Meet the Team
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Lyndsey Moreland is a non-profit professional, flower farmer and floral designer living and working in Orlando, FL. She grew up in and inspired by her mother's gardens and has loved growing and working with flowers ever since. With a lifetime of her hands squarely in the dirt and over a decade of floral design experience, Lyndsey is passionate about providing organic flowers and sustainable design services in her community.​
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She studied history and art at the College of the Holy Cross and later earned her certificate in horticulture from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. She is also a graduate of the Floret Workshop and proud member of the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers. She loves the sweetly scented snapdragons and marigolds the most, and at home can be found tending to her old roses.
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Lyndsey has lived and nurtured flowers in many different parts of the country. Through it all Florida has always been home, and she is proud to be part of the flower farming community in her beloved Sunshine State.
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Scotty Moreland is a heavy equipment mechanic by trade, and flower farmer by marriage. An avid plant and garden lover in his own right, Scotty is involved with and actively supports every facet of the farm, from tilling and bed prep, fixing irrigation, sowing seeds, planting and harvesting. He's even been known to jump into a design session or two, and is an expert at installing floral pillars, arches, meadows and all day-of site work.​ His mechanical background makes him a pro at fixing tillers, coolers, and all our hard-working tools of the trade.
At home, Scotty's favorite flowers are the dahlias, and he can often be found tending to his many plants with pure joy and curious enthusiasm. He also loves his fruit trees, and nurtures a large collection of citrus as well as yuccas, agaves and mangaves.
Like Lyndsey, even though Scotty has lived all over the country, he enjoys growing flowers in Central Florida and is excited to continue to learn/hone his skills.
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Lyndsey and Scotty live in the heart of College Park, Orlando with their yellow lab, lead flower boy and chief bucket inspector Mighty, and their black cat and head flower nibbler Spooky.
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Learn more about Secret Garden Guru's offerings below.
Experience the Farm
Secret Garden Guru is an urban flower farm located in College Park, Orlando. The farm itself is comprised of two private farm plots, each set up on less than a tenth of an acre of land. The primary growing seasons are spring and fall, celebrating a wide variety of annual and perennial flowers. The farm produces thousands of stems per season from seed to bloom, with priority use going toward seasonal CSA memberships and sustainable floral design for small weddings and intimate elopements.
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The inspiration for the name Secret Garden Guru came from the classic children's story The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, a long-time favorite of the farm's founder Lyndsey. In the novel, the main character Mary cultivates a hidden garden, bringing it back to life. The notion of seeing something where there was once nothing has always resonated with Lyndsey and became the ethos behind starting the farm and much of her educational work within her community. After all, to plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
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As FHB writes - "...if you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden." We hope our locally farmed flowers and farm offerings help you see it, too.
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Photo by Headshot Queen Orlando
Photo by Headshot Queen Orlando
Photo by Headshot Queen Orlando
Photo by Headshot Queen Orlando
Read More
Secret Garden Guru is exceptionally proud to have been featured in both local and national publications highlighting our unique hyper-local approach to urban flower farming and passion for sharing this work with our community. Read more below!
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As seen in the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers (ASCFG) Spring 2025 Cut Flower Quarterly: Growing Flowers in the City​
As seen in The Community Paper, August 2024 Edition: The secret behind a growing business​
