Where did the name Celadon & Celery come from?
My parents live in Belize, and my mom and I were sitting around one afternoon, and I love, love, love, love the word celadon, and the actual color of celadon. If you know anything about what celadon is—it’s pottery from China—it looks exactly like the ocean in Belize. So celadon is the same color as the ocean in Belize where my family lives, and celery is the same color as celadon, and they’re both green. It was a cool and chic way of saying we’re a green company without saying “Bess Wyrick’s green eco-company of flowers.” I thought it was a clever way to make a statement of being eco- and green without having to say “eco” or “green.” That’s how that came about—I chose a food like celery because we use a lot of edibles in our arrangements and décor. It really fit with my beliefs about sustainability. What makes the company green? We compost, and we recycle as well, and our flowers come from local and sustainable farmers in the New York/New Jersey/Massachusetts area. And when we can’t g
