Kree’s Flowers

Kree was Born in Burma; her family are farmers. She moved to a refugee camp in Thailand when she was five year old.  When Kree was little she helped her grandma grow food for her family. She loves growing new things with her grandma. 

When Kree was a little girl living in a refugee camp in Thailand, she and her grandmother would go foraging in the forest for bamboo shoots and other plants to eat. She recalls the beautiful wild orchids hanging down from the forest trees, falling to the ground after a heavy rain. Kree and her grandmother would gather and bind the loose orchids to fallen tree branches with coconut fibers, and hang their living flower arrangements outside of their bamboo house.

This soon became a hobby. Kree began cultivating other cuttings and propagating flowers from neighbors, and eventually grew her passion to plant her own garden after she relocated to North Carolina. Kree’s favorite flowers to grow are lilies because their amazing fragrance reminds her of the Kaw Kai Paw flowers of Burma. 

Today, Kree happily grows a variety of 40 flowers in 20 beds on the land of the Karen Community Farm. She wants to bring joy and beauty to people’s everyday lives. Her time spent in the gardens of Thailand provided much of her knowledge of living off the fruits of the earth as well as growing her own food. She knows the soil and how to best grow food and unique flowers. She loves growing different combinations of flowers at her farm to showcase at weddings, birthdays, and numerous other events.

Kree is a wife and a mother of a two year old boy. She is a loving, and caring person and likes to help other people around her. She believes that everyone needs a smile on their face, and she enjoys sharing what she has with other people.