All the April flowers

TASHA MURESAN, BLOOM BLOOM

WORK • Tuesday Routine

TASHA MURESAN • owner & creative director • BLOOM BLOOM
Neighborhood you work in: Greenpoint

It’s Tuesday morning, where are you working?
Tuesdays often function as Mondays for me, especially during wedding season, when my weekends are committed to events (and subsequently deep cleaning my studio). They're like a weekly restart, and I like to begin them on 28th Street at the New York Flower Market whenever I can. I’ll grab an Americano or iced matcha from PPL on my walk with my dog Sonny before I hop in the car and head into Manhattan.

What’s the Tuesday morning scene at your workplace?
I'm usually at the Market to get inspired and see what flowers are trickling in for the week. If I've got a pre-order in the works for whatever event is happening later in the week, I’ll check in on those flowers, then build upon my ideas and existing palette with all the gorgeous unanticipated flowers coming in from all over the world. The surprise flowers you can't plan in advance for are often the most beautiful. I always begin at Dutch Flower Line (for everything special and luxurious) and 28th Street Wholesale (lush and local), but stop in at G Page (orchids and other tropicals) and Jamali Garden (vases and supplies), too. If I'm shopping, like I did this morning, I manage to Tetris all the flower boxes into the back of my old Subaru, and head back to the studio to process and hydrate the flowers, and then begin my workday.

What’s on the agenda for today?
I'm watching flowers I sourced this morning drink and get strong ahead of this weekend's workshop — I teach flower-arranging workshops regularly, and this week's is all about designing with a pin frog to create simple sculptural arrangements using some pretty special spring flowers (the varieties we wait all year for). I'm really excited. I really love sharing flowers in this way, with people who don't get to touch all of these specialty stems all the time, like I do.

What’s for lunch?
Like the proper florist I am, I've already scarfed down a croissant in the car with my first, pre-market coffee earlier this morning. I'll probably need some vegetables later and my standard for a filling, feel-good lunch is anything from Cafe Alula. I really love the avocado, labneh, and za'tar sandwich, to which I always add an egg. 

Any plans tonight?
My best friend is in town from California, so we're touring a few of her old Greenpoint favorites tonight. Probably splitting a Genovese pie from Fornino before cozying up at Achilles Heel with some cocktails. Hopefully it'll be chilly enough that they'll still have a fire going and I'll get to order a hot toddy.