Chateau Monette Flower Farm

Visitors to Chateau Monette Flower Farm, at 6248 West 9600 South in the hills of West Mountain above Payson, check in first at the flower shop. Someone there points them toward the fields and the greenhouses. The shop stands above the lower field, which is in bloom through the summer. Its shelves hold what the farm makes from its own flowers: floral-infused lotions, body oils and bath salts, necklaces, resin art, home decor, and real-touch flowers. Visitors bring their own clippers and buckets. Anyone who forgets can buy them at the counter.

Below the shop are two greenhouses, filled with whatever is in bloom and hung with café lights, and beyond them the cut-flower fields. The family lives on 80 acres. In the owner’s listing with the Utah agritourism directory, Shannon DeHart writes that she farms three of those acres with the greenhouses. “Every year we add on to our field Flowers!” she writes there. The farm is open to visitors from spring through fall, by appointment or on announced days.

Fifteen stems for thirty dollars

The u-pick events are announced on the farm’s Instagram account. The website says they generally fall on weekends and are posted on Mondays. The farm has also run u-pick nights on Thursday evenings from 6 to 8. Those nights need no reservation. Cars park by the greenhouses and the shop, each visitor cuts 15 stems for $30, and Venmo is accepted. The staff tell visitors which flowers are in bloom. The website suggests making it “a date night, GNO, or a sister outing.”

What is in bloom depends on the month. Studio 5, the KSL television program, reported in April 2023 that the farm grows hundreds of varieties: “ranunculus and anemones in the spring, dahlias in the summer, and beautiful heirloom chrysanthemums in the Fall.” The same flowers go out in bouquets, wedding work, and wholesale orders to florists. During the season the farm has supplied fresh bouquets every weekend to Wall Brothers’ “The Barn” on Main Street in Spanish Fork.

Pumpkins on October 3

The workshops run through the year. There are floral centerpiece workshops in spring and summer, a pumpkin floral workshop in October, a dried-floral wreath workshop in November, and in December the Christmas wreath workshop, which the farm’s directory listing calls “everyone’s favorite.” The website prices workshops at $75 a person. It puts the ideal group at 20 to 30 people and says the farm can take up to 50. The October 2026 pumpkin workshop was posted at $95.

That pumpkin workshop was held October 3, 2026, at 5:30 in the evening. The farm’s announcement laid out the order of the night. Guests started with “spooky treats and drinks.” Then they walked the flower farm to cut flowers and choose a color scheme, and brought the blooms back to the tables to arrange inside a pumpkin. One guest posting beforehand told others to wear their “Witchy outfits.” In the days before, DeHart posted the small pumpkins she had grown, which she planned to paint gold and dust with glitter for the table. On the eve of the event she posted the finished Halloween tablescape.

Guests write about these evenings as much as about the flowers. After an earlier workshop, Tonia Jardine wrote that she had “never made such a pretty arrangement and that’s coming from a girl with a pink flower fridge in her front entryway.” She mentioned the gift shop and “3 different kinds of grape juice made with grapes from her vineyard.” Another visitor described hanging baskets of dried flowers.

The vineyard holds evening workshops of its own, lit by candles and set with food. The first fall vineyard workshop of the 2026 season sold out. Photographs of a September 2026 vineyard evening showed a Provence tablescape with French baskets and dried florals. DeHart wrote that all the florals had come from her farm, harvested the season before. A local baker made bite-sized cupcakes for that night, decorated in the vineyard’s colors with tiny buttercream flowers. DeHart has posted floating blooms in a water fountain at an event, with the comment that “every event definitely needs flowers in their water fountain.”

The farm’s Instagram profile reads “Where women gather & flowers grow.” In a September 2026 post DeHart wrote, “I am the Farmer and the Florist.” Another post that month ended with an invitation: “Come gather with us. Bring your friends. Bring your family. There is a chair for you here.”

The shop building also serves as an event hall. It is heated and air-conditioned, hung with chandeliers, and has a prep kitchen and a guest restroom. Outside are four pergolas and a metal arch for weddings. It is rented for corporate events, luncheons, and small weddings, and the farm holds farm-to-table dinners there.

A few hundred lavender plants

DeHart writes that she has gardened all her life. She began sharing what she grew with others in 2012. “I’ve always loved flowers and the joy that they bring to others so I started by growing a few hundred lavender plants my first year,” she writes on the farm’s website, “and since then I’ve added more varieties of flowers every year!” A segment on Bloom TV described how “her love of lavender led to a flower chateau in the hills of Utah.”

Her own count of the years differs from page to page. An undated profile with the Utah Cut Flower Farm Association has her growing flowers for six years and having “recently built a greenhouse.” In April 2023 Studio 5 put the farm at 11 years. The website says the farm is heading into its 13th year and has recently added a second greenhouse. Her undated agritourism listing also gives 13 years and says the flower shop was added “this year.”

On September 21, 2022, the Payson Award Program selected Chateau Monette for the 2022 Best of Payson Award in the florist category. The citation said the farm “has enhanced the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community.” The farm’s arrangements have appeared regularly in the Utah Parade of Homes.

The farm is run by DeHart, her husband, and their nine children, who work in the fields. “I have nine kids and I love to teach them how to work and enjoy the outdoors,” she writes. “Being able to do something with your land that blesses others and your own children at the same time is a wonderful thing.”