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Cultivating Place: Thoughtful Alchemy: Sustainable Floral Design, Shane Connolly & Co

All images courtesy of Shane Connolly & Co. all rights reserved.
All images courtesy of Shane Connolly & Co. all rights reserved.

As we tend toward summer’s end, with end-of-summer and fall events and celebrations perhaps in mind, maybe even winter events in the planning, we turn this week to floristry and how and where it intersects with sustainability – and as our guest today shares, with thoughtfulness.

British floral designer Shane Connolly is well-known for his world-class floristry and floral design – gracing several weddings within the British Royal Family as well as the recent coronation of King Charles.

All images courtesy of Shane Connolly & Co. all rights reserved.
All images courtesy of Shane Connolly & Co. all rights reserved.

While his floral design is known for this high-profile event, Shane is also known as one of the preeminent ambassadors for a more sustainable, organic, local, seasonal, and low-waste floral design and floral supply industry.

In advance of the Slow Flowers Society welcoming Shane for three days of workshops and events in Seattle, WA, Sept 29th – October 1st, Shane joins Cultivating Place this week to share more. Enjoy!

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Jennifer Jewell is the creator and host of the national award-winning, weekly public radio program and podcast, Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History & the Human Impulse to Garden, Jennifer Jewell is a gardener, garden writer, and gardening educator and advocate. Particularly interested in the intersections between gardens, the native plant environments around them, and human culture, she is the daughter of garden and floral designing mother and a wildlife biologist father.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.