I’m Kamille Scellick and my love of flowers grew quite unexpectedly. Being a cook & baker for most of my life, it’s where I would find enjoyment, solitude & creativity, which was shared with others. This love grew into cooking classes, a long-time food & hospitality blog, ‘Redeeming the Table,’ and too many meals to count. 

However, in the summer of 2014, my life was unraveled by the death of my older brother Willy, due to a heroin overdose. We had just moved into our five-acre farmhouse with dreams of a lush garden, while raising our girls in idyllic country life.  Yet, the grief which followed Willy’s death also led to my love of cooking & loving others through it to diminish. This song which had been easy to sing before could barely be mustered. 

Fast forward, I began to find solace in planting vegetables in the garden and getting my hands dirty in the soil. I then found myself at my beloved Joe’s Garden and saw some dahlia tubers. I bought four. I contacted a friend of mine who grew dahlias and I asked her what should I do? She and her amazing go-to spirit came over with extra tubers in hand and a shovel to dig.

That garden was intended for pumpkins, corn, & zucchini…and four dahlia tubers. However, it suddenly became something different. As I was encouraging my three young daughters at the time with digging holes (like my friend suggested), I turned around and my friend had already dug hole after hole after hole. All I could think was, “So I guess we’re not doing pumpkins?” Little did I know that the garden that was intended to feed my family's belly would end up feeding my soul. 

Before this moment, I saw flowers as something extra, or to help pollinators. It was at this moment that flowers became salve to my soul. Flowers were the rainbow after the storm.

Out of death & mourning, redemption was born in the garden. 

This is where Kamille’s Flowers was born, and why my business is about creating space to cultivate bloom & soul. Just as good food feeds our belly, it is a good meal, offered with a welcoming hospitality, which nourishes both belly & soul. Kamille’s Flowers seeks to do the same.

Kamille’s Flowers is a small-scale flower farm specializing in all things dahlias. The farm is located in the bounty of the Pacific Northwest in Whatcom County on the outskirts of Bellingham, WA. I take great delight in curating specialty dahlias to offer for wholesale, Dahlia CSA subscriptions, and sell dahlia tubers. 

I’ve been regarded as a leader and innovator in the dahlia world and I strive to balance informative decision making with a healthy dose of grace & humor. I love to teach others about dahlias, from holding online classes to in-person workshops.  I am in the beginning stages of hybridizing dahlias of her own, which you can read more about here. Outside of growing dahlias, I am most importantly a wife to Ben who is the funniest person I know, and a mama to three wonderful daughters (two of whom I homeschool).