The Gardener

Our photographer-turned-gardener, Eleanor Lonardo, discovered her passion for horticulture shortly after moving to the Bay Area in 2014. After studying bio-intensive farming, her and her husband decided to turn their backyard into a flower farm.

Eleanor’s floral arrangements have been described as organic and unconventional, natural and spacious - an unexpected encounter with a sweeping wildflower field. The majority of her flowers and foliage are sourced directly from her own gardens, and other seasonal flowers are provided by working closely with local flower farms.

The Borrowed Garden offers wholesale flowers to local florists, annual plant sales, as well as bouquets and arrangements for your loved ones.

The Gardens

Tucked away in the hills of Crockett, California is are many small gardens spanning across two lots, creating our 1/4 acre flower farm.

These gardens have taught us to love our hard-packed clay soil, to appreciate the rains when they come, and to remember the big, fluffy dahlias it gives us every summer.

We are just renting this space, so we call it the borrowed garden.