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Go Flower Go
Go Flower Go
native naturalized ornamental invasive

  • WELCOME TO 
    ​GO FLOWER GO

     Herbarium Art & Gardening Consultations 

    Private or small group workshops on nature appreciation, herbarium art and creative flower therapy

    ​Enthusiastic DIY garden consultations

    Customized databases on your wild or ornamental plants 

Why I Do What I Do

Photo Credit: Sally Russ

The specimens I have preserved are the pages of a ten-year story of my deepening connection to the plants and trees that grow around me.

Each one has taken me on a journey to understand what it takes to be a plant. It is a long journey and one that will keep fascinating me throughout my lifetime. 
I have studied their complex, mind-blowing morphology, survival techniques and observed the strategies used by each plant to meet its needs despite its immobility; reaching for sun, finding shade, creeping over shale, retaining water or seeking dryness, working with the insects that pollinate or eat them or the animals that browse and snack on them. 
It is an honor to live amongst and interact with these diverse life forms every day, season after season. 
They are my neighbors and my teachers. 
Finding them and learning about them, has brought me a profound appreciation of the beauty of lifeforms way smaller than me, 
and the realization that sadly, some of them may become endangered and lost due to human impact and climate shifts.
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Kris Garnier botanist, eco artist, nature advocate.

ABOUT

Garnier has been an estate gardener and passionate advocate for nature in our region for over 25 years. She has collected,  identified and preserved over 150 plants growing in Saugerties and Woodstock, New York. 

In 2020, she received the Susana Meyer Creative Arts grant through ​ShoutOut Saugerties that culminated in an exhibit called Wet/Land.  In 2021 she began building a preserved plant library collection at White Feather Farm.

​Garnier is passionate about sharing her understanding and love of the flora that surrounds us.

​Her pressed flower art is sold privately.

She has earned a certification in botany through The New York Botanical Garden and is a New York State Licensed Guide #7272.

Testimonials

"My kids gave me a gift…a series of private plant preservation workshops with Kris!

I wasn’t sure what to expect from this unique gift...

What I got was not only “special time” with a neighbor who shares a passion for plants, but also special time with a person who is knowledgeable, kind, creative and patient.  

The bonus was a series of professionally pressed plants from our property

which are now hanging in our home. I recommend highly!"

RB Neuberg, Woodstock, NY

"Kris Garnier has worked on my gardens for many years.

Her vast knowledge of plants, both practical and academic,

has created so much beauty all around me that I can’t imagine gardening without her.

Along with botanical knowledge,

Kris brings a strong visual sense to the design of the landscape."

Carol March, Artist, Woodstock, NY

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