Upcoming Pop ups and Workshops
Water Street Market
Photo credit Devyn with a Why
Build your own bouquet at the Water Street Market, 3rd Sunday of each month 10am-2pm Oct-June. Find me and my bike cart with ultra-fresh flowers and foliage. Featuring local and organic, most are harvested that morning! Long lasting, pesticide free, and grown with sustainable practices.
Now on View | Ephemeral Art Exhibit
Eight artists converge on three Ybor City venues for HCC’s inaugural Now on View June 1. Their purpose: to create a series of temporary public artworks that invite the public to consider Tampa’s past, present, and future. The resulting artworks will be displayed in a one-day public festival in Ybor City with music, food, and other entertainment.
Tours will begin at the HCC Ybor City Campus, Performing Arts building (1411 E. 11th Ave., Tampa). Maps, light refreshments, and parking passes will be provided.
Participating NOW ON VIEW artists:
Samson Huang creates an “Interdependent Pavilion” comprised of local potted plants, color-changing lights, and origami alligators, cranes, birds, butterflies, fish, and squirrels, “The Interdependent Pavilion” reminds us of our connection to the ecosystem. Visitors engage with the art by writing their wishes for a sustainable future onto a tag and hanging it on the Pavilion.
Emiliano Settecasi, founder of The Department of Contemporary Art, Tampa, FL, brings a mobile music and arts venue to HCC Ybor. Settecasi’s custom-made utility cart can host artistic and musical performances when a rented venue is out of reach, a situation becoming more common in Tampa, where pandemic-induced inflation has made brick-and-mortar spaces unaffordable for many local artists. Settecasi’s mobile art space reflects on the current state of the arts in Tampa while providing a possible solution to rising rents. Rising local DJ T. Coutre starts the party with her signature mix of Latin, dancehall, house, baile, funk, Afro and Amapiano beats.
Mia Makes It stitches Tampa’s history to its present through a community art quilt. Before Now on View, the artist hosts embroidery workshops to teach participants to embroider a one to two-sentence reflection on Tampa’s past. During the festival, they’ll stitch the squares together with some of their own embroidery at HCC Ybor to create a community remembrance of Tampa.
Kali Rabaut brings her Flower Bike to Hotel Haya’s entrance for a build-your-own-bouquet experience. Rabaut’s bike holds enough flowers for 50-500 people to create a small bouquet to take home at the end of the day. Unlike your traditional florist who arranges Eurocentric blooms flown in from overseas, Rabaut prefers to use locally grown flowers and foliage in her floralscapes. In doing so, Rabaut connects herself and others to the place where they live.
Libbi Ponce brings sculpture and/or video installation to Hotel Haya lobby. Ponce combines sculpture and video to build worlds inspired by historic folklore, ancestry, and memory. At Now on View, she’ll use a combination of media to create an immersive environment exploring the role of Latinx ancestral history in the formation of South and Central American diasporic communities in the Tampa Bay area.
Emma Quintana reflects on Tampa Bay’s culinary history. Quintana’s Now on View project tells Tampa’s history through its food. Quintana created video combining footage of locals eating with video of Tampa Bay and its connected waterways. During Now on View, she’ll project this footage onto a wall in the historic Kress building to highlight food’s central role in placemaking.
Samantha Modder displays a temporary mural at Kress highlighting one of the first African American communities in Tampa Bay. Construction of the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway displaced several Dobyville families in the 1960s, a loss represented by the Selmon Expressway logo included among depictions of neighborhood kids in Modder’s digitally printed mural.
Nicole Villanueva Garcia invites the public to symbolically embrace newcomers by weaving yarn through the dowels of a Plinko board at Kress. The installation, inspired by underground tree networks and Garcia’s immigrant experience, recreates a colorful forest scene in which participants weave yarn from community trees toward a transplanted tree.
Now on View is organized by Grounds4Art@HCC and is made possible with the support of the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners. Additional support comes from our project partners, including the Arts Council of Hillsborough County, HCC Foundation, HCC Student Government Association, Hotel Haya, and Tempus Projects.
Hyde Park Market
photo credit Sun + Moon Photo
It’s a build your own bouquet experience at Hyde Park Market. Flowers are priced per stem, featuring locally grown, organic flowers and foliage, most from my garden in Tampa Heights.
Have an upcoming party? You can rent the flower bike as a fun bouquet building activity, or delightful party favor for your guests. Learn more here.
Water Street Market
Photo credit Devyn with a Why
Build your own bouquet at the Water Street Market, 3rd Sunday of each month 10am-2pm Oct-June. Find me and my bike cart with ultra-fresh flowers and foliage. Featuring local and organic, most are harvested that morning! Long lasting, pesticide free, and grown with sustainable practices.
Water Street Market
Photo credit Devyn with a Why
Build your own bouquet at the Water Street Market, 3rd Sunday of each month 10am-2pm Oct-June. Find me and my bike cart with ultra-fresh flowers and foliage. Featuring local and organic, most are harvested that morning! Long lasting, pesticide free, and grown with sustainable practices.
Spring Centerpiece Design Workshop at the JCC
Join Blue House Florals in creating a garden-style arrangement for your table, while learning basic floral design principles. Each arrangement will be unique, as we emphasize process over product. All arrangements will feature locally grown, organic flowers and foliage.
Anticipated spring flowers include: lisianthus, cosmos, ammi, snapdragons and more
Ticket $45 – Ages 16+ Sign up here.
Hyde Park Market
photo credit Sun + Moon Photo
It’s a build your own bouquet experience at Hyde Park Market. Flowers are priced per stem, featuring locally grown, organic flowers and foliage, most from my garden in Tampa Heights.
Have an upcoming party? You can rent the flower bike as a fun bouquet building activity, or delightful party favor for your guests. Learn more here.
Art in Bloom at the Museum of Fine Arts
Art in Bloom is the MFA’s signature spring event which showcases the museum’s collection in full bloom with dozens of floral designs inspired by the art and galleries. Floral interpretations will be displayed in the museum’s collection galleries and gardens Thursday, April 4 – Sunday, April 7 and are included with admission. This year is the 25th anniversary of Art in Bloom, and we will be celebrating in grand style!
Blue House Florals will be interpreting a photograph in the welcome gallery, as well as a commissioned floral installation for Cafe Clementine. You won’t want to miss it!
Water Street Market
Photo credit Devyn with a Why
Build your own bouquet at the Water Street Market, 3rd Sunday of each month 10am-2pm Oct-June. Find me and my bike cart with ultra-fresh flowers and foliage. Featuring local and organic, most are harvested that morning! Long lasting, pesticide free, and grown with sustainable practices.
Water Street Market
Photo credit Devyn with a Why
Build your own bouquet at the Water Street Market, 3rd Sunday of each month 10am-2pm Oct-June. Find me and my bike cart with ultra-fresh flowers and foliage. Featuring local and organic, most are harvested that morning! Long lasting, pesticide free, and grown with sustainable practices.
Valentines Floral Design Workshop
Join Blue House Florals in creating a garden-style arrangement while learning basic floral design principles. Each arrangement will be unique, as we emphasize process over product. All arrangements will feature locally grown, organic flowers and foliage.
Anticipated spring flowers include: ranunculus, cosmos, snapdragons, ammi and more.
Saturday, February 10th 2:00pm-3:30pm
Location Meacham Urban Farm
Limited parking is available in their front lot, or there is free parking in the parking garage one block away here.
Hyde Park Market
photo credit Sun + Moon Photo
It’s a build your own bouquet experience at Hyde Park Market. Flowers are priced per stem, featuring locally grown, organic flowers and foliage, most from my garden in Tampa Heights.
Have an upcoming party? You can rent the flower bike as a fun bouquet building activity, or delightful party favor for your guests. Learn more here.
Water Street Market
Photo credit Devyn with a Why
Build your own bouquet at the Water Street Market, 3rd Sunday of each month 10am-2pm Oct-June. Find me and my bike cart with ultra-fresh flowers and foliage. Featuring local and organic, most are harvested that morning! Long lasting, pesticide free, and grown with sustainable practices.
Winter Cut Flower Garden Workshop
Learn how to grow beautiful, organic cut flowers in Florida’s winter. Kali is the gardener and the florist behind Blue House Florals, a specialty cut flower garden and design studio in the heart of Tampa Heights. During this workshop, we will explore the following topics:
changing over beds
starting seeds
caring for plants
common pests
harvest techniques
frost hardiness
Location: Blue House Florals garden in Tampa Heights. 2302 N Massachusetts Ave Tampa, FL 33602. We’re on a corner lot and there is street parking available.
INCLUDED IN THE WORKSHOP
The workshop includes:
in-person presentation followed by a Q&A
digital how-to guide
Please email me Kali@bluehousefloralstampa.com with any accessibility needs.
ADD-ONS AVAILABLE
Seeds (+$25): Kali has carefully selected Florida-friendly cut flowers that are tried and true to our region. This seed collection will be more than enough for a 4x8 garden bed.
Plugs (+$90): Plugs are basically seedlings, or baby plants. This is a great option if you are a newb gardener, or just want to get a head start on your planting. These plugs will be in soil blocks and will look like little dirt brownies with a baby plant in them. They will be ready to transplant when you receive them. This plug collection will be more than enough for a 4x8 garden bed. Please bring a baking dish to transport the plugs to your garden.
PAY WHAT YOU CAN
Suggested price of $35/person. I ask that you pay for participation in the class according to your ability at this time.
Seminole Heights Market
photo credit Devyn with a Why
Build your own bouquet at the market. Find me and my bike cart with ultra-fresh flowers and foliage. Local and organic, most are harvested that morning! Long lasting, pesticide free, and grown with sustainable practices.
Have a party coming up? You can rent the flower bike for your own build your own bouquet experience. Learn more here.
Dried Flower Fest
Winter solstice is upon us, and dried flowers are a great way to feel the festivus. Join me for a dried flower festival in the garden, where we’ll be making our own everlasting crafts: wreaths, ornaments, garlands, and bundles.
Where: Blue House Florals garden
2302 N Massachusetts Ave
Tampa, FL 33602
When: Saturday, December 9th 9am-12pm.
*10% of sales will be donated to Graham Elementary School PTA, funding great experiences for Tampa Heights kids such as field trips, a school garden, and more.
I’ll have 4 stations set up in the garden and will be wandering around, coaching you up. This is an à la carte experience, so you can pick which stations you’d like to do. Reserve a spot by pre-purchasing below, or swing by to create your own.
Send me an email at kali@bluehousefloralstampa.com if you’d like me to custom create a wreath, ornament, garland, or bundle for you to pick up. A 30% design fee will be added to each item.
Hyde Park Market
photo credit Sun + Moon Photo
It’s a build your own bouquet experience at Hyde Park Market. Flowers are priced per stem, featuring locally grown, organic flowers and foliage, most from my garden in Tampa Heights.
Have an upcoming party? You can rent the flower bike as a fun bouquet building activity, or delightful party favor for your guests. Learn more here.
Everlasting Ornament Workshop
Photo credit Sun and Moon Photography
Get in the holiday spirit with Kali of Blue House Florals to create a unique set of 4 festive glass ornaments filled with dried, everlasting florals.
Enjoy playing with color, texture, and shape in this beautifully baubilicous workshop. In addition to learning the best techniques for creating this ship-in-a-bottle feel decor, you'll also learn some best practices for growing and creating your own dried florals.
Tickets are $30 per person. Sign up in store at Sans Market or by calling 727-332-7000 to reserve your spot.
Available add-ons:
➕Additional ornaments can be added at $5/ornament
🌱Cut flower seeds ideal for drying will be available for purchase at $5/seed packet (enough for a 4 x 8 bed) or 5 for $20 ($4 each)
Add-ons can be applied at ticket purchase or the day of the event.
Water Street Market
Photo credit Devyn with a Why
Build your own bouquet at the Water Street Market, 3rd Sunday of each month 10am-2pm Oct-June. Find me and my bike cart with ultra-fresh flowers and foliage. Featuring local and organic, most are harvested that morning! Long lasting, pesticide free, and grown with sustainable practices.
Seminole Heights Market
photo credit Devyn with a Why
Build your own bouquet at the market. Find me and my bike cart with ultra-fresh flowers and foliage. Local and organic, most are harvested that morning! Long lasting, pesticide free, and grown with sustainable practices.
Have a party coming up? You can rent the flower bike for your own build your own bouquet experience. Learn more here.
Pumpkin Flower Press
Photo credit Katelyn Rose Studio
Pumpkins deserve flowers too. Join @bluehousefloralstampa at @blackradishgrocer Sunday, Oct 15 5:30pm-7pm for an autumnal pressed flower workshop. We’ll be using a plant based glue to fix flowers to some lovely pumpkins. It’ll be gourd-geous! Each ticket includes light bites and a mock tail to enjoy while creating. $55/person
These pumpkins will do best displayed indoors, due to Florida’s humidity.
Please let us know about any accessibility needs by emailing kali@bluehousefloralstampa.com
Tickets are non-refundable, but can be transferred.
In case of rain, the workshop will be moved indoors or under a tent.
By purchasing, you give Blue House Florals permission to use your image.
Water Street Market
Photo credit Devyn with a Why
Build your own bouquet at the Water Street Market, 3rd Sunday of each month 10am-2pm Oct-June. Find me and my bike cart with ultra-fresh flowers and foliage. Featuring local and organic, most are harvested that morning! Long lasting, pesticide free, and grown with sustainable practices.
Seminole Heights Market
photo credit Devyn with a Why
Build your own bouquet at the market. Find me and my bike cart with ultra-fresh flowers and foliage. Local and organic, most are harvested that morning! Long lasting, pesticide free, and grown with sustainable practices.
Have a party coming up? You can rent the flower bike for your own build your own bouquet experience. Learn more here.
Season Kick-off at Meacham
It’s Meacham Urban Farm’s 1st annual Harvest Fest! I’ll be there selling garden goodies you need to get your cut flower garden started. Seeds, plugs, and even some flowers to build your own bouquet.
Hyde Park Market
photo credit Sun + Moon Photo
It’s a build your own bouquet experience at Hyde Park Market. Flowers are priced per stem, featuring locally grown, organic flowers and foliage, most from my garden in Tampa Heights.
Have an upcoming party? You can rent the flower bike as a fun bouquet building activity, or delightful party favor for your guests. Learn more here.
Flower Pounding Workshop Sans Market
We’ll be doing a therapeutic eco printing method where we transfer botanical dyes through hammering. Each participant will create their own unique botanical print on a tea towel to take home. We’ll use locally grown, organic flowers and foliage from the garden of Blue House Florals.
Dwell Water Street Pop-up
photo credit Sun + Moon Photo
Build your own bouquet at Dwell Water Street. Find me and my bike cart with ultra-fresh flowers and foliage. In the spirit of brunch, Dwell will be serving up some mimosas for you to sip while you shop.
Please note: It’s summer time, which is the off-season for growing flowers in Florida. So I’ll have a mixture of locally grown, along with some conventionally grown beauties from the wholesaler to supplement.
Water Street Market
photo credit Sun + Moon Photo
Build your own bouquet at the market. Find me and my bike cart with ultra-fresh flowers and foliage. Local and organic, most are harvested that morning! Long lasting, pesticide free, and grown with sustainable practices.
Water Street Market
photo credit Sun + Moon Photo
Build your own bouquet at the market. Find me and my bike cart with ultra-fresh flowers and foliage. Local and organic, most are harvested that morning! Long lasting, pesticide free, and grown with sustainable practices.
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