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FLOWER MARCH•APRIL 2025
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MARCH• APRIL 2025
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Muse in Bloom
Floral designers Lewis Miller and Sybil Sylvester celebrate our Flower of the Year with inspiring arrangements.
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French Twist
Designer Josh Pickering collaborated with his clients to enhance their renovated Dallas home by editing a collection of antiques, folding in new finds, and adding some French flair to reflect their travels.
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The Botanical World of Aerin Lauder On the heels of launching her latest book, Living with Flowers, the style icon sits down with FLOWER Editor-in-Chief Margot Shaw to share the inspirations that led to her love of all things floral.
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Power of the Petal
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ON THE COVER Even Weezie, a German Shorthaired Pointer, is enamored with Sybil Sylvester’s arrangement featuring our “Flower of the Year.” See pages 14 and 54 to learn more. Interiors by Heather Chadduck; Photographed by David Hillegas.
“Just living isn’t enough,” said the butterfly. “One must also have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” —HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 6 FLOWER March•April 2025
PHOTO BY STEPHEN KARLISCH
Jewelry designer Mish Tworkowski has spent a lifetime in the garden, finding peace and inspiration among blossoms he translates into exquisite adornments that enhance the wearer the way a flower enhances its setting. His new collection celebrates the beauty of a well-tended landscape.
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Flower of the Year
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From the Field
Spring forward with a pop of pink, feminine upholstery details, statementmaking consoles, and a new furniture collection from Tara Shaw.
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Gardening
John Coykendall, master gardener for Blackberry Farm, shares gardening wisdom he’s gathered through years of hands-in-the-dirt experience.
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Arranging
British floral designer Shane Connolly’s devotion to sustainability underscores his arrangements at every event, from private soirées to the King’s Coronation.
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The team at FLOWER magazine, along with our expert panel, is proud to announce the winning bloom. She’s frilly, fun, and sure to pack a punch in any arrangement.
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WATER I NG CA N A Note from the Editor
“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.” – ERNEST HEMINGWAY
designer now ensconced in Palm Beach, whose life in the garden has yielded the most magnificent floral jewels. Across the pond, we spotlight Shane Connolly, the authority on sustainability in florals, who happens to be the King of England’s first call when it comes to royal weddings and events. Shane was the mastermind behind the abundance of floral beauty at the King’s Coronation. We also visit a fresh, French-inspired interiors project in Dallas where the homeowner found her aesthetic soulmate in designer Josh Pickering. The duo went shopping in her own antiques emporium, among other fabulous spots. As you can see, this issue is all over the map. May happiness abound in you as you linger in these pages— and in this spring season.
Love and SDG,
Margot Shaw EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
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I KNOW THE FEELING. THE JOY OF SPRING—its first signs, the daffodils, the buds of forsythia. Then (in our zone anyway) the full yellow swath of the same forsythia in someone’s garden that was not there when you drove by yesterday. The promise, the hope, the light at a different angle shining on the first robin on our lawn. I’m smiling in my heart right now just sifting through these images in my mind. Imagine, as Hemingway cites, there being “no problems except where to be the happiest.” This really applies to what lies within this issue. The dilemma is where to start. Do we read in order and patiently let the beauty unfurl, or do we go straight to the Table of Contents and cherry-pick the things that speak to us? Or maybe we just turn to a random page and begin the ride with a surprise? There’s no right way, but my message in this inquiry is that wherever you land, happiness is there. Inside these pages, you’ll find our inaugural Flower of the Year announcement. We enlisted some of our good FLOWER friends to be the judges. (You will love what they picked.) Then we take a deep dive into Aerin Lauder’s lovely life with flowers, which happens to be the subject of her latest book. And speaking of stylish folks, we profile Mish Tworkowski, the divine jewelry
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The team at FLOWER, along with our expert panel, is proud to introduce the LEVANTE ROSA ANEMONE. She’s frilly, fun, and sure to pack a punch in any arrangement.
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