At Geranium Lake, we strive to make a positive impact on our community & environment. From running our shop van on Biodiesel to volunteering our time and talents, we’re all about giving back.

To Our Community

For the past two years, we have given our time each week as volunteers for Loaves and Fishes “Meals on Wheels” program. Each week our shop crew hits the streets to deliver meals to seniors in our neighborhood. We make an effort to donate both our time and resources to our community through organizations like Loaves and Fishes and the Downtown Chapel whenever we can. Around the holidays you might catch us toting extra Christmas trees and decorations to brighten up our local shelters and low-income housing properties. Throughout the year we donate flowers and arrangements for lots of charitable auctions.

To the Environment

At Geranium Lake Flowers we’re crazy about being green. Have you seen our Biodiesel Freightliner Sprinter van zipping around Portland? We love our Biodiesel van almost as much as the environment does. And, we drive it as little as possible by organizing our local trips to the Portland Flowers Market and other suppliers, and by trip chaining our deliveries to use the most direct routes possible, thus saving time and fuel. This has helped us to reduce our carbon footprint which is important to us.

We also participate in the Portland Composts program. We compost all qualifying materials from the flower shop in biodegradable bags, minimizing our ecological impact one step at a time.

At the beginning of 2010 we became certified by The City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability “Recyle at Work” program.  This means that our business has improved our recycling practices and reduced the amount of waste we produce by implementing all 5 of the City of Portland’s recycling steps!

We’re a local business, so it makes sense to support other local businesses. We have lots of one-of-a-kind growers that frequently appear at our door with the unusual and the inspiring. We also maintain a large organic city lot right in Portland where we grow many of our own flowers. We especially love and grow unusual peonies, lily of the valley, lilac, chocolate cosmos, our favorite dahlia varieties, garden roses and anything inspiring that we just can’t seem to find anywhere else.

Certain varieties of flowers are only readily available from overseas providers, so we still have our out of town suppliers in far away places like South America, New Zealand and Holland but we do have access to Organic certified roses from Ecuador and Holland to help offset the transportation issues.