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Wedding Flowers
Let us help you bring your vision to life for your wedding or event. We provide design services to make your flowers stress-free. For the creative DIY bride, we supply buckets of flowers according to your colors.
Event Corsage, Boutonniere, and Hand-Tied Bouquets
We are happy to design to your outfit! Use our online order form to give us an idea of your colors, or give us a call to talk out your ideas. Prices in our form are for designers-choice flowers in your colors, specific floral requests with special orders require a quote.
Thinking of You
We are happy to design and deliver local cut flowers to the greater Story City area. We can design to fit most budgets or check our online catalog for ideas or to order today. We deliver within 24 hours Monday-Saturday, same-day delivery available if ordered before Noon.
Specialty Design Styles
Let us stretch our flower fingers for your project. Give us a call to share your flower vision!
Celebrations and Memorials
We provide unique and meaningful arrangements to celebrate those dearest relationships in life.We deliver within 24 hours Monday-Saturday, same-day delivery available if ordered before Noon.
Casket and Standing Sprays
Give us a call or brows our online store to order celebration of life flowers. We design and coordinate with Soderstrum, Adams, and more area funeral homes to deliver and set up your flowers.
A different kind of florist in central iowa…
At Friend’s Flowers, we grow flowers so we can provide you with the freshest and best quality specialty blooms. We love doing floral designs with our specialty products also source traditional wholesale blooms be able to provide arrangements year-round . Our farming practices support diversity of wildlife and soil health. Let us provide you our your loved one with flowers today.
Ames Main Street Farmers Market
Find our locally grown farm-fresh flowers on Main Street in Ames Saturday mornings May - October. We have a passion to produce flowers that are local, ethical, and beautiful. With 10+ years of growing under our belts, we know that our Market customers are the foundation of our business and support our mission every week without fail!
Visit us downtown and make your own bouquet or let us make one for you. We pack all our flowers with water so they don’t dry out while you do your Saturday errands. Preordered flowers can also picked up at the market in Ames.
Try a market subscription to get flowers delivered or to pick them up once a month at the market through the summer, it makes a perfect gift!
Pick Your Own Flowers open July-October
Come outside and enjoy our garden.
Come to our farm and enjoy the bumblebees, hummingbirds, and sunshine while making your very own creation, field to vase.
U-Pick hours: Closed for the season. See you in 2025!
Tuesday - Saturday, 8a-12p
Or by appointment - if we’re outside we’re open.
What to bring:
Your favorite clipper (or borrow one of ours)
Your clean bucket to bring flowers home in, or your own vases (or buy vases from us)
We have water available on site.
What to wear:
Wear clothing suitable for a farm. We have wet grass, uneven ground, and sharp clippers.
Sturdy footwear, long pants and a hat for sun and insect protection if you have sensitive skin.
Prices are tiered based on the bouquet size. We accept cash or Venmo for payment. We will often be working in the field alongside you if you have questions.
We were inspired to start our business by a pick-your-own flower farm, and we are excited to have reached the point where we can offer cut-your-own too. We hope your experience in our garden will bless you as it has blessed us!
Friend’s Flowers Delivery
Friend’s Flowers delivers to private residences and organizations in a radius of towns in central Iowa including Story City, Ames, Roland, Gilbert, Jewell, Randall, Ellsworth, and Radcliffe.
Please provide a contact phone number for your recipient so we can ensure they get our perishable product in the best condition possible!
Orders placed by noon are eligible for same-day delivery.
Farm Team
Naomi Friend
Naomi is the creative design behind Friend’s Flowers. Though she started the business as an artist with a gardening habit, this has morphed to a full time growing and floral design passion as the business grew since 2013. Now she runs the growing and daily task schedule at the farm, and heads up design work with daily flower orders and deliveries, weddings, funerals, and event work.
Andrew Friend
You can’t take the farmer out of the farm boy- and Andrew is here to prove it. Raised on the family flower farm in Washington State (Friend’s Flowers!) farming is his thing and the flowers on our farm are his charges. Though most of his daylight hours are spent working as an engineer through CIRAS at Iowa State, his passion remains everything flower farm. Our son Peter is not far behind him in love of dirt, tractors, and the mechanics!
Madison Royer
Returning for the summer of 2025, we’re thrilled that Madison will be making hand tied bunches and helping our customers at the Saturday Ames Main Street Farmers Market and working on the farm weeding, planting, and watering through the work week! This ambitious girl is going places after she graduates from ISU Horticulture Program in Spring 2026.
Kara Levi
Joining the team for the summer of 2025, Kara is a landscaping and horticulture enthusiast at Iowa State University graduating in 2026. She will be a mainstay at the Saturday Farmers market this season. Her cheerful and outgoing nature is a pleasure to have around the farm during the work week! Say “hi” and let her help you out to brighten your weekly table with flowers.
Common Delivery Locations:
Story City:
Timberland Village, The Households of Bethany Life, Cedar Place, Bible Faith Church, Bethel Lutheran Church, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Grace United Methodist Church, Harvest Evangelical Free Church, Immanuel Lutheran Church, St. Petri Lutheran, Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church.
Ames:
Accura HealthCare of Ames, Bickford of Ames, Green Hills Health Care Center, Heartwood House, Independence Village of Ames, Keystone of Ames, Maggie’s Place at Northridge Village, Northridge Village, The Rose of Ames, The Waterford at Ames, Village Cooperative of Ames, Windsor Oaks Senior Living. Ames Church of the Nazarene, Foursquare Church, Friends Meeting, Ames Jewish Congregation, Ames Mennonite Church, Ames Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Ames United Church of Christ, Ames United Methodist Church, Ames Vineyard Church, Ames Wesley Foundation, Ames Foursquare Church, Ames Grand Avenue Baptist Church, Ames Korean United Methodist Church, Ames Memorial Lutheran Church, Ames Northminster Presbyterian Church, Ames North Grand Christian Church, Ames St. Cecilia Catholic Church, Ames St. John’s by the Campus Episcopal Church, Ames St. Paul Lutheran Church, Ames St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, Ames Stonebrook Community Church, Ames Trinity Christian Reformed Church, Ames United Church of Christ, Ames Willow Creek Church of the Open Bible, Ames Westside Church of Christ, Ames Unity Church of Ames, Ames Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Ames LifePointe Church, Ames Lord of Life Lutheran Church, Ames New Life United Pentecostal Church, Ames Oak Hills Covenant Church, Ames Oakwood Road Church, Ames ReNew Community Church, Ames Trinity United Methodist Church, Ames University Lutheran Congregation, Ames University Baptist Church, Ames Body of Christ Worship Center, Ames Christ Community Church, Ames CrossRoad Baptist Church, Ames First Assembly of God, Ames First Baptist Church, Ames First Christian Church, Ames First Evangelical Free Church, Ames First United Methodist Church, Ames Friendship Baptist Church, Ames Grand Avenue Baptist Church, Ames Harvest Vineyard Church, Ames Heartland Baptist Church, Ames Korean Christian Reformed Church, Ames Korean United Methodist Church, Ames Lord of Life Lutheran Church, Ames Memorial Lutheran Church, Ames Napier United Methodist Church, Ames New Life Church, Ames North Grand Christian Church, Ames Northminster Presbyterian Church, Ames Oakwood Road Church, Ames St. Cecilia Church, Ames St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church, Ames St. John’s by the Campus Episcopal Parish, Ames St. Paul Lutheran Church, Ames St. Thomas Aquinas Church and Catholic Student Center, Ames Seventh Day Adventist Church, Ames Stonebrook Community Church, Ames Trinity Christian Reformed Church, Ames Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ames, Ames United Church of Christ Congregational, Ames Unity Church of Ames, Ames University Baptist Church SBC, Ames University Lutheran Congregation and Student Center, Ames Westside Church of Christ, Ames Willow Creek Church Open Bible
Roland:
Bergen Lutheran Church, Salem Lutheran Church.
Randall:
Elim Lutheran Church.