The Bar Harbor Garden Club will present “Growing Dahlias” with Mary Turner, founder and owner of Salt Farm Flowers, master gardener and educator, on Thursday, May 12, at the Kebo Valley Golf Club.
Artist turns passion into blooming business
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Nancy Diedricksen’s new creative business venture, Paint & Petal, budded from her passion for flowers and art. Through her creations, she seeks to bring meaning to each carefully curated bouquet and arrangement.
“Being an artist and a painter really helps me because I have an eye for color. In the summertime, my paint becomes the flowers, my tools are flowers and vases; in the wintertime, I’m using actual oil paint,” she said.
Formerly a waitress for over 40 years, Diedricksen reconsidered her profession in light of coronavirus concerns, saying, “There is no way I’m going to work inside a restaurant without windows open.”