The Maryland event florist, 52, opened her Laurel, MD flower shop, The Blooming Bohemian, three years ago after decades of working for other people.
Thankfully, she’s been blessed, she said. Beyond blessed, having had a steady flow of business since the day she opened her doors, she said.
In Fall 2023, producers from Netflix’s “Love Is Blind” contacted her and asked if she would do the floral arrangements for the Washington DC-based Season 7 weddings.
She did, and with the episodes expected to air this month on the mega-streaming platform, Sallee wants locals to know that she’s right here in their backyard. And that anything is possible.
“If I had seen somebody that looked like me who told me owning my own business was achievable, I would’ve done it 20 years ago,” Sallee said.
So now, she strives to be that person for others.
Sallee was raised in Missouri where her father taught agronomy at the University of Missouri, where Sallee often accompanied him to greenhouses. As a teen, Sallee’s family moved to Boston, MA, when her dad took a job at the Generics Institute as a plant genetics scientist in Cambridge, through a partnership with Harvard University.