The event was captured for Slow Flowers Journal's Fall 2024 cover story, photographed by Matt McDaniel (read the story here). Slow Flowers asked the women, American Flowers Week botanical couture designers for past seasons, whether they wanted to create a botanical couture look using classic Pacific Northwest greens and foliage. American Flowers Week is the advocacy, education and outreach campaign produced by Slow Flowers Society and slowflowers.com.
at americanflowersweek.com, where you can download free graphics, social media badges, coloring sheets, photography, fact sheets and more resources. Inspired by the success of British Flowers Week, American flowers advocate Debra Prinzing created the U.S. version of the domestically grown flowers promotion campaign in 2015.
Now in its 11th year, American Flowers Week (AFW) is a celebration "to raise consumer awareness and unite America's flower farmers." The AFW website lists several ways to get involved and has many downloadable. In its seventh year, American Flowers Week has gained significant momentum generating more than 14.5 million impressions across social media platforms since its launch. Prinzing encourages everyone involved in flower farming and floral design with America's flowers to use the #americanflowersweek hashtag to draw attention to the campaign.
American Grown Flowers Week 2025, celebrated from June 28 to July 4, arrives with renewed momentum as the domestic flower industry gains unprecedented legislative backing. This year's celebration builds on the significant progress made with the Don Young American Grown Act, which has garnered bipartisan support in Congress and represents a major victory for American []. Prinzig described American Flowers Week, June 28 to July 4, as "a new floral holiday that gives retailers a cost-effective theme for promoting bouquets, flower bunches and plants that are sourced from domestic nurseries and flower farms.
American Flowers Week is the advocacy, education and outreach campaign co-produced by Slow Flowers Society, the Slow Flowers Podcast with Debra Prinzing and Slowflowers.com, the free, nationwide, online directory to Slow Flowers and the people who grow and design with them. American Grown Flowers and Foliage Month is a dedicated month to celebrate, recognize and appreciate the exceptional talents and efforts of our nation's flower and foliage farmers during July when all 50 states are blooming. Celebrating American Flower Week: A Tribute to Nature's Beauty Every year, flower lovers across the United States come together to celebrate American Flower Week, a vibrant event dedicated to promoting the beauty and versatility of flowers grown in America.
This week-long celebration highlights not only the aesthetic appeal of blooms but also their significance in American culture, history. American Flowers Week is bolstered by the support and sponsorship of industry partners, such as the giant US-flower advocate Certified American Grown Flowers as well as Johnny's Selected Seeds, Arctic Alaska Peonies, Syndicate Sales, and Longfield Gardens.
