meet wury
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Wury Glende is the owner and designer of Graceful Garland Co, a boutique floral design studio and a micro-flower farm.
She started her love for flowers working at a floral shop, while majoring in Sociology and minoring in Art at UC San Diego. In 2010, she moved back home to the Bay Area to help plant a church in San Jose. A couple of months later, her sweet boyfriend proposed and within a year, she designed her very own bridal bouquet.
Wury has over eight years of floral design experience with a unique lean to seasonality from growing her own flowers, but also an artful approach to design. At the beginning of 2020, she began to dabble in growing ranunculus, anemones, cosmos, and sunflowers inspired by flower farmers and growers like Erin of Floret. Seeing flowers sway in the wind on a flower farm has always stopped her in tracks. Since then she can’t stop buying tulip bulbs, dahlia tubers, unique floral seeds, and plants to incorporate into her floral designs. Tending and growing flowers from seed has impacted her floral design approach that is fresh, seasonal, organic, and yet romantic.
Wury is married to Garrett and blessed with three growing kids that are about to outgrow her very soon. She moved to Oregon in July 2025 and is excited to start a new chapter in the PNW. She grows flowers on her micro-flower farm and designs from her home studio in Beaverton, Oregon. She also still provides wedding design services in the Bay Area. Wury loves visiting flower farms, going to farmer’s markets, singing, hiking with her family, making focaccia, playing sports, and finding the flakiest croissants & best lattes.
