A gorgeously photographed new take on flower arranging using local and foraged plants and flowers to create beautiful arrangements, with ideas and inspiration for the whole year. Roadside fennel, flowering fruit trees, garden roses, tiny violets; ingredients both common and unusual, humble and showy, Foraged Flora is a new vision for flowers and arranging. It encourages you to train your eye to the beauty that surrounds you, attune your senses to the seasonality and locality of flowers and plants, and to embrace the beauty in each stage of life, from first bud to withering seedpod.   Organized by month, each chapter in this visually arresting and inspiring book focuses on large and small arrangements created from the flowers and plants available during that time period and in that place, all foraged or gleaned nearby. The authors reflect on surprising and beautiful pairings, the importance of scale, the scarcity or abundance of raw materials, and the environmental factors that contribute to that availability.   Whether picking a small tendril of fragrant jasmine, collecting oversized branches of flowering quince, or making a garland of bay laurel, Foraged Flora is an invitation to seek out the beauty of the natural world. As seen in the New York Times , Wall Street Journal , Martha Stewart Magazine, Malibu Magazine , San Francisco Chronicle , and many more Winner of an International Photography Award (IPA) "This 250-page coffee table book advocates for beauty that’s authentic and self-reliant, regardless of where you live.” — Wired "A must read this fall." — Domino  "A vibrant new volume." —C Magazine "A visual delight." — Los Angeles Times "A stunning book—an invitation to seek out the beauty of the natural world." — SF Girl By Bay "Beautiful and poetic with an organic point of view." — Quintessence  "Louesa is an incredible and singular talent. She has the powerful ability to gather and assemble plants into living sculpture. The astonishing thing about Foraged Flora is that it so perfectly translates her transitory work in permanent printed form. Flipping through its pages you will get her vibe instantly, and be transported to another place." — Todd Selby , author of Edible Selby and The Selby is in Your Place Louesa Roebuck is an artist and floral designer who lives in Ojai but considers all of California her home. She has created flora installations from foraged and gleaned materials for clients like Vivienne Westwood, John Baldessari, and Alice Waters. In addition to her work with flora, Roebuck has worked in fashion for many years and paints monotypes and works in textile design. Design editor and writer Sarah Lonsdale is a co-founder of Remodelista and the author of Japanese Style.  She grew up in England, spent almost a decade in Tokyo working in television and advertising, and currently lives with her family in California’s Napa Valley. INTRODUCTION  My faithful dog, scrap, is lying in my lap as I write this.  Her name is Scrap, and she’s a Chihuahua / dachshund / terrier mix. She weighs 17 pounds, not an ounce of fat on her perfectly athletic and graceful body. She is perhaps the most intelligent animal I have ever rescued and I’ve been bringing home strays since I was four. She is unusually swift of foot and can jump almost five feet from a standing position. She obsessively hunts rats. She is inquisitive, charming, elegant, and sassy enough; possesses a healthy soft coat; is clear-eyed and obedient to a fault; loves cheese more then she loves me, and, I think, is perfect.  Why am I going on about my dog?  Because she’s a rescue from South Central LA.  She’s not a Labradoodle from Australia bred to be hypoallergenic, nor a sleek but high-strung-sensitive pointer meant to work game birds in a field for pleasure. She’s not an imported Irish terrier, or a Norwich . . . or a French bulldog that to my mind mostly serves as a design statement.  She’s a “mutt”—do people still use that word?  From a rough part of town with a rough start, who found us through friends and has made our home complete.  I love her dearly.  This is how I approach my floral life and work. Indeed how I have since I was that same four-year-old girl bringing home strays and blooms for my mom.  There is endless beauty and bounty all around us, right in front of us, waiting to be seen and embraced and taken into our homes, if we can only see it.  I am fortunate enough to now live in California, a place of astonishing fertility and abundance. At any given time in the calendar year, in my very modest cottage yard, or on the paths my daily life takes, I see flora that beg to be seen and or brought inside.  Pick Me Please.  I don’t want to list these now, that’s some of what this book sets out to do: Record just a fraction of what is abundantly growing, blooming, fruiting, and even elegantly dying in every month, in the ecosystem I inhabit.  Why on earth would I desire peonies f