Flower Bar Bakersfield

This year I met Janice from Flower Bar here in Bakersfield.  I was immediately drawn to her style and I fell in love with her shop.  When I met with Janice in person she was so pleasant and kind and working with her was a bliss.

In 2007 Janice began to do floral arrangements for small weddings in her garage and later in March 2010 she opened her full service storefront.  The name Flower Bar came from combining her love of flowers and going to bars.  She enjoyed the idea of customers coming in, sitting at a bar, and watching her create their florals.

The funny thing is that Janice didn’t even know that she’d want to begin a floral business.  She took a floral design class in college, then shortly after she began to receive requests for arrangements and the business just began to organically grow.  In 2015 she finally decided to focus on it full time.  Some of her personal favorite styles are natural garden with loads of greenery and textural with a muted color palette. Janice enjoys having the ability to constantly develop in business.  To her, there is always something new to try or learn as this industry is always revolving.  She has weekly team meetings with her employees and a large part of the meetings consist of challenging the traditional florist model.  Every week they come up with new ideas-some things stick and some things fail miserably she says, but they learn the most from the things that didn’t work.  It is her team that inspires her daily, they all have different styles, knowledge, and personalities that they bring to the table.  Janice wants her clients and potential clients to know that they create happiness through arrangements designed with fresh California grown flowers.  Something she takes great pride in.

When Janice is not working, she enjoys spending time with her four year old son either camping, hiking, fishing or just simply letting him be a boy and explore.  She admires artists like Winston Flowers in Boston because they have multiple storefronts, a unique style, and so much personality for a large floral operation. In five years Janice aspires to own multiple store fronts throughout Bakersfield or one very large store.  When I asked Janice if she had any advice or words for those wanting to begin this type of business, this is what she had to say, “There will be times when you feel completely defeated, like you can’t go another day-but keep pushing, it gets better…until one day you find yourself enjoying the things you used to struggle with the most.”

For more information, contact Flower Bar.