{ recent love }

"our friends and family are still talking about the ground arch you created (some of our friends have it as their phone background :) ) and the creative and sentimental tablescapes - the sunflower candle holders were beyond!!" - Maya

"You are a floral genius!" - Mai

“Erin! The shoot has honestly been so special and the photos are coming out amazing. All of the florals have been a next level touch.” - Ally Hasche, Pat Austin Design Firm

“The Bloomsbury Experience @clarkart was an absolute dream come true ... I conjured up a menu inspired by the group’s historic & absurdly delightful recipes. I also designed tablecloths for the buffet from artwork in the corresponding exhibition, “A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945”. @nectarandroot created whimsical floral sculptures with blooms from my garden and her journey from Vermont.” - leah guadagnoli, @lavenderladysupreme

“We are just in awe of you and what you created for us yesterday. I have so many thanks and my heart is bursting ... The wedding was what it was because of your genius, love, attention to detail, and creativity. Coming up to my husband for the ceremony and seeing him framed by the absolutely spectacular structure you had created out of nowhere was a joyful shock like no other. I cannot believe your generosity, erin.” - Cordelia

“Working with you in the lead up was so incredibly fun. Your ideas and creativity encouraged my excitement and dreams of what could be possible. Thank you for encouraging me in my projects- as seeing people take the things I made for them was so rewarding. Planning a wedding is certainly very stressful- but not a single time was I stressed about the florals or how the tables would look or how anything you put your hands on would look. There was only ever gleeful anticipation there. You are so skilled an artist and so wonderful a human ... Thank you for making joy and beauty and memories in a way I will never forget.” - Cordelia

"Beautiful, Erin. Everyone was raving about the flowers. You did such a lovely job, I’m so grateful for you." - Jayna

SYNERGY:

nature:

finding pletny:

slowness: 

testimonials:

{ analog emphasis }

Analog is defined as not relating to, or as pre-dating, digital technology such as computers and the Internet; relating to real life. Being a florist is already an act of analog living, in that what I create is real and tangible in the physical world without a need for technology to intervene. The more that I embrace analog as a lifestyle, the more that I feel present and content in my life. I seek to bring some of this feeling to you, too.

I photograph much of my work using film photography, an analog form of documentation. Combining the imperfect, slow process of film with the imperfect, slow process of local flowers (similar to the slow food movement) is a perfect love match, to me. The black and white photograph is of my mom, holding lilacs in the 1960's.

Each design is born from a studio nestled in my 1840s antique filled farmhouse with Stowe Pinnacle ten miles to the South and flower and veg gardens just a step outside. At home I value reading physical books, listening to the radio, wearing natural fibers, wearing and surrounding myself with vintage pieces, and avoiding television. Although I still live and operate in the modern world, I try to be mindful about where I spend most of my attention. I seek to create floral art and jewelry that also brings folks into the present moment, and away from distractions of the times. None of the imagery here was created from stock images or AI.

{ community is everything }

Synergy is the result of two or more entities coming together to create something greater than the sum of their individual parts. The term synergy comes from Greek  and translates to "working together." Would you like to find a wedding florist who is an artist, able to spin your inklings into something golden and hallowed? Are you interested in supporting an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, woman-owned business who also happens to create exquisite work in florals and in jewelry? I lead a team of inclusive, anti racist flower lovers who work together to create and deliver new england wedding flower decorations. I also create synergy while collaborating with each of my client's, their aesthetic perspectives, and their stories. My team and my clients believe that everyone is welcome here. Love is love. Everybody’s love story deserves to be celebrated and decorated beautifully. I am inclusive of all races, sexual orientations, gender identities, body sizes, disabilities, ages, languages, religions, and ethnicities.

In my sourcing and referral processes I support other businesses with similar social missions from diverse backgrounds. I actively choose with discernment who I collaborate with creatively and buy from for each of my events. Every month I donate a portion of my proceeds to the New Farms for New Americans, a program matching New Americans with agriculture space and resources in Vermont including anti-ICE initiatives. 

Lastly, I have created synergy by working together with, or being featured by noteworthy brands and organizations during my fifteen years as a business owner including:

MARTHA STEWART
THE BOSTON GLOBE
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST
ANTHROPOLOGIE
BHLDN
FREE PEOPLE
TO BE MAGNETIC
TATA HARPER, OGEE, URSA MAJOR
BRIDES
MADEWELL
STYLE ME PRETTY
OVER THE MOON
URSA MAJOR
MASS MOCA
THE CLARK MUSEUM

{ the natural world }

L.M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables, is and has been one of my favorite authors since I started reading novels. Montgomery described a moment of intense, spiritual ecstasy and inspiration felt while immersed in nature as "the flash" and since reading this, I've sought to encounter the same thing as an artist and nature lover. During these moments, Montgomery described a thin "curtain" fluttering between her and "a kingdom of ideal beauty," offering a fleeting glimpse of an enchanted realm. I myself find this flash of transcendence when I am arranging flowers, studying flowers, working with metal and stones, walking through gardens and farms to source my blooms, and oftentimes, thinking about my art around bodies of water; rivers in Vermont, taking a bath at home, and the ocean in coastal New England. I love that water is a source for my creative intuition to run wild, just as it is a source to sustain my flowers in a vase.

Inspiration also comes to me through historical paintings for their use of color, antique artifacts full of detail, film and photography for their themes and editing styles, art activist events such as 'Bread and Puppet' and 'All Species Day,' and to look at sculptures for form. My favorite venues often have a focus on art (such as art galleries and museums), or historical interiors loaded with character.

In sovereignty with the environment, I avoid waste in my process as much as possible, I typically only source local ingredients, I avoid floral foam and other non biodegradable mechanics, and I compost or dry all leftover flowers from each event. I also cultivate in my gardens many species of flowers selected and updated over time to suit my aesthetic and favorite color palettes for my art.

{ cornucopia }

In Latin cornu translates to 'horn' and copia 'abundance.' Cornucopia is a symbol of agricultural, mineral, and spiritual nourishment depicted in historical art as a horn shaped vessel overflowing with produce and flowers. It also symbolizes peace. Woven baskets of this form were traditionally used to hold and carry newly harvested food products. The horn-shaped basket would be worn on the back or slung around the torso, leaving the harvester's hands free for picking.

If I am ever feeling a sense of lack, I remind myself that nature is filled with abundance whenever I spend time outside. There is so much to receive in nature, and I love to share this feeling of abundance and peace in the plants and flowers I present to my clients. I see abundance of plant products where other florists might not find it, and I bring this to you.

To create a sense of abundance for you, I focus on large-scale installations that often iclude foraged moments of whatever is bountiful in the landscape at that time. I will glean roadside apples, or branches cut from landscape workers who have otherwise destined them to a burn pile. I rescue what I can, and bring it to be celebrated instead of overlooked. My centerpieces and finer bouquets focus on abundance differently: through detail, and the beauty that each individual stem can bring to the eye when given space to shine.

Featured:

Synergy: Between myself and you
Nature: Flashes of inspiration
Plenty: A new take on abundance
Slowness: More flowers, less tech

{ my mama }

AUTHENTIC ETHOS