Cultivated: The Elements of Floral Style
From renowned gardener, floral designer, photographer, writer, and teacher Christin Geall—a richly informative work on the principles of floral style that brilliantly and delightfully elevates floral design to fine art.

Christin Geall is known and loved as the owner of the floral studio Cultivated by Christin and as the talent behind Instagram’s @cultivatedbychristin. Through all her work, she emboldens designers, gardeners, and entrepreneurs to think differently and deeply about their work with flowers and floral design.

Cultivated is a flower and gardening book like no other; it is comprised of a series of short, sometimes personal, essays paired with images. Geall draws upon the fine arts and historical sources, including explorations of Baroque music, the paintings of the Impressionists, and the work of floral innovators like Gertrude Jekyll and Constance Spry. The breathtaking photographs of her own lush designs illustrate techniques for creating brilliant arrangements that spark the imagination.

This information-rich coffee table book is a complete master class in floral arranging. It covers all aspects of floral design, including choosing flowers and plants to grow and arrange, selecting tools and vessels, balancing color and form, and even photographing and selling arrangements. Cultivated offers universal lessons for all levels of practitioners, budgets, and materials, and makes an outstanding gift for anyone with a passion for flowers.
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Cultivated: The Elements of Floral Style
From renowned gardener, floral designer, photographer, writer, and teacher Christin Geall—a richly informative work on the principles of floral style that brilliantly and delightfully elevates floral design to fine art.

Christin Geall is known and loved as the owner of the floral studio Cultivated by Christin and as the talent behind Instagram’s @cultivatedbychristin. Through all her work, she emboldens designers, gardeners, and entrepreneurs to think differently and deeply about their work with flowers and floral design.

Cultivated is a flower and gardening book like no other; it is comprised of a series of short, sometimes personal, essays paired with images. Geall draws upon the fine arts and historical sources, including explorations of Baroque music, the paintings of the Impressionists, and the work of floral innovators like Gertrude Jekyll and Constance Spry. The breathtaking photographs of her own lush designs illustrate techniques for creating brilliant arrangements that spark the imagination.

This information-rich coffee table book is a complete master class in floral arranging. It covers all aspects of floral design, including choosing flowers and plants to grow and arrange, selecting tools and vessels, balancing color and form, and even photographing and selling arrangements. Cultivated offers universal lessons for all levels of practitioners, budgets, and materials, and makes an outstanding gift for anyone with a passion for flowers.
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Cultivated: The Elements of Floral Style

Cultivated: The Elements of Floral Style

by Christin Geall
Cultivated: The Elements of Floral Style

Cultivated: The Elements of Floral Style

by Christin Geall

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From renowned gardener, floral designer, photographer, writer, and teacher Christin Geall—a richly informative work on the principles of floral style that brilliantly and delightfully elevates floral design to fine art.

Christin Geall is known and loved as the owner of the floral studio Cultivated by Christin and as the talent behind Instagram’s @cultivatedbychristin. Through all her work, she emboldens designers, gardeners, and entrepreneurs to think differently and deeply about their work with flowers and floral design.

Cultivated is a flower and gardening book like no other; it is comprised of a series of short, sometimes personal, essays paired with images. Geall draws upon the fine arts and historical sources, including explorations of Baroque music, the paintings of the Impressionists, and the work of floral innovators like Gertrude Jekyll and Constance Spry. The breathtaking photographs of her own lush designs illustrate techniques for creating brilliant arrangements that spark the imagination.

This information-rich coffee table book is a complete master class in floral arranging. It covers all aspects of floral design, including choosing flowers and plants to grow and arrange, selecting tools and vessels, balancing color and form, and even photographing and selling arrangements. Cultivated offers universal lessons for all levels of practitioners, budgets, and materials, and makes an outstanding gift for anyone with a passion for flowers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781616898205
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Publication date: 03/24/2020
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 606,604
Product dimensions: 7.20(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Christin Geall is a writer, designer, photographer, and speaker whose work focuses on the intersections of nature, culture, and horticulture. She is the author of Cultivated: The Elements of Floral Style. Find her online @cultivatedbychristin.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

Finding Flowers and Plants 12

Conveying a Sense of Place 14

Growing Flowers 18

Foraging and Moving Beyond Flowers 24

Shopping for Materials 30

Caring for Flowers 35

Gearing Up 44

A (Flower) Room of One's Own 46

Vessels 49

Mechanics 64

Thinking About Color 70

Painting with Flowers 72

Seeing Color 76

Monochromatic and Analogous Schemes 81

Contrast 89

Seeing Red 95

Using Green 98

Color in the Age of Nuance 104

Shaping Your Work 108

This Time with Feeling 111

Considering Flowers 113

Gesture 119

Form 123

Rhythm and Repetition 129

Learning from the Past 134

Baroque Style 137

The Dutch Masters 143

Rococo Style 148

Hogarth's Line of Beauty 152

Designing 156

On Creativity 158

On Style 163

Restraint and Constraint 168

Deepening Your Work 176

Why Floral Design? 178

Photographing Your Work 188

What to Read 196

Life with Flowers 198

Epilogue 203

Acknowledgments 211

Notes 213

Index 216

About the Author 223

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