Discover the growing community of Black floriculture leading the new vanguard in flowers.
Black Flora is the first book to feature profiles of contemporary Black experts innovating in the world of flowers. Author and longtime gardener, Teresa Speight, offers a beautiful intersection of flowers and community. This book is a homecoming, one that unearths the floral legacies of the past and present, while providing a source of inspiration for younger generations of plant-lovers seeking examples of successful Black floral artists and entrepreneurs.
With photos and insights from over 20 growers, florists, and designers from around the US, each with a deep reverence for nature, Black Flora showcases a range of floral expertise. And as visionary horticulturalist and garden historian, Abra Lee, reflects in her foreword, the community represented in Black Flora has an important significance both today, and in garden history.
Both a celebration of now and a vision for the future, Black Flora honors floriculture’s creative vanguard.
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"Black Flora is an incredibly exciting, joyful, and healthy gift to us all as it offers page after page of inspiring Black flower artists and the beautifully wide-ranging flowers we create! Reading the "flower journeys" in each of the featured profiles reminds me so much of the experiences I went through to find my own path with plants and flowers. The stories are also refreshing proof that there are so many wonderful and unexpected routes to finding our way to beauty in this world. We Black flower farmers, gardeners, and designers are lighting the way for each other and for the world.
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Leslie Bennett, Owner and Creative Director of Pine House Edible Gardens, Co-Author of The Beautiful Edible Garden, and Founder and Installation Artist of Black Sanctuary Gardens