. Spots are limited.

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My goodness the flowers are nice right now. Orlaya and sweet William are thigh high and the foxglove sings to me every time I go by. The wise Dr. John Dole said flowering is often good after a hard winter- I’d say this spring is proving him right.

Phew. I kept telling these guys one more crazy week… I hope I’m right. They rolled right off of Mother’s Day into planting over 15k plugs, harvesting peonies twice a day, making arrangements for commencements and mountains of bouquets for club, stores and graduations. They have been champs in the rain and hustled through tight schedules.
Mighty. Thankful.

Last weekend sure was sweet! If you gifted someone a bouquet club subscription or if you bought your own, Monthly Club starts Friday!! The peonies are just in time, with their supporting fans foxglove and orlaya. Check your inboxes because you don’t want to miss this pickup!

Here’s the dirt: literally. This is a trial of 13 different sunflower varieties with @ascfginc seed trail program and a few of our own. I’m pretty loyal to our favorites because sunflowers are the backbone of our supermarket bouquets. Curious if any of these new varieties will win my heart.

It takes a community to turn picture 1 into picture 2. THANK YOU to every single member of this amazing Roots community- people who share my posts, send us kind notes, shop at the farm, join our club, work on our crew, cheer from afar. And most importantly, thank you to my mom (and dad) who taught me to garden and never once said that studying plants was a silly idea. It truly is an honor to live this crazy plant life. You all make this possible.
—💐Michelle.

One of our favorite crops of the year- hyacinthoides! Wood hyacinth or Spanish bluebell. It's a bulb that only blooms for about a week. Tall stems, a dream to harvest with the sweetest scent The past two years, we've bee fortunate to have it hit for Mother's Day. You are right, we are tucking these into as many bouquets and arrangements as we can! Most likely, as you read this, they are already on their way to our wonderful partner stores: @oakgrovefarmsinc @beemansbakedgoods @talking_breads and @mountzjewelers And Of Course, we will have them Saturday at the farm. Can't wait to see you then!

I got to thinking about all the amazing women I get to partner with in this crazy little business life. It seems fitting to shout out to all my many, many mighty women friends who make our community great. @beemansbakedgoods @metalledwith @talking_breads @leafprojectpa @peoples.provisions will all either be at the farm Saturday or we will deliver bouquets to them this week.
As we celebrate our mothers this week, can we just expand it to all the great women? And how lucky we are to have them in our community?
I haven't even begun to list my mighty female crew!

Drop a comment of women who inspire you this week!

This one's for the farmers: I see you. I see you checking those crops a zillion times a day. I see you making harvest lists, to do lists, supply lists, crew schedules. I see you worrying if the orders will come in or if you will have enough time to fulfill them. I see you tossing and turning at night, wondering if the weather will hold for your event.

This is our week! We've got this. We were made for this! We have the true honor to help people celebrate their moms and mother-figures in the most precious, beautiful way possible- with flowers. It's an extravagant act to give someone flowers. They are ephemeral, fleeting, fragile and exude so much joy. We are the vessels that allow our community to celebrate, thank and love in the most beautiful way possible. Let's make this week amazing!

We do our best to save all the most special flowers for the mamas. Double tulips are carefully wrapped and stored in the cooler, hellebore is awaiting its last harvest, ranunculus is at peak production. We are also harvesting the earliest peonies, foxgloves, double dianthus and snapdragons to make this coming week as close to perfection as we can get!

Don't miss the boat! One week from today, Saturday, May 10, is our annual Mother's Day Bouquet Sale at the farm. Pre-orders are live via our website. We highly recommend reserving your flowers because we do sell out. All the details can be found via our website or facebook event page:

The Early Spring Bouquet Club Petal it Forward winners have been sharing the kindest stories and my heart is filled by the power of flowers. I know this sounds so basic, but really, you all are making an impact in our community. Robin has been sharing with her mom going through chemo and a friend whose mom recently passed away. Susan has given bouquets to several friend recovering from surgery. A friend of my mom's even told her she was gifted a bouquet from one of our Petal it Forward ambassadors. We've got nurses in York getting surprise flowers each week.
Really, you all are making our valley brighter. Thank you!
I want to again encourage you today- together we truly can flip ugly on its head by simply sharing beauty.

You guys are good! Before we even sent the email or posted, you guys discovered our Mother's Day shop was open and you all were ordering Monday! Last year we completely sold out of every stem during our Mother's Day Bouquet Sale. While I've vowed to not run out of flowers this year, I wouldn't be too heartbroken if you proved me wrong. The best way to insure you have blooms for your mama is to pre-order via our website. We will also be fully stocking our partner stores twice next week and making mountains of bouquets and arrangements for the farm. It's going to be a beautiful week!

I’ve sort of been hanging on by the skin of my teeth over here! Here are five farm updates:
1. Better germination than ever and propagation greenhouse stuffed with babies.
2. Our vase recycle event was terrific- Thank you. And yes, we will do it again if you missed it.
3. This week, we plant summer annuals!
4. So many Dickinson arrangements for events. We sure do love this town.
5. Crops like early peonies, bluebells, statice, sweet william and viburnum will be right on time for Mother’s Day. Why do I ever doubt?

Spring clean out your closets!
We are doing a fun promotion this SATURDAY @simply_yoga_and_fitness Open House. From 9-11am, bring us your used vases and jars, and we will give you an adorable tulip cup! In honor of Earth Day, we are collecting all your unwanted vases to re-use.
**Please, no colored glassware. We can use any size jar but need to have labels removed. We also cannot use bud vases. Any other size vase will happily find a new home!**

Simply Yoga Open House is Saturday, April 26, 9-2, but our vase recycle event is 9-11am. @simply_yoga_and_fitness is located in the Penrose Plaza, Carlisle. We hope you will come!

I hear two things when I bump into people around town:
1. I just knew they were your flowers
2. Your flower are just nicer
Why? It’s quite simple. Local = fresher. Fresher = more alive, less bruised, and more diverse. We grow flowers that may not ship well…or sit in a bucket for weeks…or last in a warehouse.
BUT! They have personality, grace, movement, and fragrance!
We all know that this is true of any local agricultural product. You simply cannot beat local when it comes to flavor, color, or quality. This is why @papreferred is doing a big push to promote PA agricultural products - because when in season, they are simply the best.
You can look for the PA Preferred or search their website to see the wild diversity of PA agricultural products. And you can make an effort to support the farmers who live here with you.
(A note to my farmer friends: Join the PA Preferred program! We are stronger together!)

#PAPreferredProud @pennsylvaniagov
“Paid for with Pennsylvania taxpayer dollars.”

Hey Designers! We are trying something new this year. In addition to our bulk buckets, we will offer an occasional availability list of bunches for abundant crops (think tulips, peonies, feverfew, lisianthus, specialty greens and more). We will not publish this every week, but sometimes we have an abundance of the most perfect blooms that we'd love to make available for your events. To join our list, follow the banner on our website and be sure to check the designer box. We look forward to working with you this season!

You all are the best! Thanks to everyone who showed up yesterday @beemansbakedgoods We are back at it today at the beautiful and expanding @talking_breads We will be ready by 9 am and are hustling to make as much as we can. We hope to be there til 2, unless we sell out earlier! So hop on over!

Today! 9am @beemansbakedgoods until sold out! When I say I have then best crew in the world I mean it. Yesterday we were harvesting and arranging flowers “in real time.” We picked what was ready, made bouquets and arrangements, waited for the sun to warm, and did the cycle again. It was a wild ride, and somehow by 4:15 we had finished and made the most beautiful things for your Easter tables with not a stem to spare. The love and dedication of these women is real! We think you’ll see it in the beauty of the flowers they made for you today. Marcy and Beth will be on the porch @beemansbakedgoods and the rest of us will be back at the farm picking more tulips.

Happy as a clams over here working with the most lovely hellebores, tulips, ranunculus and and quince this week. This cool late spring has kept us on our toes, but the flowers are showing up right on time, better than I could have imagined.
Tomorrow Beth and Marcy will be @beemansbakedgoods 9-sold out.
Saturday @talking_breads 9-2:30.

It's been a long time since the calendar and the crops have aligned for us to take the Easter show on the road. (last time was in masking and waiting your turn to enter a store times...) We're spending the week thigh deep in the most beautiful tulip crop and are pumped to be bringing them into the world!
Friday, April 18, 9-sold out @beemansbakedgoods with bouquets, bunches, arrangements and special orders (preorders close today at 5pm!)
Saturday, April 19, 9-2:30 @talking_breads with bunches and bouquets. Part of their annual Easter Egg Hunt- don't be late!

Beth and Marcy can't wait to see you!

This is Quince Double Take Orange, a thornless quince that looks more like a camelia or garden rose. I cannot wait to use these in your vibrant Easter arrangements and bouquets!
Have you heard the Roots Easter plan?
@beemansbakedgoods Friday, on the porch, 9am until sold out. If you want to preorder, this is the only pickup spot for these!
@talking_breads Saturday 9-2:30, as a part of their annual Easter Egg Hunt
We will have tulips in abundance, plus bouquets and jars each day.
Can't wait to see your smiling faces!

I sort of got to thinking about yesterday about how much is happening, growing, changing that we cannot see. This statice crop was planted out a month ago, in freezing conditions and covered with this frost fabric. You can only see a rippling blanket of white most days when I survey the field. But when it rains and presses the fabric down, you can see that the little plants are thriving beneath their blanket. The same is true of tulips, daffodils and other spring bulbs: they do their growth work all winter, rooting in and establishing. In the spring they burst forth in wild bloom and we celebrate. But the truth is that we should also be celebrating the wild, hard, dark, tenacious rooting wrestle just as much. The bloom is just the finish line or the grand finale.
So my goal for myself this week is to try to see the whole person, the whole plant, the whole process. If you're in the dark wrestle, I'm rooting for you. Tenacious, deep roots can be just as beautiful as the bloom.

A few pre-order ONLY items have been added to our shop for pickup Good Friday, April 18 @beemansbakedgoods We will also bring mountains of tulip bunches, smaller arrangements and a few bouquets. Come early for the best selection! 9am until sold out. Pre-order online: rootsflowerfarm.com/shop

Easter! We are doing Easter two exciting ways this year. If you want to preorder, Erin just opened the shop for some exclusive items: deluxe centerpieces, ranunculus bunches, and spring twig wreaths. We will bring these plus much more to @beemansbakedgoods Friday, April 18. We will also be @talking_breads Saturday April 19, as part of their annual Easter Egg Hunt celebration.

Today is the first day our Petal it Forward ambassadors are sending surprise bouquets into the world. Robin, Brenda, Pam and Susan- we want your stories of spreading joy through flowers! We also have a special honor this month to send flowers to a group of wonderful York nurses. (These are all part of the Early Spring Bouquet Club group). Sharing the precious, fleeting beauty of flowers is fueling me these days!
How could you share beauty this week?

Deliveries tomorrow:
🌷Early Spring Bouquet Club Week 1 @simply_yoga_and_fitness and @talking_breads
🪻Jars and bouquets @beemansbakedgoods
🪷extra bouquets @talking_breads for purchase

Do you savor these sweet spring blooms as much as I do? Which is your favorite? I’m correctly stuck in a three way tie between grape hyacinth tulips and ranunculus.

Party Buckets! Erin has been emailing me orders nearly every day and I love printing them off and dreaming of the season to come. Some dates are sold out, so if you are planning an event, we recommend getting your orders in early.
New to the concept? Party Buckets are our bulk bucket option for those who want to design their own flowers. Stuffed with 80-100 stems, they are an incredible value featuring the best the farm has each week. We request content flexibility but do allow a color palette preference (soft, bright, neutrals) or 1-2 favorite colors. The best part is the surprise of what will be in your buckets! Let's get this party started! Full details via rootsflowerfarm.com/diybuckets or link in bio.

Hello Hellebore! A benefit of a very cold winter is to reduce pest populations; we are already seeing this on the farm as these beauties were plagued by aphids last season. This year they are shining! The other name for this flower is Lenten Rose which is quite fitting as we will be featuring these in our Easter arrangements next week. We are offering Easter two ways this year at our two favorite bakeries. Stay tuned for all the details.

First week of bouquet club is FRIDAY and it’s going to be good! We will also have bouquets both @talking_breads and @beemansbakedgoods if you dragged your feet on joining the club. (But I’m going to be very honest, club members always get the best and biggest bouquets for their commitment to the farm.)
We can’t wait to be back in flowers!

@beemansbakedgoods today!!
First of the ranunculus and tulip bunches plus more darling jars. 📣Spring is here📣

More beautiful than any flowers we’ve picked this week. 46 rows of biodegradable plastic laid in perfect soil moisture conditions yesterday. We spread annual rye seed over the pathways the same day, and this is me driving over the paths to smooth them and press the pathway cover crop into the soil for good germination. As the sky crackled with lightning and we look to a forecast of rain, our timing was perfection in a way that could only be viewed as grace.

Our Early Spring Bouquet Club registration closes Sunday. Four weeks of our most premium bouquets, starting April 11. We prioritize club bouquets over all other outlets, so this is the best way to make sure you don’t miss a bloom. Join via rootsflowerfarm.com

“I really love this life” is what was going through my head yesterday afternoon, as I sat on my tractor under a brilliant blue sky. I had just changed the oil (one of my most hated jobs), delivered beautiful flowers (a favorite job), communicated, led, moved irrigation, broken irrigation, made plans, changed plans. But sitting there, tending soil I’ve worked 11 years to improve, I was struck by how much I love my little life. My wish is for you to say the same today about your one beautiful, wild life.

The most joyful jars you’ve ever seen will be dropped off to @beemansbakedgoods this morning. They open at 8…don’t wait! Stuffed with the very first of our tulips, ranunculus, anemones, and narcissus, you can’t help but smile when you see them.

We are picking flowers! These tulips were potted in crates way back in October. They spent their winter in our cooler, at a consistent 38 degrees. In mid-February, I brought them into our unheated greenhouse, and now they are ready to shine! Forcing tulips is a labor of love, and it's worth it to have a few early blooms. My grandpa would call it "wetting your whistle." We will have limited quantities of mixed mason jars and a few tulip bunches delivered to @beemansbakedgoods THURSDAY morning 8am. Go get em!

Sale! Erin has received a surprising number of dried flower requests this past month. We still have a nice inventory, so we are offering a promotion to you crafters. All dried bunches $5 each, minimum order 10 bunches. Email Erin info@rootsflowerfarm.com for a list of what we've got!

Monday morning YES! It's time for flowers. We are working on a mason jar promotion for this weekend. Are you excited? The farm is on the brink of colorful emergence. We can't wait to share these with you.

This is the time of year that I try to note every ephemeral change. Swelling magnolia buds, emerging hellebores, flowering Cornelian cherry. I absolutely love the rapid changes of spring!
This will be a week of announcements: club members please be sure to check your inboxes. We need confirmation from a few of you before we can announce all our Petal it Forward winners!

First of the blooms, on the first day of spring. We are hoping to have bouquets to local stores in a few short weeks; for now these will go to some event work for @dickinsoncollege Erin will email our free Bouquet Club winners today- check your inboxes! Lots happening around here now that spring is springing.

This is the inspiration for our Petal it Forward Bouquet Club promotion. In 2021, I found out about a national program sponsored by the Society of American Florists that takes placed every October. Often, our farm is out of flowers by this time, but in 2021, we had abundance. So, we showed up at four different locations across Carlisle and handed out two free bouquets to unsuspecting recipients. The catch was that they had to share one with a friend.
I'm not sure my heart has ever been quite as full as it was that day! In about an hour, we gave away 600 bouquets. We had a couple on their way to the JP to get married, college students fighting overwhelm, elderly folks needing a boost. The stories were amazing, my crew was inspired by being able to see such joy, I was over the moon.
Our drawing for the 16 free Bouquet Club subscriptions will take place tomorrow, from all existing Club members. Maybe you need a boost? Maybe you want to be early in ordering one for your mom for Mother's Day? Full details via our website, as always!

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Seasonal Bouquets

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Support Our Retail Partners

For Flower Farmers

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