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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Happy New Year! Welcome to 2010 and a whole new lineup of blog series we will be featuring at The Spiraled Stem. Our first series is called Coffee Chat with The Spiraled Stem, where I sit down with one of my colleagues in the wedding biz for a fun Q&A about them and their biz. Subscribe to our RSS feed to catch all of our Coffee Chat guests!

Episode 1 is with Miguel Pola from Miguel Pola Photographers located in La Habra, CA. We sat down at the floral design studio to chat about his approach to wedding photography, w

hat his clients should expect in their consultation and relationship with him through the course of the wedding, how to create timeless photos that will look just as fresh when your grandkids look at them as they did on the day they were taken, and the highlight moment in a wedding that he loves to capture for his clients. You can visit his website at www.MiguelPola.com for more information and to view his portfolio!

Thanks for joining us for our first episode of Coffee Chat, tune in next week for another featured OC wedding vendor!

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