Editor’s note: Each month this year, The Oconee Enterprise will highlight a female business owner or female leader of a local nonprofit or charity.
For Oconee resident Kedron Nicholson, the childhood memories of her father’s flower shop have stayed with her as she embarks on her own floral adventure. When she was a child, her family would take leftover flowers like Easter lilies, Mother’s Day corsages or Christmas poinsettias to a nursing home.
After growing up around her father’s flower shop in south Georgia, Kedron now brings her twin 7-year-old boys to her Twin Run Flower Farm at 1845 Barnett Shoals Road in Watkinsville.
The farm is now offering U-pick daffodil sessions Wednesday-Saturday mornings, and small groups will be able to reserve afternoon picking sessions during those days. Open picking will also be allowed on Sunday afternoons.
For updated weekly times, people can check the farm’s Facebook or Instagram accounts.
When visitors arrive for flower picking, Nicholson will give them a quick lesson on cutting flowers along with a compostable cup and water for the daffodils. For more information, visit twinrunflowerfarm.com/book-online.
Plant cultivation is in Nicholson’s family. Her grandfather, a nursery operator who died before she could meet him, had a significant influence on her father, who ended up running his own flower shop.
“I really grew up in my dad’s flower shop,” she said, “so a lot of my appreciation for beauty, my understanding of the purpose of flowers and the ability for flowers to heal, celebrate and be a part of people’s lives...it [all] came from seeing that my whole life.”
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The Link LonkMarch 04, 2021 at 06:00AM
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