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BY SAM SCHAFFER
Celia Malkemus said she puts a large focus on the customer experience when curating designs for clients.
Bloom and Leaf in Leander creates a wide range of oral arrangements.
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Bloom and Leaf curates original oral arrangements From loose owers to intricate arrangements, the customer experience is top of mind for Celia Malkemus when she’s putting together oral designs for her clients.
Most of the arrangements assembled at Bloom and Leaf are custom or original designs.
locally and own in from a farm in Ecuador. Most of the arrangements are original or custom designs. “I do my thing, my way,” Malkemus said. Dig deeper Malkemus’ 25 years of experience in the indus- try has instilled her with a knowledge base that enables her to present customers with a range of options and professional design advice. What else? Bloom and Leaf oers a wide array of arrange- ments and owers. Packages range from around $50 to hundreds of dollars, and she said she uses higher grade owers the more upscale the request.
Malkemus, owner of the Bloom and Leaf oral studio operating out of Leander, said the vast majority of what she does is custom design or original oral arrangements. The gist In a green barn-style building next to her home, Malkemus and her employees take loose owers from a walk-in cooler and trim them before professionally arranging them for a wide-range of occasions, most recently Mother’s Day. Malkemus said her owers are both sourced
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