On Hollywood Way in Burbank, just down the street from Portos, behind an inviting storefront filled with color, fragrance, and the soft hum of creative hustle, sits The…
Read more Kimberly Williams – Living Her Life With Flowers as The Enchanted FloristHappy holidays! This week we’re revisiting our favorite festive stories from years past, like this one: The poinsettia revolution was a long time coming. But worth waiting for.…
Read more Poinsettias: Rethinking a Christmas Cliché – GardenistaIf Wednesday Addams were a floral designer, her arrangements would look like Emily Thompson’s: dripping, clambering, creeping, amorphous, and alive despite being very much dead. We’ve covered Emily’s…
Read more Emily Thompson: An Interview with the Artist and Floral DesignerWe’ve been following Midwesterner by birth, Californian in spirit Louesa Roebuck for more than a decade, describing her as a “fearless forager” in one story, “renegade florist” in…
Read more Quick Takes With: Louesa Roebuck – GardenistaWhen we asked Christin Geall for “the real reason she gardens,” the floral designer, writer, photographer, and educator responded with a literary quote: “I’m borrowing from Joan Didion…
Read more Christin Geall: An Interview with the Floral Designer and WriterMosquito repellent plants are garden heroes: colorful flowers and herbs with natural fragrances that chase away buzzing insects even as their perfumes soothe humans. The first step in…
Read more Mosquito Repellent: 5 Flowers and Herbs to Keep Pests Away – GardenistaHere’s how Ariella Chezar has been described in recent press: “a leader in the farm-to-flower movement” (in Vogue); “the godmother of seasonal floral design” (by Erin Benzakein of…
Read more Ariella Chezar: An Interview with the Floral Designer and Author of ‘Home in Bloom’Above: Dahlias are Mexico’s national flower so they grow exceptionally well here. Gabriela’s garden presently is 3/4 of an acre and it expands little by little. She started…
Read more Gabriela Salazar’s Cut Flower Garden in Valle de Bravo, Mexico: The Floral Designer Gives Us a TourSelecting the perfect flower bouquet can be challenging for those new to the process, as each flower carries its own color, scent, and meaning. To create a meaningful…
Read more Choosing the Perfect Bouquet: A Beginner’s Guide to Flower GiftingAbove: A field of dahlias at organic flower farm Tiny Hearts Farm in the Hudson Valley. Photograph by Melissa Ozawa, from Ask the Experts: Organic Flower Farms Share Tips…
Read more Eco-Conscious Florists: How to Know Your Cut Flowers Are SustainableWith the Lunar New Year coming up on February 10, we’re resurfacing this story from our archives about using Chinese lanterns in floral arrangements. Consider yourself lucky if…
Read more Chinese Lanterns: How to Use Them in Floral ArrangementsOccasionally something stops us in our tracks on Instagram. And so it was on an icy late November evening when we spied Anna Potter’s enormous wreath of dried…
Read more Wreaths Designed with Grasses and Dried Flowers: A New Holiday TrendAbove: In autumn, shrubs sport all color of berries. Branches with green leaves and colorful berries make pretty garlands. In my Northern California neighborhood, there are lots of…
Read more DIY: Foraged Thanksgiving Tabletop with Berries and Branches – GardenistaTaking a moment amongst the flowers is something that Rebecca O’Donnell mentions often when talking about the inspiration and mood of her transportive store, The Quiet Botanist in…
Read more The Quiet Botanist: Rebecca O’Donnell’s Botanical Store in Hudson, NY
