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Christin Geall is the author of Cultivated: The Elements of Floral Style (Princeton Architectural Pre

Cultivated is an urban flower farm/design studio in Victoria, Canada, and a literary gardening column by Christin Geall.

07/06/2026

Flowers on the agenda 💪🏻we did it!

02/06/2026

Making a lot of noise about fashion and cultivars these days (particularly in my recent conversation with Noel Kingsbury and Annie Guilfoyle about my new book wherein I called my previous whore-to-cultural self a Cultivar Queen). It’s available now…look for it. But but but…aren’t these pretty little poofs? Exactly the kind of eye candy/cotton candy that would once have set me on the hunt for corms… so cute. 🧸 Farmers market, underpriced, bringing up another raft of issues. Flowers are political and beautiful and life-supporting, so we all must pay attention. Curious though: what are these called?!

25/05/2026

Join me this week online! I’m grateful to Noel Kingsbury for describing Flora Culture as ‘one of the most remarkable books on plants in a long time, at once opulent, learned, critical, morally-challenging and exuberant’. If you’re struggling with some of the issues I raise in the book, please join me. Questions will be welcome.

FREE: May 28th. I’ll be in conversation with Noel, author of over 25 books on plants, gardens and ecology, as a part of the . 6pm UK time, 1pm ET

The zoom link can be found at: https://www.gardenmasterclass.org/garden-chat/

On May 26th (tomorrow!): I’ll be speaking to growers and designers in the Flower More community at 7pm ET. Paid registration required.

On May 29th, I’ll be presenting to the American Horticulture Association from 2-3pm ET. Pre-registration and a small fee required. https://ahsgardening.org/event/ahs-live-flora-culture/

Hope to see you💚🌈💚 I’ll add links in stories.

22/05/2026

An ambitious outing to Sezincote (hitch-hiked not once but twice, though only one thumb was raised and that was midway along the most exquisite ancient oak graced drive). Post-Rajasthan I couldn’t resist seeing what called one of Britain’s great gardens, and on a hot day, the spring fed pools, burbling water and shaded groves were a balm. The exquisite orangery cm tea room, was so festooned with blooming jasmine, I was grateful for the breeze.
The house was built in 1805 and was the inspiration for Brighton Pavilion and if you’re getting a whiff of East India Company you’re on the trail. The landscape was shaped before Repton but his legacy and levels remain.
No pictures in the house but suffice to say I do need to reign in my love of passementerie because I sense it could rise to unhealthy levels.
I winged it a bit this morning stopping at to say hello as I got word they put my book in the window (next to Fortnum & Mason no less—speaking of prime real estate!), then had a day with GWR that was a little more than I bargained for. I like visiting gardens alone (I’m fast, focused and a little insufferable) so under the famous Indian bridge I spotted another solo traveler who was clever enough to have a tripod and was doing a photoshoot. She took a kindly picture of me with her hands.
Sezincote is not busy, but all the Ubers and taxis were, so I cozied up to the new owners of a Darmera peltata (who knew it is called Indian rhubarb?) and was oh so kindly delivered back to the station just in time for a severely delayed train. Worth it x

21/05/2026

Flower friends…aren’t they wonderful? We grow, change, share knowledge, and delight in one another’s discoveries. I’ve known for many years. Often he’d be in Africa while I’d be in Canada or he’d be in England and I’d be off somewhere south, but still we’d keep in touch, both traveling with our cameras and the dream of making a book. I was pleased I could feature two of his pictures in FLORA CULTURE: HOW FLOWERS SHAPE OUR WORLD. 1. Vanda orchids bred at Motes Orchids and 2. Bulbophyllum oxypterum from South Africa. Robbie has a new book titled ORCHIDS: BOTANICAL PORTRAITS available for preorder now .

17/05/2026

Have you ever seen a word spelled out in flowers? A floral clock? Or an animal built ofbegonias? These horticultural feats may seem dated, but they endure today—on trafficislands, at airports, in amusement parks, cemeteries, and public and private gardens. Thestyle, initially flat, was known as carpet bedding, referencing the gardens planted to look likecarpets when viewed from on high out the windows of grand French châteaux. (You could alsosay that the plants wove themselves together into carpets, rather than merely resembling them.)In the West, intricate garden designs had been around since Tudor knot garden times, butbedding as we know it today—the massing of quick-growing plants into decorative seasonaldisplays—began in the mid-1800s when, as Noel Kingsbury notes,“gardening came of age as a mass-market hobby in the newly industrializedcountries.” As with any analysis of a change in culture orstyle, it’s useful to ask both how the change was possible and why ithappened—just because something is possible doesn’t mean it willhappen of course. The conditions must be right.In my mind, two things made carpet bedding possible.
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A teaser from my new book Flora Culture: How Flowers Shape Our World (link in profile). Thinking about Chelsea this week!
Image: Courtesy of Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
And Vetterle and Reinelt, Capitola CA

14/05/2026

After so much traveling, I craved feeling at home. So we walked through wild meadows of Camassia under twisted Garry oaks the other day. There were sweet cottonwood breezes and salty smells from the Salish sea. Sorted 💚 plus I have more clothes ✔️

10/05/2026

“My
mother
was
my first country,
the first place i ever lived.”
~ Nayyirah Waheed
Happy Mother’s Day to you💚flowers from my garden a few seasons ago. Today the Papaver rupifragum bloomed, zinging my memory back to this urn of joy.

02/05/2026

This image of discarded artificial flowers by Mandy Barker is titled’Hong Kong Soup: 1826 - Lotus Garden 2014’ and appears in my new book FLORA CULTURE: HOW FLOWERS SHAPE OUR WORLD to raise awareness of plastic pollution.

05/12/2025

Ooh 🎯 Fables of our Time by at “From afar, the artworks show a meadow with flowers, mushrooms, or a coral reef. Up close, they reveal hundreds of icons representing ecosystems and human interactions, including elements that change, pollute, or mimic nature.
Each of the panels is made up of hundreds of emoji”.

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