Welcome!

Proclamation Flowers is a family-run flower farm and floral design studio in Wilmington, Illinois, growing hundreds of varieties of cut flowers in our acre, garden-like setting. We love this place and are so excited you found us - we’d love to share the flower farm with you!

See you in the flower field!

Yours in flowers,

The Francis family

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View fullsize ✨🌸 April 🌸✨ This photo is a snapshot of what’s blooming on the flower farm right now. 🤩The flowers are waking up, and we’re so excited to see their beautiful faces again. 💗🌸✨😍Every year, as soon as the trees start blooming, we start
View fullsize My kind of eclipse! 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕The ranunculus are looking really happy and I can’t wait to start harvesting it in a few weeks!! 😍😍😍 #ranunulus #flowers #blooms #illinoisflowers #illinoisflowerfarm #eclipse #proclamationflowers
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View fullsize It’s incredible to look at the baby plants under lights in the grow room and think, in October, you’ll look like this 🤯😍💗 I love the process of growing flowers. I love how literally diligence is rewarded with such lovely results and ho
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View fullsize The sunshine ☀️ has me reminiscing on this beautiful July wedding! Lauren + Taylor’s wedding was full of soft pastels, lush greenery, and beautiful focal flowers. They chose an indoor ceremony, given the heat (a good move), but you’d neve
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View fullsize Okay, full confession, I hoarded all of these flamingo feather celosia to myself last year and I’ll promise I’ll try to share this year. (But I am still keeping some! 😛) 🤩😍 #celosia #pink #pinkflowers #flowerfarm #illinoisflowers #illi
View fullsize It fills us with so much JOY when you + your photographers ask us about taking photos in the flower field! A highlight of the season is when @sarahjanehphoto and her mod squad visit the flower field (they always bring their puppies, and it’s ab
View fullsize Our 2024 wedding season begins in 2 weeks and I’m so so so excited!!!!! The venues, visions, vibes - to say nothing of the people, colors, and flowers. I cannot wait! We’re kicking it off with a sweet couple and a beautiful set of florals
View fullsize As the mom of 2 girls being raised on the flower farm, I hope they grow up to fight hard for what is beautiful, fair, good, and just. And especially for all of the women and children worldwide who lack access to education, food, safe housing, menstru
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View fullsize If the Facebook + Instagram outage made you sad this morning, there’s good news - you can make sure you never miss a single thing by signing up for our mailing list! We won’t spam you, will email you only when we have something important
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View fullsize The sky after a storm 🤌 The warm weather is making me excited for those stunning summer sunsets 😍🤩😎#flowerfield #flowerfarm #garden #illinoisflowers #illinoisflowerfarm #illinoisflowerfield #sunset #sunsetphotography #wilmington #proclamationflow
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View fullsize The perfect little star shaped blue flower - tweedia! She’s a tricky one to grow, but I had a nice little crop last year and am crossing my fingers she self-seeds this year (I also have a tray of it growing just in case). Tweedia is in the milk
View fullsize Being outside in the sunshine has been such a joy these last few days. ☀️ We are counting down the days til daylight savings time, and trying to chip away every day at the mountain of tasks that lead to the flower field looking like this! 🤩 Yay for

About Us

Katie and Chris Francis are the owners and operators of Proclamation Flowers Flower Farm. Katie is the lead grower and floral designer; Chris is the business guru and fix-it guy making sure everything fits, works, and is properly accounted. We take orders from our little bosses (in human and puppy form), and receive amazing assistance from Chris’ parents.