Cynthia Alexander is the sole owner, operator, and designer at Flora Tacoma. Her Flora story began in 2012, when she left a successful career as a musician and visual artist in the Philippines for a fresh start in the Pacific Northwest. As a lifelong lover of all types of flora, she jumped at the opportunity to try floral arranging as an apprentice, and eventually became a sought-after designer known for creating original arrangements. After being furloughed at the start of the pandemic, she took the chance to start her own business and launched Flora in December, 2020. Cynthia lives and works out of her private home studio in the Hilltop neighborhood of Tacoma with her dogs, Rosie and Violet.