Our first ever TFM collective piece for Grow Op in Spring 2016 at The Gladstone Hotel. A group of farmer-florists: Jessica Gale, Jaime McCuaig, Sarah Nixon, and Sas Long, along with Natasa Kajganic and Natalie Petozzi imagined what it would be like to experience the world of the Greek Goddess of Spring, Persephone. Upon entering the hotel, on their way up to the Grow Op exhibition, guests were greeted by the feeling of being under ground.

Looking up, you will see an entire flower. A harbinger of spring, Narcissus begin growing in the fall, setting roots at a time when nature cycles into death and hibernation. After surviving winter’s coldest days, the bulb concentrates its energy upward to flower. Persephone asks - is it not best, at times, to see the world from upside down?

All daffodils were locally grown in St.Catherines and donated by Pioneer Flower Farms. Photos by Liam Coo & Natasa Kajganic. Daffodil illustration by Courtney Wotherspoon.