A Hyattsville farmer is offering a weekly flower share program to residents of the Route 1 corridor.

Since the summer of 2020, Cristina Flores has grown different flowers on a grassy lot near Route 1 owned by a neighbor and sold them through a community-supported agriculture program at her business Flowers x Flores.

For $280, customers get a weekly bouquet of seasonal flowers from May 17 through July 5 through a no-contact porch pickup in University Park or the Columbia Heights and Petworth neighborhoods of D.C.

Flores told the Hyattsville Wire that the Route 1 corridor is a great place for a florist.

“This area lends itself to growing a great variety of flowers,” she said. “As early as May the garden I tend is full of buds slowly beginning to bloom.”

Flores also sells flowers for special occasions and individual buyers during the growing season and hopes to drop by a farmer’s market in D.C. this spring.

For those looking to grow their own flowers, she recommends planting using the triangular method and trying to plant in clusters of plants by varieties.

To sign up for the flower share program, go here.

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