Design By Nature
New member Design By Nature in Baltimore, MD www.designbynaturemd.com has a lovely feature in the Oct/Nov 2010 issue of Chesapeake Home!
Owner Robert Honaker launched the store, which features full-service floral design, a well-edited selection of containers and green accessories in a pet-friendly atmosphere, this past August.
With a 25 year career in floral design, his idea was to meet the needs of the community for a local green florist- using local materials, recycling as much as possible and offering customers an example of how they can incorporate this approach into what they do on their own. Some techniques he employs are carrying exclusive items such as refillable, organic candles in recycled glass containers and having a charitable component built into the sale of select products.
Inspired by advise from an 80-year-old woman: “When you’re green you grow and when you’re ripe you rot.”, Honaker intends to maintain a reputation for being a new kind of store for a new era of retail!