The flower fairies are spreading the joy of spring by placing bouquets of flowers around the community for someone to find.
It started in Brightwater last week, when the fairies from The Flower Farm at Appleby placed a bouquet at Snowdon’s Bush in Brightwater and since then, there has been the chance of finding a bouquet as far afield as Motueka and Atawhai.
Owner Viv Deaker says it’s a good way of promoting the business, but mostly it’s about putting a smile on someone’s face when they unexpectedly find the fairies’ bouquets - or passing that smile on if they give the bouquet to someone else.
“We know how people react when they get flowers and we see how hard it is out there at the moment, so just want to spread a bit of spring joy. We’d like to think that somebody who doesn’t buy flowers for themselves gets them.”
Viv says the idea comes from a global movement called Lonely Bouquet Day, where bouquets are left in public spaces for others to find and keep.
Each day, she has been placing a clue on Facebook about the location of the latest bouquet. On the first day, the clue was ‘somewhere in Brightwater where the piwakawaka play’.
Each bouquet has a note that starts with ‘I’m a lonely bouquet’ with the hope it puts a smile on the finder’s face and they give it a home.
It asks that anyone who finds the bouquets, takes a photo and shares it on The Flower Farm’s social media so Viv and her team can follow the bouquet’s journey and know that it found a home.
