Photo by Blue Carreon
May/June 2025
“Some people golf. We garden,” says Alejandra Rossetti, who along with her husband—whom she refers to as her ‘partner in gardening crime’— has been creating and nurturing their Hamptons oasis for almost a decade. Tending to a massive bank of hydrangeas may occasionally turn into a high-flying athletic feat, but for Alejandra, it’s par for the course. “There is nothing more pleasurable for us than to be tinkering among the plants,” she says.
PHOTO FROM THE GARDENS OF THE HAMPTONS: GRAND ESTATES, VILLAGE JEWELS, AND PUBLIC SANCTUARIES BY BLUE CARREON (IMAGES PUBLISHING GROUP, JULY 2025)
See more from the Rossetti garden.
Photo by Natasja Sadi
March/April 2025
“The idiom of Dutch still life is embraced by many, but for me it is a way of life. Living on Dutch soil means being surrounded by all the flowers the world has to offer and witnessing the magical light. When I create flowers out of sugar, I traverse the blooming seasons with each and every sweet petal I roll by hand. By fusing my sugar flowers [such as the peony, tulips, and cherry blossoms seen here] with fresh blossoms gathered from markets near my house, I am honoring and absorbing the traditions of the past into everyday living.”
— NATASJA SADI, SUGAR FLOWER ARTIST AND AUTHOR OF A SWEET FLORAL LIFE (TEN SPEED PRESS)
Photo by Graeme Corbett
January/February 2025
“I began as a wedding florist in London, relying heavily on imported flowers I could easily obtain year-round. Now that I’ve moved to the countryside, I grow my own flowers, and I’ve become much more aware of the seasons. I must adapt to whatever the garden offers, and this photograph, taken last February, captures my current way of working. Hellebores mingle with magnolia branches I forced into bloom after a week or so in the warmth of the kitchen. The other blossom, planted by a previous owner of our old farmyard, remains a mystery to me, but it’s a highlight each year to see its shock of pink erupt into life.”
— GRAEME CORBETT OF BLOOM AND BURN IN KENT, ENGLAND
November/December 2024
“The Japanese art of kokedama allows me to bring fresh, long-lasting flowers into the house during the bleakest days of winter. I savor the process of gently cocooning ‘helleborus niger’ in balls of homemade compost, which are then cloaked with foraged moss from our garden pathways and wrapped in twine. Once placed on old china saucers on the dining room table, they last throughout the season, with just the occasional deadhead and drop of water. They provide calm amidst the chaos of the holidays.”
— POLLY NICHOLSON OF BAYNTUN FLOWERS IN WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND
Photo by Getty Images
September/October 2024
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
— L. M. MONTGOMERY, AUTHOR OF ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
Photo by Janne Ford
July/August 2024
“I call this sculpture my ‘Floral Portal,’ created from flowers and plant materials I foraged and dried from my garden and the countryside surrounding my home on the Welsh border. It’s an ethereal interpretation of a stained glass window that invites you to appreciate the color and texture of the individual flowers,
as well as to peer into the negative space that leads to the landscape beyond. Sometimes it’s the contrast of what’s not there that sets the imagination alight.”
— LAYLA ROBINSON, FLORAL DESIGNER
Photo by Ingalls Photography
May/June 2024
“That’s why I believe in “traveling flowers.” A birthday dinner might require a generous table arrangement, or a grouping of mock orange branches in your entry hall. Once the guests have gone, move the mock orange into the bedroom, where their nocturnal scent can lull you to sleep. Or deconstruct that bouquet the next day and carry a small vase to your home office when you go to pay your bills. Take flowers into a bathroom, fill the tub, light a candle, relax.”
— ARIELLA CHEZAR, FROM HOME IN BLOOM (TEN SPEED PRESS, 2024)
Produced by Karen Carroll
MORE FROM THESE FLORAL DESIGNERS
- An Inspiring Floral Workshop with Ariella Chezar and Nicolette Owen
- Natasja Sadi’s Sugary Sleight of Hand
- Branching Out with Ariella Chezar
