Free Download Black Flora: Inspiring Profiles of Floriculture’s New Vanguard by Teresa J. Speight
English | October 22nd, 2024 | ISBN: 1643264036 | 208 pages | True EPUB | 217.70 MB
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 Florashowcases a range of floral expertise. And asvisionary 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 Florahonors floriculture’s creative vanguard.