Midnight Blossom, a modern twist to flowers

Ballardites Matt and Amoreena Herbage have just opened a new flower shop in Ballard.

This is a flower shop, but Midnight Blossom is not your traditional bouquet-type shop with carnations, lilies and roses. It’s best described as a botanical design studio. Amoreena makes art with the flowers and plants that she uses and Matt has a woodshop in the back where he does the woodwork for the shop (such as the lamp on the wall below).

Midnight Blossom started out a few years ago as a wedding floral studio in the Herbage’s kitchen, but has since grown into a thriving business. “The overall goal is to create a place here, where we’ll have flowers by the stem and we’ll have things like that, but we want to try to have something you can’t find anywhere else,” Matt says. The couple goes on annual treks to find the stones that Amoreena uses in the pieces. “It really started with what I really like to do, which is go and find things, then make those into something interesting and different incorporating all the elements of the outdoors and bring them in in some sort of way,” she says.

Midnight Blossom (1101 NW Ballard Way) is open Wednesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Flower delivery is available in the greater Seattle area everyday but Sunday.