Last week I was invited to take a group from the Southern California Horticultural Society on a tour of the LA Flower District (more on that soon!). The field trip was in conjunction with a book signing and lecture from Amy Stewart, author of the New York Times best-seller Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers.

I first met Amy almost three years ago, right when her book came out and right when I launched my green program at The Spiraled Stem. I voraciously read her book over the course of about two days, luckily I was flying to the East Coast and had plenty of time to read on the plane. On that trip I met up with Amy at the New York Botanical Gardens, but due to train delays, I missed the good stuff on her lecture and caught her just in time for an autograph!

So last week I finally caught her lecture, and if you have the opportunity you should go too. What struck me the most was that she is a writer  – not a flower industry insider but a flower lover who has an editor who lets her write about her interests and flowers struck her fancy. Must be nice by the way, I was living vicariously through her words and the photos she shared in the lecture – I’d LOVE to go to Ecuador, Holland, Miami and see all of the pieces of this flower machine in motion. SOME DAY! Just putting that out in the universe.

After her lecture I pulled her into the backstage of the auditorium for a Coffee Chat, here it is!

Christine Saunders from The Spiraled Stem Floral Design chats with New York Times best-selling author Amy Stewart. Her book Flower Confidential: The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers. Find out what inspired Amy to peel back the petals of the flower industry, her biggest surprise in her world travels, and why flowers are like wine. Her book can be ordered at www.AmyStewart.com or is available at a bookstore near you.

Here’s the info from the Southern California Horticultural Society series that we were a part of:

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