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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09/03/2026

Bouquet ingredients:

Rudbeckia Sahara mix
Dahlia Boom Boom White
Dahlia Jane Cowl
Dahlia Maarn
Black Eyed Susan
Celosia (saved from seeds, no name)
Pycnanthemum flexuosum

Happy flowering!

09/01/2026

My husband put a sticky note on the kitchen cabinet door I repeatedly break, with the words, GENTLE. SLOW. After fixing it this most recent time. I laughed.

And then I got this second reminder from one of my favorite garden friends, while I was pruning out diseased tomato plant leaves.

I paused and took a breath. I thought you might need the reminder too.

08/19/2026

The garlic is cured, and now I’m cleaning it up and sorting it.

I grow German Extra Hardy, and after a few weeks curing in the basement, the necks are dry, the wrappers are papery and it’s ready to deal with.

I trim the roots, cut back the stalks and brush off the loose dirt. No washing.

Then I make three piles:

Eat now: Small heads, split heads, anything damaged or with loose wrappers. Nothing wrong with them, they just won’t store as long.

Eat over the next few months: Firm, well-cured heads with intact paper shell.

Plant this fall: The biggest, healthiest heads from the best plants. I save these whole until planting time, then break them into cloves and plant the largest ones.

This is one of my favorite parts of growing garlic because you’re already choosing next year’s crop while you’re putting this year’s away. Save the best performers and, over time, you’re selecting garlic that does well in your own garden.

If you don’t grow garlic, this is also a good time to order seed garlic for fall planting. I like Keene Garlic Farm and German Extra Hardy is my favorite reliable and tasty variety.

08/14/2026

Rudbeckia hirta ‘Cherry Brandy’
Filipendula rubra
Rubus ‘Navaho’
Physostegia virginiana

In a Frances Palmer Pottery Sabine vase

We have flowers for the table…now I just need to figure out what I’ll feed my children tonight.

08/10/2026

I have a patch of sunflowers I plant every year from seed I save. It’s a genetic mix of all my favorites planted a few years ago. As they bloom, I cut down anything deemed too pedestrian to stop cross pollination with the ones I love.

This was the first big cull. I took out any plain singles which have pretty much been perfected by the pro-cut series, and left anything with unique colors or double forms.

Every year is a fun treasure hunt. What gets cut is still either used in floral work or enjoyed by my family. Dried heads before seed is collected dot our fall table as decoration.

While this method isn’t too scientific or precise, it sure is fun.

08/09/2026

Happy Sunday playing with flowers.

Allium millennium
Camelot foxgloves
Boneset
Hydrangea
Double click cosmos
Quicksilver rose

In Frances Palmer Pottery terracotta

08/08/2026

Sambucus canadensis, American elderberry, is one of those plants that makes a landscape beautiful, biologically functional, and edible all at once.

It’s a fast growing native shrub that usually reaches around 10 feet tall and can spread just as wide by suckering. It naturally grows along streambanks, wet woods, ditches, and field edges, so it’s especially good at handling consistently moist soil. It flowers best and fruits most heavily in full sun, but it will tolerate part shade.

The flat, creamy white flower clusters appear in early summer and attract a wide range of native insects, including small bees, beetles, flies, and wasps. By late summer, those flowers turn into clusters of deep purple black berries that are an important food source for many songbirds and other wildlife.

The fruit is also nutritionally interesting. Elderberries are especially high in anthocyanins, the pigments that give them their dark color, and they contain vitamin C and other polyphenols.

One important detail that gets glossed over too often: elderberries are not meant to be eaten raw in quantity. Raw or underripe berries can cause nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea because they contain cyanogenic compounds. The leaves, stems, and other green parts should not be eaten. The ripe berries are traditionally cooked before use.

American elderberry is also often more productive when there’s another genetically different elderberry nearby for cross pollination, so planting more than one can improve fruit set.

Deer will feast on the shrub, so make sure it’s protected.

I’m incredibly happy to share that I’m teaching a class on dahlias at the New York Botanical Gardens in person, with the...
08/07/2026

I’m incredibly happy to share that I’m teaching a class on dahlias at the New York Botanical Gardens in person, with the first one this fall and another next spring. The link is live to sign up and is linked below!

I can still vividly remember thinking 15+ years ago that dahlias were too much effort, and that anything I had to dig up and store wasn’t for me. Then I took a course offered through the Advanced Master Gardener program, and the instructor casually mentioned that we could treat them as annuals if digging and storing was too much.

That was my gateway: her permission to treat a few as annuals. I grew a few that year, and I was hooked.

Fast forward, and now I grow beds upon beds full of them, dig and store tubers, save seeds, divide, and last winter they took over my basement in pots alongside my tulip forcing program.

I’d love for you to join me and spend a few hours learning all about their history, how to grow them, how to dig, divide, store, and so much more.

In the meantime, mine are finally blooming, and I’m excited to see some of the new varieties I added to the collection this year.

https://www.enrole.com/nybg/jsp/instructorDetail.jsp?instructorId=CFA8B7B0

08/04/2026

Well wishes from a soggy garden from me and my garden friends.

08/02/2026

Hollister House Garden in Connecticut, designed by George Schoellkopf, is worth a visit every season.

This time, I noticed how the Grey Garden is experienced in sequence. Visitors first see the deep burgundy foliage of the trees forming the backdrop on the far side. Only later, when turning back toward the house, does the same color reappear in the home.

That repetition helps connect the garden to the house without making the relationship feel obvious or overly coordinated. The color moves through the composition at different scales in the trees, the urn, the planting, and finally the home itself.

It is a useful reminder that color in landscape design is not limited to flowers. Foliage, containers, structures, and distant views can all be part of the same palette. Even the colors of trees on adjacent properties are part of the consideration. The effect here is especially strong because the relationship is revealed gradually as you move through the garden.

I would be curious to know which came first: the house color, or the planting choices around it. What do you think?

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