Floral Folklore
Artisan Marian McEvoy likens her decorative brand of collage to outsider art, using "whatever's at hand" from sunflower and cosmos to morning glory (top right, through krbnyc.com).
Apprentices Welcome
Peak bloom, immortalized? Personal herbariums turn even novice growers into garden historians-for this, London-based floral studio JamJar Flowers offers beginner craft kits that include handmade oak veneer presses engraved with florals, like this one etched with a California poppy.jamjaredit.co.uk
Gunnera's Giant
British artist Stuart Thornton's commanding compositions of the broad leaves soar to eight feet-scaling up conventional herbaria-and draw a cult-like following of A-list collectors.
This story is from the May - June 2022 / Volume 36 Issue 3 edition of Veranda.
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