Black Flora: Inspiring Profiles of Floriculture’s New Vanguard
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 Flora showcases a range of floral expertise. And as visionary 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 Flora honors floriculture’s creative vanguard.
Floriculture’s new creative vanguard
Discover 20+ successful Black floral artists and entrepreneurs
Teresa J. Speight
Ashley Robinson
Gina Lett Shrewsberry
Shanda Zelaya
Kristen Griffith-Vanderyacht
Hermon Black
The Wild Mother
Mimo Davis
Bron-Zuri Hansboro
Drew Rios
Joy Proctor
Dee Hall
Nicole Cordier
Hannah Morgan
Natasha Graham
Isha Foss
Whitney Jaye
Kiara Hancock
Taij & Victoria Cotten
Kaifa Anderson-Hall
Whit Mcclure
Aishah & Sebastian Lurry
Talia Boone
Myriah Towner
!["["[Black Flora] celebrates the joy and exuberance of shared cultures and bloodlines as well as the past and present experience of being Black in America and in the world." — Pilar Zuniga, Owner and Lead Designer, Gorgeous and Green, and Host of @floristsofcolor](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Praise-for-Black-Flora-7-1.jpg)
