10/07/2026
Welcome Jessica and Bryan, owners of the Lamar Greenhouse & Florist (est 1882!!). If you have a few minutes, read their moving journey of landing in Lamar!
One of my favorite things about the work I do is that houses, land and businesses are rarely just real estate. There are whole lives and stories behind them. Sometimes a move really is the beginning of a completely unexpected new chapter.
I’m so grateful this particular chapter brought Jessica & Bryan to Lamar. 🌻 Your business means far more to this community than simply being a beautiful place to buy flowers, plants and gifts. Join me Saturday at their Fall Open House!
🌻 We thought it was probably time to introduce ourselves…
For those we haven’t had the chance to meet yet, we’re Jessica & Bryan, the new owners of Lamar Greenhouse & Florist.
One of the most unexpected parts of owning a flower shop has been getting to meet so many people and families in this community. In a pretty short amount of time, we’ve gotten little glimpses into many of your lives.
We’ve helped celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, new babies and weddings. We’ve also made flowers for hospital rooms and funerals, heard stories about people you love and people you miss, and sometimes just stood at the counter and talked about life.
It’s been interesting and, at times, surprisingly healing for us.
Because loss is a very big part of our story, too.
I was born right here in Lamar. I moved away as a baby and grew up in Oklahoma, but Lamar was never completely gone from my life. My dad has always lived here, and I spent many summers coming back to be with my brother and sister.
By the time Bryan and I met in Oklahoma, we had both already lived a lot of life. He had grown up in Colorado and was well into what would become a 16+ year career in high-end wood flooring.
I was a single mom to two pretty incredible boys with significant disabilities.
So when Bryan chose me, he was choosing a whole family.
Caleb and Jack had a rare neurological disease called Vanishing White Matter Disease. Our life included wheelchairs, feeding tubes, doctors, therapies and more hospital stays than I could ever count.
Bryan stepped right into that life with us.
He became their dad in all the ways that mattered. And while our family certainly knew hard things, that isn’t what defined our life together.
There were ridiculous birthday parties, zoo trips, soccer games, bowling, vacations, music, jokes, adventures and a whole lot of laughter.
There was so much life in our life.
We lost Caleb from Covid in November 2022 at 19 years old. Just four months later, we lost Jack in March 2023 at 16.
After that, neither of us really knew what our life was supposed to look like anymore.
For almost two years, we traveled, searched, grieved and tried to figure out where we belonged and what came next.
Eventually, that search brought us back to Lamar.
Family was a huge part of that decision. My sister was Caleb’s favorite person in the entire world. They had an incredibly special relationship, and after losing the boys, being closer to family felt important.
When we had the opportunity to buy a farmhouse on 20 acres right next door to my sister, we took it.
We came to Lamar hoping to slow down, be near family and maybe find some sense of purpose in a life that suddenly looked very different from the one we had planned.
We definitely did not predict that purpose might involve owning a flower shop or a greenhouse. 😂
But somehow, Lamar Greenhouse & Florist became part of our next chapter.
We’re still learning. We’re trying new things, making mistakes, growing plants, killing a few plants 😂, rearranging things for the hundredth time and slowly figuring out what we want this place to become.
The flower shop itself has surprised me the most.
Flowers put you right in the middle of people’s lives.
Sometimes we’re helping someone celebrate one of their happiest days. Sometimes someone walks through our door on one of their hardest. And sometimes they tell us the story behind the flowers they’re ordering—and that story stays with us long after they leave.
Grief has changed the way we understand those moments.
We know how much it matters when someone remembers a loved one’s name. When someone tells a story. When someone acknowledges a birthday. Sometimes, it matters simply to have someone give you space to talk about a person you love who isn’t here anymore.
I think that has changed the way we look at what we do here.
You’ll hear us talk about Caleb and Jack. You’ll see pieces of them around the greenhouse—Caleb’s wooden pumpkins and probably lots of other little things along the way.
We aren’t trying to move on from them.
We’re figuring out how to move forward with them.
So if we haven’t met yet, hi. We’re Jessica & Bryan. ❤️
We’re still figuring out this whole greenhouse thing—and, if we’re being truthful, we’re still figuring out the whole what-do-we-do-with-the-rest-of-our-lives thing, too.
But we’ve really enjoyed getting to know so many of you, hearing your stories and being trusted with some pretty important moments in your lives.
Thank you for welcoming us and supporting our little business.
We’re glad we’re here. 🌻
— Jessica & Bryan
Lamar Greenhouse & Florist
