Aug. 2, 2024

A new business is blooming for longtime friends and colleagues in the health care community.

Tara Lothspeich and Cindy Jass opened 605 Petals & Pines earlier this year and began selling flowers this summer.

Lothspeich and Jass are health care professionals who have been friends since middle school. This past year, they decided it was time to bring their shared passion for bouquets and florals to the community.

“We started with Christmas porch pots this past December,” Lothspeich said. “We did a porch pot class and used evergreen branches from my friend’s property. That was when it started taking off.”

This summer, the two business owners have been growing flowers on about 2.000 square feet of land outside Sioux Falls.

“We don’t have a storefront but rather focus on growing and then bringing the flowers to make bouquet bars,” Lothspeich said. “We partner with different businesses to host bouquet-making events and teach people how to make flower arrangements.”

605 Petals & Pines plans to partner with local breweries, AR Workshop and local wineries.

“We love that we can bring our flowers to the community in a different way,” Jass said. “At the breweries and wineries folks can listen to music, hang out and learn how to bring flower arrangements together.”

With the recent flooding, Jass said their flowers are a little behind, and they lost some of their harvest. Regardless, they have plenty of flowers and have a few upcoming events sold out already, Jass said.

“We are also always available for folks to hire us to come to their parties. We also do bridal arrangements, ” Lothspeich said. “We have flowers for any reason at all.”

Events are listed on the business’ Facebook page and 605petalsandpines.com, Lothspeich said.

At a bouquet bar event, 605 Petals & Pines will bring the supplies, flowers and vases for purchase.

“Our flowers will vary by season,” Jass said. “We pretty much have flowers from July until the first frost. Eventually, we are hoping to do high tunnels to help them last longer.”

Looking to the future, the owners said they hope to do more porch pots, wreaths and dried flowers.

“It’s been a learning curve for us as we are new business owners,” Lothspeich said. “But we are happy with how it’s going so far and getting to bring something new to the community.”