The new shop in the courtyard near Rick & Ann’s Restaurant. “I always wanted to have my own brick-and-mortar shop in Berkeley,” she said. She had a flower cart at Mint Plaza from 2013-16 and did many arrangements for interiors, then worked from home for many years doing floral design. She’s also loved flowers since she was a kid, and in college studied environmental science and then landscape design, horticulture and floristry. “For me it’s like coming back and meant to be in so many ways,” Kelley-Farias said.įor one, Berkeley has been her home ever since she moved here with her family from San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, when she was 11. Now she’s 42 and has launched her own floral shop, Tulipán Floral, in the same storefront on Domingo Avenue. Courtesy: Tulipán Floralĭorothy Kelley-Farias got her first job, a two-month summer gig, at a Claremont florist when she was 16. Open Claremont New flower shop opens in spot where owner had her first job in 1997 Dorothy Kelley-Farias at her new shop, Tulipan Floral.

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