Marmalade Lilly4 min read

I had the one of the best days recently at Marmalade Lilly…enjoying a wonderfully lazy morning wandering around a 10-acre farm in Loveland picking flowers. You need to just take an hour or so, grab your mom, some friends or significant other and do the same.

You drive up to this cool farm with a rustic barn and flowers growing everywhere. Once you arrive, you’re greeted and handed a basket and some clippers. You’re then guided around the grounds, where you’re able to clip and gather an arrangement of flowers to make into a bouquet.

Once you have your favorite flowers bunched in your basket, you head over to the florist table where they bundle them up in newspaper and twine. Bring your favorite vase, and they’ll help you arrange them…and you’ll be ready to display them when you get home.

But, before you head home, you and your friends can hang out and have lunch and a bottle of wine…right smack dab in the middle of the field of flowers. They have tables set up with tablecloths and you can bring the brunch and drinks. Seriously, adorbs!

This cute place is not only the workplace of Laura Fisher and her family, but they live there as well. They’ve called this beautiful space home for years. In 2014, when her husband lost his job, Laura decided the land they live on was going to be their next venture. They fixed up the barn, got the flowers growing and opened up for weddings and receptions right in the side yard. Their daughter was the first wedding on the property! I hope you have a chance to meet someone from the family. I did, and I’ll tell you…they are a special group. Laura did a great job home schooling all 5 of her kids with some spare time to start this venture :)

It’s a venue with a laid-back, warm feel. It has a great space by the creek and bridge for a wedding ceremony and then a barn to throw the party. During the day, anyone can come and do the flower cutting. Right now, since it’s the end of the season, you have to call and reserve a spot (and they are accepting bouquet orders by phone: 513-604-6561).

Keep an eye on the website. They will be having a centerpiece class in November for your Thanksgiving table and a wreath-making class for the holidays.

Things to know:

• You can bring lunch and drinks and your own linens (or, if you forget, they’ll provide the linens)

• Wear gym shoes or rain boots to walk through the fields

• Prices vary depending on the stem from .50- $4 per flower or stem

• The name was thought up by one of the younger Fisher kids while having breakfast with her mom and eating marmalade of course… she just said “I think we should name it Marmalade Lilly”

• A trick I learned from the Fishers on how to keep the deer away from your flowers…hang bars of Ivory Soap around the property!