Nomadica

Nomadica Garden Designer, Florist, Flower Farmer, and Advanced Master Gardener in Weston, CT Hi, I’m Christina. I’d love to work with you. So I named it Nomadica.

I’m happiest when I’m working with flowers and bringing magic to your gardens. I’m a florist, garden designer, advanced master gardener, and flower farmer, growing right in my backyard in Weston, CT. I have a skilled crew who work with me, and we offer design, installation, and garden management services. I also offer flower bouquet delivery year round, locally grown flower subscriptions in the Sp

ring and Fall, flowers for small events, and I stock a seasonal flower stand with my backyard blooms, servicing Weston, Westport, Fairfield, Easton, Wilton and Norwalk, Connecticut. Everything Nomadica offers is based the belief that discovery and joy should be part of your everyday life. I strive to offer magical moments and connection to the world around us. I’m inspired by business models that prioritize doing good above focusing on the bottom line, and work hard to pay my team a fair wage, offer superior services and products to my clients, and give back to organizations working for conservation. It varies year to year, but Nomadica consistently donates to the Anne Kent Taylor Fund in Kenya. You can read more about their work here. As of January, 2024, we’ve given over $6500 to support conservation and scholarship opportunities for underserved communities. Floristry:

Designing with fresh cut flowers is one of my favorite things to do. During the growing season, almost all of my blooms come from my back yard where I grow with organic methods and no harsh chemicals. These are the best, flowers you can get. They last longer and have a smaller environmental footprint. During the winter months, I grow tulips in a greenhouse and in my basement. I love unique, wild, and unexpected designs within the garden style. I can help you with bouquets, small events, and weddings. Come shop the flower stand at 64 Steep Hill Road, Weston CT April-October. For the best value, and a beautiful bouquet of local blooms delivered monthly, sign up for a flower subscription. Garden Designs, Management and Consultations:

My garden designs are inspired by secret gardens, and creating biodiverse spaces that invite you to explore. I believe your yard is an extension of your home, and should have spaces and moments that ground and inspire you. I work primarily with natives and pollinator friendly plants, with all of my installations targeting a 70% native plant mix in order to best support biodiversity and balance. If you are interested in working together, you can register for a consultation, here. How I got here:

I have a background in event planning at the residence of the British Ambassador to the US in Washington, DC, an MBA from George Washington University, and several years of experience in brand management for Johnson & Johnson Consumer and Alterna Haircare. When my mother died in a car crash in 2018, I immersed myself in our shared love of gardening, doing everything she had done before me. I became an Advanced Master Gardener through UConn, joined the garden club and became president, joined the pollinator pathway steering committee, and volunteered in gardens all over. I created a book of my mother’s garden photos and her monthly chore list for the family, ending it with “I’ll look for you in the flowers.” Not realizing it at the time, I would quite literally do that. Nomadica was originally created and launched two weeks before my mom died as a website that sold goods made by women from all over the world. I struggled with it for the year after she passed, working too hard for each sale I made. Meanwhile, I was learning about gardens and plants, some would call it obsessively. I took the Floret class, NYBG classes, Tulip Workshop class, and anything else I could find online, watching at night while my family slept. I created a magical home garden for my family on a busy corner in Weston, and people started asking me for help in their gardens. Initially, I declined, noting that I was busy with a struggling start-up. Finally, after receiving another note left by a kind person in my mailbox and with Ozvaldo, now my crew lead, willing to leave his other job to work with me, I realized I could do what I loved each day for work. I pivoted quickly, sold the inventory, and the new version of Nomadica was born. I kept the name Nomadica because the meaning of it is based on my approach to living. I am driven by curiosity and fueled by learning. The allure of being a nomad, meaning to travel frequently, reminds me of adventure and learning new things. I don’t believe that traveling is the only way to experience that feeling. It can happen in your everyday life, if you are curious enough. I wanted to give that feeling and approach to living a name. When you are in a state of Nomadica, you are curious about the world around you, and that’s when the real magic starts. Happy Gardening,

Christina Koether

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When I arrange flowers, I pick one flower as my starting inspiration and then walk around the garden, picking anything I...
06/03/2026

When I arrange flowers, I pick one flower as my starting inspiration and then walk around the garden, picking anything I want to put with it.

This Lorelei peony, second slide, is the one I started with here. She’s a top-five peony favorite of mine. I planted her a few years ago and finally got some stunning blooms this year. Of course, I’ve already ordered more for fall with no clear idea where I’ll plant them. But I always find space!

When I design perennial or cutting gardens, I choose a palette of plants so there is always something to cut and bring inside, even in winter. Staying connected to nature and in sync with the rhythm of the wild is restorative, grounding, and, of course, beautiful.

I’d love to help you connect more deeply with your outdoor space, whether that’s a few containers or several acres. Please book a consultation directly through my website to get started. Link in bio.

05/30/2026

Peony season is in full swing. A few tips:

Only pick 1/3 - 1/2 of the booms per plant. And only take the stem length you need, leaving as many leaves as possible to feed and grow the rhizomes for even bigger plants next year.

For the longest vase life, pick when buds are closed but soft like a marshmallow

Given them a gentle swing around to get ants and spiders off

Don’t smell the coral peonies. They smell like a wet dog. Or maybe it’s stale stinky socks.

bam pot making everything more beautiful

05/29/2026

Cypripedium kentuckiense, the Kentucky lady’s slipper, is the largest native lady’s slipper orchid in North America.

The inflated pouch functions as a trap. Small bees enter expecting a floral reward and find none. Unable to climb the smooth inner walls, they cannot simply turn around and leave. Instead, they are guided toward small exit openings at the back of the pouch. To escape, they must squeeze past the flower’s reproductive structures, depositing pollen from a previous flower or picking up a fresh load before exiting.

Like all lady’s slippers, its seeds are extraordinarily small and contain almost no stored energy. Germination depends on a symbiotic relationship with specialized soil fungi, which provide nutrients during the plant’s earliest stages of development.

I purchased this plant from Oliver Nurseries in Fairfield years ago and planted it along the edge of my stream, where it has steadily settled in. Because it emerges relatively late in spring, I keep a permanent iron marker in place to avoid accidentally stepping on it before the shoots appear.

In its native range, Cypripedium kentuckiense grows in rich alluvial soils along floodplains and moist woodland edges throughout portions of the southeastern United States.

thank you M!

05/26/2026

Playing with some of my bearded iris from

Using a vase by

05/25/2026

If you had a late frost like we did in Weston CT this spring, it may have killed all the buds on your Hydrangea macrophylla like these here.

You’ll know, because only a few of the buds on those stalks from last year will have leaves emerging right now. It’s time to call it what it is, and cut them back. Not only will it look silly if you leave them, with one or two blooms off a long stick, but you want the plant to focus on good growth for potential later season blooms on new stalks and setting it up for a good bloom next year.

Cut them down, spread some compost around the plant if you have some, and move on!

05/22/2026

I spent the afternoon Chelsea chopping like a mad woman. Few plants remained untouched. I hit all of the catmint, veronia, sedum, New England aster, Joe pye, Veronicastrum, Agastache, boneset, and even some mint.

This chore is well worth the late summer reward of avoiding flopping and splaying. Every year I run out of time to do it in May, I regret not making it a priority.

05/21/2026

Calycanthus (the first one) is the straight native sweetshrub found in eastern North American woodlands. Calycanthus × ‘Aphrodite’ is a modern hybrid bred for larger flowers, heavier blooming, and more ornamental impact in the garden.

The straight native species has smaller maroon flowers with a strange texture somewhere between a magnolia and a waterlily. The blooms often hide within the foliage instead of sitting above it. Depending on the individual plant, the scent can smell like strawberries, fermenting fruit, red wine, spice, or almost nothing at all. Even wild populations vary.

The bark and leaves are aromatic too. Early settlers reportedly used the bark as a substitute for cinnamon, which is how it picked up the common name “Carolina allspice.”

‘Aphrodite’ is the modern hybrid version. Much larger flowers. Glossy foliage. Longer bloom season. The flowers can reach nearly the size of a hand and are bred to be more outward facing and dramatic in the landscape.

One of the most interesting things about the native species is that its flowers are pollinated mainly by beetles, not bees. It is an ancient pollination strategy that dates back far earlier than many modern flowering plants. The flowers evolved thick fleshy petals and spicy, fermented scents because beetles were some of the earliest pollinators on earth.

05/16/2026

It’s that time of year in the Northeast to pick invasive dame’s rocket and make yourself a bouquet. Just make sure you’re picking the right flower.

Native wild geranium, Geranium maculatum, is blooming now too, but it’s shorter and has a very different leaf. Don’t pick that one. Native pollinators need it.

One of them is the native mining bee Andrena geranii, which likes wild geranium so much it was literally named after it. Side bar cool fact, its seed pods spring load and catapult away from the plant when they mature.

Dame’s rocket is typically 2–3 feet tall, looks a bit like garden phlox from a distance, and has 4 petals per flower. Native phlox and Geranium maculatum have 5.

Dame’s rocket is invasive across much of the Northeast and crowds out the native plants our pollinators evolved alongside. So go pick like crazy, make a bouquet for the house, and you’re helping stop the seed spread.

Note: this approach doesn’t apply to all invasives. Many can spread from a just a tiny root fragment or berry. This is the only one I promote picking.

05/13/2026

Plants know how to raise one’s spirits, how to cure one’s ills, how to be companions without the necessity of audible conversation. I expect this, and more, of them. They usually deliver.

When they do not, I can usually trace the cause to my not having met their expectations. These are normally simple: enough light, but not too much; enough water, but not too much; enough food, but not too much, and of the right kind.

Spring flowers are coming to a close, and the last of my tulips are fading just as this lilac begins to open. Beauty comes and goes.

13 years working in this garden, and this was the first time I stopped to admire this little spot.

Some of my mother’s notes combined with mine

05/10/2026

Happy Mother’s Day from the garden.

From my mother’s notes:

Gardening involves questions of appearance, of feel, and of understanding of what one is working with. Success comes from beyond, from the growth of the gardener as a participant in the act of gardening. Without being a gardener, one can show a garden and be a good host or hostess in a garden. That may give some enough satisfaction, but many of us desire more.

One cannot be a good gardener unless one likes the land.

The interaction between gardener, plants and the land is the most important sharing, because for the gardener the ultimate satisfaction is not what others think of one, but what one’s plants think of one, which will ultimately depend on whether or not one has been gentle with the land.

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