From the Val d’Orcia, wild flowers and three sisters with a dream

05 september 2016

Take three young sisters, born and raised in the Val d’Orcia hills. Add a deep love for nature, flowers, and plants, and the desire to transform their passion into a work project of a lifetime. The result is Puscina (www.puscinaflowers.com), an original estate in the countryside between Pienza and Montepulciano, ready to offer comprehensive services that start from the cultivation of native species of plants and culminates in floral arrangements for events and weddings.

 

Photo credit: Lelia Scarfiotti

Photo credit: Lelia Scarfiotti

Over the last few years, Laura, Teresa and Mara Cugusi have built, with hard work and patience, a very beautiful 1,000 square meter garden - including greenhouses - where they grow over 300 varieties of flowers and local plants; they have also recovered old seeds from the territory. The founding principles are seasonality and respect for nature, and for this reason, they only use sustainable agricultural practices.
Their style is a mix of simplicity and elegance, for results that are always chic and original: they work with wild flowers, aromatic herbs, ceramics, and vintage glass, and, thanks to their great eclecticism, they are able to create decorate for rustic chic as well as the most sophisticated events.


Photo credit: Lelia Scarfiotti

Photo credit: Lelia Scarfiotti

Their latest efforts were for a project called Slow Flowers (http://slowflowers.tumblr.com) with a team of various other weddings professionals - photographers, videographers, and floral designers – they gave life to a collective project that aimed to spread the latest trends in international floral design even in Italy based on valorizing local products. The principle is the same as the one that regulates organic food and agriculture: investing in local products means valorizing special resources in each territory, creating jobs, reducing costs and pollution from exporting abroad.
All this was made possible also thanks to an event in Gaiole in Chianti, whose first edition is set for Spring 2017, where selected floral designers will give life to original installations in the charming location of Podernovi, a country home on the famous Barone Ricasoli estate where "Stealing Beauty" by Bernardo Bertolucci was filmed in 1994.

Photo credit: Lelia Scarfiotti

Photo credit: Lelia Scarfiotti

Photo credit: Puscina

Photo credit: Puscina

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