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About Us

Blooming Betties is a micro flower farm in the heart of downtown Loveland, Colorado.  Specializing in floral design needs that are mostly grown on our farm.  We love creating market bouquets, mason jar arrangements, DIY flower buckets, and customized  orders for Colorado’s Front Range and rural Northeastern Colorado. 

Meet our Family

 Melissa Matz, Founder of Blooming Betties

Melissa was born a farm girl from Paoli, Colorado and recently returned to her ag roots as a farmer-florist after leaving the education world to raise a family.  Listening to her soul’s whisperings to grow a cut flower garden, Blooming Betties was born. She delights in nurturing unique varieties of garden classics and revels in the spellbinding fragrances of nature’s bounty. Tending garden is Melissa’s moving meditation and floral design her creative outlet.  Melissa especially enjoys creating moody floral arrangements out of unlikely candidates. Blooming Betties is an opportunity for her push comfort boundaries and tackle the learning curves of being a small-business owner.  Melissa is a people person through and through who delights in building community through her flowers.

Wally Matz, Our World and the Garden/Farm Boy

We had no idea that giving birth to Wally would also give birth to Blooming
Betties, but as we ran around outside it became apparent that flower farming was a serious possibility.  Wally’s favorite garden task is watering the flowers (and himself.) He enjoys traveling to the farm in Paoli and riding the tractor with mom during wheat and corn harvest. He has a pretty serious toy farm that he owns and operates.  He loves to smell the flowers with mommy and stomp in puddles after rain.  Ask him to do his coyote impression and you’ll find yourself howling at the moon.

Scott “Danger” Matz, The Rock (climber)

Alpinist turned dad turned urban farmer, Scott lovingly handles the beast rototiller and brings home yards of compost after a full day at his “real work” as a warehouse manager . His support and willingness to see Blooming Betties succeed are indeed the reason why it has.  You’ll see him filling in all the gaps from pulling weeds to making deliveries, all with a smile.  

Our Vision

We are happiest and our best selves when we get outside. Our dream is to grow Blooming Betties into an opportunity to optimize family time as a full-blown flower farm.  We are starting small and learning along the way.  We look forward to the day we have to search for more land to grow on and aspire to hire a few employees to help with operations.   We work hard to infuse our values into our family business and are committed to adding love and laughter, and a whole lot of stoke to the world. We are grateful for the warm welcome we have received and look forward to sharing our journey with you.

 


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“Ferris Wheel” wins as the first daff bloom! I “Ferris Wheel” wins as the first daff bloom! It totally surprised me because I didn’t think this was an early variety - the best part? It smells like chocolate! Seriously! 
 
I just love daffodils. They’ve been really brightening up my nightly walks with Lucy with their glow. 

Scott helped me out and planted over a thousand new narcissus last fall when I was out with Covid.  Let’s hear it for the hubs!

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The peony roots are starting to poke through and w The peony roots are starting to poke through and while I won’t be harvesting any blooms for the first few years I’m so excited.

Aren’t peonies beautiful - with their crazy colorings as they emerge? I learned about the magic of plant coloring last night in a lecture by Stanford’s Dr. Virginia Wolbot hosted by @santacruzdahlias The dark red/purple color of the new growth acts as a sunscreen while the plants are emerging - a natural hardening off process if you will. So. Cool.  It was a great lecture and left me so curious. 

In terms of peonies, I potted up a few varieties that I couldn’t get into the ground in the fall (we had Covid and got behind) that will be available for purchase at the starter sale in May if you are interested. 

I may have to go snag more pics of this in the snow today. Oh Colorado. You do you. 

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Did you know that tulips are harvested at “color Did you know that tulips are harvested at “color crack” stage? This gives you the longest vase for your tulips. This is day 1 for the tight buds in this picture and the picture of the solo tulip was picked on Saturday and is four days into it’s vase display.

Variety: Foxy Foxtrot

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The first tulip of the season has arrived. Foxy fo The first tulip of the season has arrived. Foxy foxtrot. I think she shows up a bit more yellow in pics  than she is in real life. She’s a bit on the small side but makes up for it in her sweet smell (I think it smells like honey) and vase life. She also changes a bit in color as she ages. 

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So excited to have received some new (very beautif So excited to have received some new (very beautiful) dahlia tubers. Most notably, KA’s Rosie Jo and Valley Tawny. 🤤 #bloomingbetties #flowerfarm #lovelandcolorado
Can someone tell me why chickens are so fun to pho Can someone tell me why chickens are so fun to photograph? These jerks have been cooped up since motoring off some sweet peas but I decided they could be ungrounded with close supervision. (Most of the sweet peas are ok - just potentially mislabeled. 🤷‍♀️

This is our Chocolate Orpington “Big Brown” as dubbed by Wally.  Shortly after this was taken he went for the phlox and got a nice shower from the garden hose. 

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The race is on to get as much done as I possibly c The race is on to get as much done as I possibly can before the flower “season” starts next week (ish) and tulips start finding their way to their destiny. 

Today I took cuttings of geraniums, basil, and dahlias. I love cuttings to be honest but feeling like I should have done this a month ago. Shown here is Mrs. Henry Cox and she’s a heck of a plant. Geraniums, especially scented are some of my favorite greens. 

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