{"id":124698,"date":"2025-05-09T11:17:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T18:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/?p=124698"},"modified":"2025-05-09T15:08:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T22:08:42","slug":"this-european-style-flower-shop-in-sebastopol-is-a-hidden-gem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/this-european-style-flower-shop-in-sebastopol-is-a-hidden-gem\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastopol Floral Designer Transports Customers to Europe \u2014 One Bouquet at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"cph-dropcap\">On foggy spring mornings, t<span class=\"Fid_6\">here\u2019s often a small fire burning in the blue woodstove inside Nicole Buttitta\u2019s potting shed on the rural Sebastopol farm she shares with her husband, Fred Reid. The rustic, wood-framed shed, with a clear corrugated roof and big barn doors that slide open onto a small grove of redwoods, was a gift from Fred to Nicole, who met a decade ago in the parking lot of the place where they boarded their dogs. Fred invited Nicole to his family\u2019s farm to exercise their dogs in the fields, and the two ended up walking and talking for three hours. A relationship, one built on a shared love of the land and the outdoors \u2014 and of course, on a love of dogs \u2014 was cemented that day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_7\">Fred, an airline executive, grew up working in the summer on the 40-acre farm alongside his aunt, who bought the land in the 1960s to raise Black Angus cattle, horses, and llamas and sell Gravenstein apples to the Manzana processing facility in Graton. He inherited the farm from his aunt two decades<\/span><span class=\"Fid_7\">\u00a0ago, and over time, rebuilt the old farmhouse to suit the needs of a bachelor with three grown sons. He and Nicole, who also has three grown children, have since adapted the property for the next stage of their lives together, adding new flower fields and a large chicken coop in addition to the potting shed and other outbuildings. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_7\">\u201cThe shed was born out of my desire to just geek out as a gardener and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/favorite-florists-and-flower-farms-in-sonoma-county\/\">flower farmer<\/a>, but also as a gathering place for family,\u201d says Nicole. \u201cWe have these six children together, two daughters-in-law, a couple of grandkids now, and we have big family meals out here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_124244\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124244\" style=\"width: 933px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-124244 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/012225_Maison-Fiori_ERoche_84-933x1400.jpg\" alt=\"Sebastopol flower farmer Nicole Buttitta arranging floral bouquets\" width=\"933\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/012225_Maison-Fiori_ERoche_84-933x1400.jpg 933w, https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/012225_Maison-Fiori_ERoche_84-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/012225_Maison-Fiori_ERoche_84-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/012225_Maison-Fiori_ERoche_84-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/012225_Maison-Fiori_ERoche_84.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 933px) 100vw, 933px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunlight filters through the clear corrugated roof of the potting shed, and there are wide tables for processing blooms for Nicole Buttitta\u2019s shop. (Eileen Roche \/ Sonoma Magazine)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_7\">When the couple married in 2017, the band for the reception set up inside the potting shed, and guests danced out on the lawn under the redwoods until late in the evening. The shed has a big table down the center, plenty of comfy places to sit, shelves for gardening books, and built-in storage for vases, watering cans, and other gardening equipment. An upholstered bench pulls out to make a bed for the grandkids, who think it\u2019s an adventure to nap outdoors in summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_7\">There\u2019s also a big sink and wide concrete countertops for starting seed trays and arranging flowers, features that come in handy for Nicole, who opened Healdsburg\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maisonfiori.com\/\">Maison Fiori<\/a>, a European-style flower shop, in July 2024. Many of the flowers she sells at the shop are grown at the Sebastopol farm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_4\">These days, the farm is alive with the clamor of spring, including baby birds and possums in the fields, bees buzzing in four hives at the edge of the orchard, and some two dozen laying hens in the coop, which supply Nicole\u2019s Healdsburg shop with fresh eggs.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_124239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124239\" style=\"width: 933px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-124239 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/012225_Maison-Fiori_ERoche_326-933x1400.jpg\" alt=\"Sebastopol flower farmer Nicole Buttitta\" width=\"933\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/012225_Maison-Fiori_ERoche_326-933x1400.jpg 933w, https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/012225_Maison-Fiori_ERoche_326-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/012225_Maison-Fiori_ERoche_326-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/012225_Maison-Fiori_ERoche_326-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/012225_Maison-Fiori_ERoche_326.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 933px) 100vw, 933px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Buttitta raises chickens and farms flowers at a rural Sebastopol farm for her shop in Healdsburg. (Eileen Roche \/ Sonoma Magazine)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_4\">\u201cThe fawns come a little bit later in the spring, and we have two wild herons that hunt gophers in the field. I see them almost every day \u2014 they\u2019ll tolerate my presence for a bit and then take off in that beautiful slow, sweeping flight.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_4\">Spring on the farm is \u201cenergetic,\u201d says Nicole, who says that she and Fred revel in the palette of vivid greens from the grasses and trees and pale pinks from the apple blossoms.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"Fid_4\">In the garden, tidy rows of tulips and daffodils begin to give way to roses and peonies leafing out. When the tulips are spent and ready to be taken out, that\u2019s when the dahlia tubers go into the ground. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_4\">\u201cThat\u2019s when the work of tending and weeding and composting really starts. You get a sense for what\u2019s doing well, what needs more nutrients, but Mother Nature has her way, and I need to give room to that,\u201d says Nicole.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"Fid_4\">\u201cI do my part, but then nature says \u2018OK, my turn now.\u2019\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_4\">Both Nicole and Fred say that their relatives, especially Fred\u2019s late aunt, would be pleased to know the land is still in cultivation. Farm to Pantry comes each summer to harvest the Gravenstein apples to distribute to people in need, and Nicole\u2019s flower fields are thriving. \u201cFred wants to be the best steward of this place,\u201d says Nicole. \u201cHe tends this land \u2014 he just has this reverence for it. He knows it intimately.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_124241\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124241\" style=\"width: 933px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-124241 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/012225_Maison-Fiori_ERoche_34-933x1400.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Reid and Nicole Buttitta\u2019s rural Sebastopol farm\" width=\"933\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/012225_Maison-Fiori_ERoche_34-933x1400.jpg 933w, https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/012225_Maison-Fiori_ERoche_34-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/012225_Maison-Fiori_ERoche_34-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/012225_Maison-Fiori_ERoche_34.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 933px) 100vw, 933px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Reid and Nicole Buttitta\u2019s rural Sebastopol farm was founded by Fred\u2019s aunt in the 1960s. Fred stewards the land and tends the redwoods and apple trees, while Nicole raises chickens and farms flowers for her shop in Healdsburg. \u201cThere\u2019s just so much history here on this land,\u201d says Nicole. (Eileen Roche \/ Sonoma Magazine)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_4\">Nicole, the daughter of an immigrant from Sicily who found work as a pruner before starting his own landscape design business, feels the pull of her late father\u2019s lessons.<\/span><span class=\"Fid_4\"> \u201cWhen we were younger, on the weekends and in the summer, my brother and I were our dad\u2019s garden labor force. I hated it at the time \u2014 and look at me now,\u201d she laughs. \u201cI think if my dad had come here, he would have really liked this place.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_4\">Nicole says that the peace they have found there, tending the gardens and orchards has become more resonant this spring. Their son and his family fled wildfire in Los Angeles and moved in with them at the farm for a few weeks in January. Nicole, who lost nearly all of her belongings in a residential house fire in 2009, understands the well of emotions that many Sonoma County locals felt upon witnessing the devastation to the south. <\/span><span class=\"Fid_4\">\u201cYou pick up and put one foot in front of the other, but it still hurts. And every time we smell smoke, we think in a way that people who haven\u2019t experienced a fire don\u2019t necessarily understand.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_124249\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124249\" style=\"width: 933px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-124249 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/012225_Maison-Fiori_ERoche_412-933x1400.jpg\" alt=\"floral bouquets\" width=\"933\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/012225_Maison-Fiori_ERoche_412-933x1400.jpg 933w, https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/012225_Maison-Fiori_ERoche_412-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/012225_Maison-Fiori_ERoche_412-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/012225_Maison-Fiori_ERoche_412-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/012225_Maison-Fiori_ERoche_412.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 933px) 100vw, 933px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flower bouquets at Nicole Buttitta&#8217;s potting shed. (Eileen Roche \/ Sonoma Magazine)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_4\">Wednesdays are harvest days in the flower fields to supply hand-tied bouquets for her store. Nicole stages multiple buckets of water the night before so they\u2019re ready to go, and is in the garden by early morning. She pulls her tractor up to the back gate of the flower field and harvests quickly to get the cut blooms out of the sun and into the shop as soon as possible. Farming and running a shop wasn\u2019t necessarily what she imagined for this stage of her life. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_4\">\u201cBut I love how happy and joyful and excited people get when they see the flowers. People tell me about their gardens, and I answer questions, and that\u2019s been really good,\u201d she says. \u201cAs I grow older, instead of life becoming narrower, our life has really expanded in a way I didn\u2019t know it could.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In rural Sebastopol, a flower farmer and her husband nurture flourishing fields and orchards for family gatherings and eager gardeners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":124246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1308,2620,120,5,25145,749],"tags":[25616,25658,31,25344,25617,3094],"layout":[5591],"class_list":["post-124698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-magazine","category-sonoma-people","category-things-to-do","category-trending","category-whats-new-sonoma-county","tag-floral-design","tag-flower-farmer","tag-sebastopol","tag-sonoma-county-florist","tag-sonoma-county-flowers","tag-sonoma-gardening","issue-march-april-2025"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3.1 (Yoast SEO v25.3.1) - 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