Coulee Creek Florals
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Coulee Creek Florals has evolved over the 15 years I have been "in business". I am a Registered Nurse by profession, but once the kids started coming, I chose to stay home with them as well as help around the farm. My parents grew up on farms, but chose the city life instead, and I grew up in Federal Way, Washington. I always loved coming to Eastern Washington for the summer and knew that someday I'd move here and perhaps marry a farmer...?? Funny how life turns out! Coulee Creek Florals began as a very small perennial and herb nursery while I worked at a pediatrician's office part time.

After our third child came along, I devoted more time to the horticulture "addiction" I had developed. I started growing more flowers and making floral arrangements, mostly for friends and family, and a reputation for being the local "Garden and Flower Lady" grew. 

Soon, I was rototilling new garden beds all over and expanding the existing ones, with a vision of making the farm a display nursery and destination garden.

A local young couple began wedding plans a few years ago and took a chance on me by hiring me to do their wedding flowers...and it as a large wedding with LOTS of local guests attending...what better advertising than that?!?! They even paid me with a flower cooler!! And here I am today!!

I like to specialize in "The Garden Look", using old-fashioned type flowers and the unusual in my designs, and I love using flowers that I've grown. I also grow edible flowers and vegetables and herbs, so there's plenty of material to choose from. It's been a challenging year, with the wet and prolonged cool spring weather and all the time and preparation it took for our son's graduation, I wasn't able to plant as much as I'd hoped. But it's given me a chance to catch up on other projects that needed to be done but get put off. I can barely stand to be indoors during the summer, so being outside with my flowers and animals and expansive views of the surrounding wheat fields are paradise to me. Now if only I could make another "ME" to help with the work and fiend a way not to ache so much at night...

I look forward to sharing our farm and gardens with all of you when the host the INPRO meeting on Monday, July 14th, 2008. Please bring a light jacket as evenings can get a little chilly, even in the summer. No dogs please - ours prefer it that way.

Directions:
From Francis Ave: Head West on Francis Ave.; turn Left onto 7 Mile Rd. and go 4 miles. Turn left onto Coulee Hite Rd. and go approx. 8 miles, turn Left onto Coulee Hit Rd. (yes, it's called that, too) and go 2 miles. We are the farm on the right - big green barn, green house with white trim.

From Downtown Spokane: Take I-90 Westbound, take Hwy 2 West exit and follow through Airway Heights, past Fairchild AFB gate. From the the FAFB main gate, go approx. 5 miles, turn right onto Coulee Hite Rd., go 4.8 miles. We are the farm on the left - green house with white trim (it's that last house on the road. If you go too far... if you come to the "T", turn around).