Seasonal, sustainable blooms that bring nature’s charm to your day.
Locally Grown, Cut Flowers, serving Durham Region, grown in North Oshawa.
Fresh Cut Flowers
Located on the border of North Oshawa and serving the Durham Region in Southern Ontario, my micro flower farm offers locally grown, seasonal blooms that bring the beauty of nature into your everyday life. Specializing in ready-made bouquets for celebrating life’s moments, I create floral arrangements that reflect the unique charm of each season. With a focus on sustainability and connection to nature, my flowers invite you to slow down, savor simple joys, and celebrate the beauty of the seasons—whether as a gift for a loved one or to brighten your own space, and uplift your spirit.
Bouquets are available for pickup at our self-serve flower stand, and at Turquoise Boutique in Whitby, during the growing season*. Local delivery is available upon request. Cash or e-transfer only.
Bouquets contain a mix of introduced, traditional bouquet staples and native blooms.
*The growing season in our region of Southern Ontario usually provides blooms from Mid April to Early October. Mother Nature calls the shots and these timelines can vary from year to year.
Meet Christine.
“I’ve loved flowers since I was a young girl” is what you might expect me to write. Alas, before evolving into a flower farmer and florist, I was paving over paradise with my architectural background. (Car dealerships really have a hate relationship with plants and a love of parking lots, and I was part of a team that designed new or renovated existing dealerships across Canada.) I can say I’ve always loved designing though.
As a kid, I loved to do art and crafting until I became so self-conscious of my creations that I stopped drawing. But that urge to create leaked out through Lego creations, wood/construction projects with my dad or rearranging all the furniture monthly. It meant I grew up to be quite handy. I wanted to be an Interior Designer but because I had stopped doing ‘art’ I had no portfolio to submit to Colleges or Universities.
I powered through and received my Architectural Technology Diploma from George Brown College, later completing the Garden Design Certificate through their partnership with the Toronto Botanical Gardens. I’ve worked in design since 2007, initially designing kitchens and bathrooms, then branded commercial designs across Canada. Eventually, my journey led me to garden design, but balancing client work and motherhood left me searching for a way to work alongside my children and not miss a moment of this fleeting phase of their childhood. That urge to create something is always there for me; an itch that needs to be scratched. It keeps me tethered to who I am as a person, separate from my role as Mama.
I grew up seeing flowers as part of the landscape. Look but don’t touch, definitely do not pick them! As kids do, mine changed the ‘rules’ around that. After our kids picked all the flowers in my landscape to offer me gifts or make stews and brews, I planted our first "cutting garden" and the gifting of our flower bounty began. There was no turning back from the magic that unfolded for us.
Creating and sharing the beauty that we are surrounded with, highlighting the magical details, witnessing how connected our actions are to the environment around us has become my mission.
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
— Pablo Picasso
By slowing down to savor the simple moments and working with nature’s rhythm, we create beauty that connects us to the world around us and the fleeting seasons of life.
Contact
christine@buyingthymedesigns.ca
(647) 787-2834 (BTDi)
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