Custom Clothes: Whole Foods Flowers

Whole Foods Flowers

Whole Foods will be marking its flowers with the distance they traveled so customers can make a "green" choice. While there are flowers from Virginia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, there will also be flowers from growers as little as 8 miles from the store.Whole Foods flower arrangers Julie and Rose have gained quite a reputation in Annapolis and they now do the flowers for at least one or two weddings a week. They can work with a budget as small as $300 or one as large as $5,000.Jen Thompson, regional manager for flowers, said flower sales might make up about 3 percent of the grocery store's sales. Except this weekend. Mother's Day will push flower sales to 10 percent of the store's gross.For more flower pictures from Whole Foods in Annapolis, keep reading.Here are the best of the rest of the pictures I took this morning. I was particularly intrigued by One Straw Farm this time because of their gorgeous organic produce. The multi-colored chard, purslane and other greens were spectacular.They won't be at the Sunday market under the viaduct tomorrow, but you can catch them at the new-this-year Wednesday farmers market in the parking lot of the Mount Washington Whole Foods. It's open from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.I have to say much as I love shopping at farmers markets, they can sometimes disappoint. ...Eating locally isn't always easy. Last weekend I bought some Bing cherries that were overripe. I tried to like them, but I ended up buying a pound of the wonderful firm, juicy Bings from Whole Foods, which probably came from Australia.