About — Flowers in Flight

ABOUT US

Flowers In Flight. We are a family owned business that began in the spring of 1984 as the original flower cart on Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon. For the first 20 years of operation, the 3 founding sisters worked to elate and educate clients and recipients alike with the beauty of fresh flowers. The popularity of the cart on the Square led to another in the Portland Building and then a small shop at the Skidmore Fountain Building . In 1988 we consolidated all operations in our present location inside the historic George Lawrence Building at SW First and Oak in downtown Portland. The defining elements of “flowers in flight” floral art remain simplicity, elegance and the unique qualities of locally grown flora. We are now in our 27th year and have for the past 6 years been owned and operated by 2 of the original 3 sisters: Mary Anne Huseby, floral artist extraordinaire and Pat Hutchins, plant lady and watercolor artist. Cheri Huseby-Jones moved with her husband to Washington state where she pursues her other passion–public education.

ABOUT OUR WORK

From the outset, we have focused on and promoted locally produced flowers, plants, pottery and glass. Recently, we have decided to focus on containers that are recycled in addition to the case packs we buy for event work. We are not new to the local and sustainable mantra that we are so delighted to see taking root now. In addition to shopping with our fellow Portland area growers, we produce our enclosure and greeting cards from Pat’s original water color paintings. These cards are reproduced using environmentally sensitive papers and inks in small family owned print shops in Portland. You will find the card images on our website where you may choose to buy them or select one in the enclosure size to accompany your floral art order. The design work of Flowers In Flight is unmistakable. Mary Anne’s color sense and amazing touch with balancing various flowers, greens, berries, pods and other natural elements keeps our work in a class by itself. Honestly, in a room full of floral arrangements, the presentations of Flowers In Flight are always easily identified as outstanding. From the single stem on your kitchen window sill that you designed from a stem you bought at Happy Hours For Flowers (our half price sale that happens every Friday between 3 and 6p.m.) to the wedding or special celebration of your dreams, Flowers In Flight offers you the finest assortment of fresh local flora in this city. Numerous area architects, attorneys, advertising agencies, medical/dental offices,and salons avail themselves of our weekly arrangement services. With this decor option, a fresh piece of floral art arrives at your destination each Monday morning. The delivery will be different from anything you have received recently and will be designed in one of our unique vessels. When the new flowers arrive, we pick up the vase from the previous week. You do not pay for the container, so the presentation is always amazing, tailored to your environment and quite affordable.

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SOME OF OUR CLIENTS

1. Rose Quarter
2. Alpenrose Dairy
3. Kush Handknotted Carpets
4. Azumano Travel
5. Atiyeh Bros
6. Robert Becker Interior Design
7. The Bike Gallery
8. Boyd Coffee Co.
9. Miller Paint
10. Brailey & Graham Auto Mall
11. Town & Country Dealerships
12. C C & L Roofing
13. Radio Cab
14. Specht Development
15. Environments
16. Rose City Label
17. Rodgers Marine Electronics
18. Ruth’s Chris Steak House
19. Salon Essex
20. Prima Salon
21. Security Signs
22. Shaffer Fine Art
23. THA Architecture
24. The Nines
25. Umpqua Holdings
26. VanDuyns Chocolates
27. Walker / Macy
28. Jake’s Catering @ The Governor Hotel
29. Jake’s Famous Crawfish
30. Leopold Ketel Partners
31. Intel
32. MAC Club
33. Macy’s
34. Nordstrom Distribution Center
35. Magna Corp
36. Matrix Networks
37. McCormick & Schmick’s
    Harborside at the Marina
38. Milliman, Inc.
39. Nike
40. Norlift of Oregon
41. Pacific Lumber & Truss
42. PacifiCorp
43. Portland Trailblazers
44. Entercom Radio
45. Comcast Spotlight
46. Fred Meyer HR
47. GBD Architects
48. Gerding, Edlen
49. US Bank Trust & Estates
50. Hanna Andersson
51. Harry’s Fresh Foods
52. Western Architectural
53. Hosmer Chiropractic
54. Hotel Vintage Plaza
55. Housing Authority of PDX
56. Port of PDX
57. Northwest Natural
58. Iberdrola Renewables
59. Integrated Services, Inc.
60. Brown & Caldwell
61. Kirk Hay & Tom Arenz of Browstein Rask Attorneys
62. Paulson Law Firm
63. Lawrence Matasar, Attorney at Law
64. Paulson Investment
65. Crowe Foreign Services
66. Culver Glass
67. Downtown Dental Associates
68. Dr. Robert Leon
69. Harrison Dental
70. Dunn, Carney, Allen, Higgins & Tongue
71. Ecotech
72. Ecotrust
73. Wall & Wall
74. Dolores Winningstad
75. Xenium Resources
76. ZGF Architects
77. Ziba Designs