Field Studies Flora

Name: Field Studies Flora
Address: New York, NY, 11201, US
Telephone: +12126554611

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The most amazing things come from the earth. We bring them to your doorstep.

09/01/2024

Fig.1 — bloodroot on a bed of moss procured from the wild by for a campaign photographed by .jess.laird at for .

08/30/2024

Fig. 1 — the shears of our founder on a rock. Fig. 2 — salsify seed-heads scanned by our lead florist Kadie Kirkpatrick.

08/28/2024

Some of our favorite flowers are the ones that no one notices. Shown here: common milkweed found along a highway in North Carolina, photographed by Alan Cressler.

08/26/2024

Optimistic as ever, daisies — even when placed on their own — have the ability to brighten up an entire room.

08/24/2024

Studies on lichen. Shown here: a few pages from How to Know the Lichen (the second edition) by Mason E. Hale PB and Lichens of North America by Irwin M. Brodo, Sylvia Duran Sharnoff, Stephen Sharnoff, Susan Laurie-Bourque, Peter H. Raven, and the Canadian Museum of Nature.

08/20/2024

Fig 1. — four bunches of bound tulips (procured locally from Vandyk Farm) with their bulbs intact at , captured by Michael Druce.

08/08/2024

A vision of grass from a book authored by Piet Oudolf.

08/04/2024

Thistle, asparagus, crown vetch and catalpa branches; three weeds and a sensible snack arranged in nature’s reflection for an event at hosted by earlier this summer. Photographed by .

08/02/2024

A flower is not a flower, it’s the sun and the clouds and the rain that feeds it. Shown here: leftover scraps from an intervention at , now test-drying at the studio.

07/30/2024

When you walk into our studio, one of the first things you might notice is our drying rack above your head. It’s true that many if not most of the things we process to dry start out fresh, but sometimes we’re lucky enough to find them in a fossilized state out in the wild. That’s the case with this spiderwort from our field trip last winter to visit Nicole of and her team. These stems dried out in the field, and were fully intact when we cut them.

07/25/2024

A beautiful prompt authored by William Pope.L: “Can we accept the idea that the richest soil has been tainted—or maybe enriched—by the negative?” Photo by for .

07/24/2024

Be intentional about what goes into your meal and your floral arrangements — sometimes the two things can be the same. Seen here: an intricate detail of one of the oyster mushrooms featured in our founder’s arrangement for this month’s issue of . Photo by .

07/21/2024

For our intervention in the Galerie Was space, procured a grand Rhododendron branch for us. In good company, at rest beneath its canopy were light pink tulips from Vandyke that were left in our studio for three days prior to the install in order to achieve a dancer-like state — long and gestural — for each stem.

07/18/2024

What a pleasure to have the studio’s perspective featured in the summer issue of in the impressive company of fellow floral artists. Infinite thanks to Sandra Hassfeld and Nadine Najjar for including us. Shown here: a few favorite studies from the archives.

07/14/2024

In our studio there’s a bowl full of lichen that we’ve peeled off branches before composting. Otherworldly in a way, these impressive living things are not plants although they may seem to be. In actuality, they’re the lovechild of a fungus and an alga. With a crust-like texture and often chromatic skin, they cling to surfaces like trees and rocks and almost anything else, but not in an intrusive or parasitic manner. Some are wispy like teased wool, others are more like jelly. Relentless and abundant, it’s said that just under 10% of earth’s land surface is blanketed by these complex creatures (they exist on all continents!) and how lucky we are for that.

07/12/2024

In the pages of this month’s you’ll find an edible assemblage that our founder Alex W. Crowder arranged for the magazine’s study on the art of food. With blush oyster mushrooms and mayapples as the starring elements, the arrangement is alive with imagination, guided by an insatiable curiosity for the natural world. Link in bio to read the feature beautifully authored by Ella Martin-Gachot. Photo by .

07/11/2024

Meanwhile at a nursery on Long Island.

07/02/2024

From the digital archives of Andy Goldsworthy — partly stripped sycamore twigs and a forked branch and stick seen here in Ilkley, Yorkshire sometime in September of 1978.

06/29/2024

Behind the scenes of a photoshoot earlier this spring for ’s latest issue dedicated to the art of food in all forms. Buckets of chamomile and brassica, and the start of a large-scale tablescape with mayapples as the star. Photos by .

06/26/2024

In textural conversation with lights by , our studio foraged local, seasonal blooms for a show at earlier this spring. Arranged throughout the space in a variety of vessels, exhibition visitors could find locust branches, young dogwood, bloom-less cherry branches and dried seedpods — from milkweed, iris and magnolia — pulled from our drying rack.

06/23/2024

Oddly beautiful, this offbeat arrangement made for was a mirror image of the project itself, described by its founders as “a marriage of warmth and grandeur, whimsy and irreverence.” Playing with form and feeling, the golden willow appears to float on top of the skeletal and expressive magnolia branches with blooms past their traditional prime. Each element comes together to create something unfamiliarly familiar.

06/21/2024

We owe the cultivation of pansies to Lady Mary Elizabeth Bennet who gathered every type of violet in her father’s garden and in 1812 introduced her pansies to the world.

06/20/2024

Clematis Brachiata or ‘Traveler’s Joy’ aptly riding in the front seat of ’s car last year. Known for its use in ceremonial medicine to induce dreaming, these spidery blooms are as bewildering as they are commonplace. Photo by .

06/18/2024

Two favorite pages from volume 5, a progressive guide to gardens, plants, and flowers. Seen here: a near-fossilized photo of a single, rhythmic stem and Sally Gall’s expressionist portrait of a red poppy.

06/13/2024

Described as “ecosystem engineers” cushion plants are as clever as they are captivating, adapting to harsh environments with graceful ease. Large and low-growing at a snail’s pace, some species can live as long as 350 years. Our favorite forms house hundreds of tiny flowers, but others don bigger blooms as well.

06/11/2024

“I often say when the earth speaks in abundance, we’d do well to listen.” —
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We’re thrilled to share Spaces For Unwanted Species, a conversation between our founder Alex and the good people of for REACT, their issue dedicated to restoring biodiversity on our plates and our planet.
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What a privilege to have the Field Studies Flora point of view in the impressive company of all the other collaborators in this issue: Mikey and Kez ⁠, , creator of Odd Apples⁠, , ⁠,
Greg Klaes, grower in Oxfordshire, Sarah , , , , , .hervouet⁠, ⁠, and .
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REACT is currently only available in the UK but will be available in New York, Paris, Copenhagen and Melbourne soon. For more information, check out online. All profits from issue sales go directly to Farm Fund, Natoora’s initiative raising money for the next generation of agroecological growers.

06/10/2024

Temple Bells Pieris or Andromeda have a bell-shaped charm and in this case, a soft ivory color. Here you can see them in small waterfalls with most of their leaves removed, balanced in a nest of young birch branches, ornamented with catkins. Photo by .jess.laird inside for .

06/08/2024

“...it is about emotion, atmosphere, a sense of contemplation” — a sentiment we value from Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf. Seen here: pages from his book, Planting the Natural Garden.

06/06/2024

What are we composed of if not the very same elements which make up the leaves of a clover, the flowers of an iris, the roots of avens or the bulb of a tulip?
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What a pleasure to contribute a piece to the second iteration of .NYC, a limited print publication celebrating the ordinary.

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