About Me
I get it from my mama. And I know it's ancestral. The rose is even my namesake. I'm Gina Rose Baiamonte which translates to Queen of the Rose where the Bay meets the Mountain.
I’m originally from Texas, of Sicilian, Serbian, and Mediterranean descent and currently work on Ohlone land in what we now know as San Raphael, CA.
Here's (a part) of my story:
I felt the calling to flowers years ago when I was living a different life. Always taking classes for fun. One day I thought, “let’s get certified in floral design.” I loved every second. Graduated and in alignment, the events came rolling in. After freelancing for other florists, I booked my first wedding. And everything has fallen into place since.
Flowers are works of art; each petal with its own symbolism, healing, and language. Now immersed, I had to learn more, I apprenticed with Francisca Santibez of Plant Spirit Talk and studied Shamanic Rituals and the Healing Powers of Plants and Flowers. For the past 5 years, I work deeply with onyandas of the Shipibo lineage in the Peruvian Amazon, doing dieta work and studying Amazonian Plant Healing. I have also had the honor to work with Celtic raised, Lakota-adopted, Sarah McLean Bicknell, “Grandmother Sarah” in ceremony, dream-work, ancestral constellation and am in the process of undertaking her spiritual facilitating course.
The combined magic of my apprenticeship, amazonian travels, being a dream practitioner, astrologer, being a certified YTT, and a reiki master has allowed something new to be born. I am awake to my magic.
I am an artist, a healer, a guide and a seer. There is so much enchantment working with these plants, my offerings come in so much more than just the visual. I see the plants and I see you. Let’s work together to create your dream vision while diving deep into your soul.
I’m Dani, Bloom’s Studio Manager.
And Gina’s right hand woman. I’m a true Bay Native, born in Oakland CA. I’ve always been a flower lover but I fell more madly after a partner of mine grew them in our yard and I’d turn them into arrangements. I fell for not only their beauty, but origin and the hard work it took to care for them with day in and out. I started going to the SF Flower Mart before work at my Esthetics job and making arrangements for the Spa on my own dime. I’ve always worked in making beauty, flowers introduced me to a new realm of it. Soon after I began working with Floral Designers as an intern to learn the ropes and after so much experience, I became a Freelancer. When I met Gina I had just finished my Yoga Teacher Training so I was very intentional about all I was putting my heart into and after sitting with her I remember thinking “This woman is doing floral design with intention and so intuitively and I need to be apart of it. I want to work here.” I saw a Cacao Ceremony on Gina’s website and we have been co-workers and friends ever since.
Alchemy
Together we work to find your medicine, your healing, and what you need to release. Let the flora do the work; from blessings to cleanses, to mandalas, to breath. The flowers tell me what they want to do and I channel the creations.
Want to work together?
Let’s consult. Come by the studio or hop on a call. We’ll pull some cards and talk. If it flows from both sides, let’s make magic happen.