Recent articles featuring Second Bloom

Cypress coast living // december 2021

Second Bloom is a non-profit with approximately forty volunteers in the Monterey County area. The ladies are like family, volunteering outdoors in cold, wet weather, picking up flowers from Pebble Beach Floral Department… [P7]

Carmel Magazine // summer/fall 2020

As a florist, Anne Bell would stand ankle deep in excess trimmings, creating arrangements that would adorn grand events before being quickly tossed aside. Today, Bell gives new meaning to “flower power”– repurposing…[P74]

Monterey Herald // November 2021

Fresh-cut flowers are a celebration in a vase. Collected into an arrangement to fancy up an event, they introduce color, beauty, elegance, drama. They also fade, fall apart, die. But not right away… [RM]

The Carmel Pine Cone // November 2020

Big events and big spaces call for big floral arrangements. But did you ever wonder what happens to them when the party’s over? Even amid the pandemic, people are still marrying and celebrating milestones… [12A]