Meet Our Growers - Green Effects Cut Flower Farm and Nursery

One of the things we are most proud of at the Collective is our amazing team of local growers!

Owner: Adam and Beth Scalisi

Location: Manlius, New York

Website: https://www.greeneffectslandscaping.com/nursery

Top crops: We pride ourselves on our variety so picking a top 5 was hard!

We love daffodils, ranunculus, dahlias, amaranth, and celosia.

A proud farm moment: Our proudest moment as a farm has been a collection of points when we've been able to successfully pivot or diversify as challenges come up.  We pride ourselves in being able to layer together products or services that not only make efficient use of time and materials for our business, but also for our customers and the environment. Basically making the best/most use out of what we use and what we have available.

Something exciting happening in 2024: We're adding "Greenhouse 3" for in-ground growing!  G1 (greenhouse 1) was our first (14x50) and was the start of our flower farming and nursery plant sales portion of our business about 7 years ago. It was/is so small and a little wonky because it was a used frame but we loved it!  3 years later we added G2 which was our "nice greenhouse", a 20x75.  It was an upgrade to our retail space for nursery sales and our little G1 became seed starting and plug growing-only

space.  We also converted part of our larger greenhouse into our interior

venue space a year later.  This spring we are putting up G3 for in-ground growing!!  This will be a 30x100 tunnel that will allow us to have harvestable blooms at least 10 if not 12 months a year.  We are SO excited because it also takes the burden off of the "rush of the seasons" trying to get everything planted in the spring and then everything cleaned in the Fall before winter sets in. We are looking forward to earlier crops like forced spring bulbs, snapdragons and ranunculus, a longer window for high quality dahlias, and later harvest of heirloom mums into the winter.

Other services offered:

• Nursery plant sales (flowers, veggies, hanging baskets) during the spring weekends only (mid april to end of May)

• Monthly and Annual Fresh Flower Subscriptions (delivery option available)

• Event Floral Arrangements (weddings, centerpieces, focal pieces, condolence, seasonal, prom, etc)

• On-Site Venue (greenhouse space with tables, chairs, etc.  Max group 50 people, wedding ceremonies, baby/bridal showers, dinner parties with outside caterers)

• Photography Bookings (in-greenhouse, out in flower field photoshoots)

• Seasonal bulb, tuber, corm sales