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How Untamed Branches Are an Apt Symbol for Our Turbulent Times
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How Untamed Branches Are an Apt Symbol for Our Turbulent Times
Instead of the cool refinement of a simple bloom, they offer a more imposing and irrepressible sort of beauty.
A monumental tangle of lichen-covered mountain laurel and flowering pink-and-white quince branches created by Emily Thompson of Emily Thompson Flowers in New York City.Credit.Photo by Kyoko Hamada. Set design by Theresa Rivera
By Ligaya Mishan
March 5, 2021
THE QUINCE ARE half-naked, half in flower. The blooms stand out bright white, points of focus in the broad dark, but the branches are the story: the anatomy of spiky boughs, and the angles and cantilevers they contorted themselves into during their life outdoors, reaching for the sun. Some of them are five feet high and set in their ways, resistant to the touch. “You’re wrestling a tiger,” says the New York-based floral design
Seasonal centrepiece: a suspended floral creation by Kitten Grayson
Credit: Kitten Grayson
Back in March, just as the first lockdown was ushered in, Fiona Haser-Bizony, owner of the Electric Daisy Flower Farm in Somerset, found herself in a similar predicament to scores of growers and floral designers across the country. The wedding and events industry came to an abrupt standstill with almost every booking cancelled.
The flowers, of course, kept on growing. But Fiona was in a more precarious situation than most – just one month previously she had launched a London shop in Hampstead, which was abruptly closed just weeks after it had opened.