It's a perfect launch to the Slow Flowers Summit. Join us Saturday, June 27 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM Our co-host of the Slow Flowers Summit, Teresa Sabankaya of Bonny Doon Garden Co., and author of The Posy Book, has announced a pre-conference dinner at Castle House & Garden, her home in the the Santa Cruz Mountains. We hope you'll join us as we mingle and enjoy the garden with botanical inspired cocktails, fantastic regional wines, and Paella! It's a great way to kickoff the Summit and get to know each other, spend a little one-on-one time with the speakers, meet Teresa and tour her garden, and then gather together and enjoy a communal meal in the beautiful courtyard of Teresa & Nezih's San
#seeingcolorinthegarden by Lorene Edwards Forkner “Color is really what I’m talking about when I talk about everything,” says artist, writer, educator, and horticulturist Lorene Edwards Forkner. The array of color in nature drives her work, “Seeing Color in the Garden,” an Instagram series she has now been producing daily for nearly two years. At the Slow Flowers Summit in June, Lorene will host a visually inspiring presentation by the same name that will focus on color in nature and the power of seeing it. Having always felt drawn to creating and making, “I went a traditional route and pursued art in college,” Lorene begins. The connection between her art and the natural world solidified, h
