Garden People: Lauren E. Palmer, floral artist, activist & educator, The Wild Mother Creative Studio
images: @maucierivisualsco for @405mag; @thewildmother
I’m so honored to welcome Lauren Elizabeth Palmer, Founder and Principal Designer at The Wild Mother Creative Studio to the Garden People podcast. Lauren, along with her sisters Leah and Callie, are based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where they offer incredible floral design as well as in-person and online education. Their art is informed by their Afro-indigenous heritage, and reflects their reverence for the natural world, drawing together the threads of the past and present, beauty and activism, to tell the stories of today. The care they take with their materials imbues their creations with passion and true joy.
2022 is the second year of the “Send Flowers To” campaign, through which The Wild Mother creates floral art installments to honor, draw attention to, and heal intergenerational community trauma. This year, the campaign highlights Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, or MMIW, and involves an installation at the First American’s Museum in Oklahoma City from May 7th to May 9th. Please follow the links in the show notes or at thewildmother.com to learn more and contribute to this important cause.
L I S T E N
S H O W N O T E S
Lauren and her sisters - The Wild Mother Creative Studio
#SendFlowersTo for Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women (MMIW)
Tulsa Greenwood Massacre - the subject of #SendFlowersTo for 2021
Story of Matoaka or Pocahontas’ kidnapping
P L A N T L I S T
California Lilac, Ceanothus ssp. - Ceanothus thyrsiflorus ‘Blueblossom’
Sweet grass, Hierochloe odorata, and some of its uses
Coneflower, Echinacea, as medicinal plant
Olive leaf, Nestronia umbellula Raf.
Sweetheart rose, Champagne
Helleborus, Lenten Rose
Tweedia, Oxypetalum coeruleum
Limelight Hydrangea, Hydrangea paniculata ‘Limelight’
PeeGee Hydrangea, H. paniculata
Images: @thewildmother
