Cultivated by Christin
Christin GeallIdeas on design, nature, culture and horticulture from Christin Geall, the author of Cultivated: The Elements of Floral Style (Princeton Architectural Press, 2020) and Flora Culture: How Flowers Shape Our World, forthcoming from Rizzoli in 2026.
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Shifting Baselines
Ecological Memory
My girlfriend has a cat, a big bruiser, who roams outside without a bell. “You shouldn’t let him out,” I told her. “He’ll kill the birds.”
FLORA CULTURE
My new book weighs three pounds. Its heft surprised me: I’d requested a softcover+jacket to keep the price down but I’d never considered what 303 pages of Rizzoli production actually felt like. Fabulous, yet concerning, as in: overweight ba...
A Japanese Flower Auction
I’m kneeling, face-to-face with a paphiopedilum. Its pouty lip glistens. Lines etched on petals and sepals lure my eyes to a clitoral staminode shining yellow. I think of the hoverflies who might pollinate the flower and why I’m in Japan, c...
Aesthetics
The Power of Art
There’s an old adage in journalism to follow the money, and in the cut-flower industry you can’t help notice how much money there actually is: the global trade exceeds $8 billion a year.
Finding Art
Sourcing Images
Rumour has it that at one point during the creation of my next book, the head of Rizzoli, Charles Miers, who Columbia called ‘The Boss of Beautiful Books’, looked at some sample spreads and said, “I thought this book was ab...
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Exploring design, nature, culture and horticulture. Author of Flora Culture: How Flowers Shape Our World (Rizzoli, 2026) and Cultivated: The Elements of Floral Style (Princeton Architectural Press, 2020).
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