Garden Goddess
. This is how the New York Post describes about Rebecca cloe. And E! says, Rebecca is a designer with boundless energy and limitless imagination. These words say it all about Rebecca cole, a garden, floral, and interior designer. Besides, she is an acclaimed author of many books on designing.
She is the founder of Cole Creates, a retail and design business, and she appears regularly on television and radio shows and in print publications. She is a regular contributor on the Today show, and has appeared on Oprah. Rebecca has been hosting the Discovery Channels Surprise by Design since its inception in 2002.
Rebecca began her design business twelve years ago at first concentrating on garden and floral design. Two years later, one book under her belt, she branched out into interior design and opened a store containing all three passions called Potted Gardens. Television appearances, magazines and more books followed.
Rebecca Cole's aesthetic is exclusive and unique. She has tips on everything from creating the perfect floral arrangement for an intimate dinner for two to designing events for 500 people with flowers meant to impress the crème de la crème.
- Book: Flower Power: Fresh, Fabulous Arrangements by Rebecca Cole - Saying it with flowers becomes a creative pleasure when arrangements are as original as they are beautiful. In Flower Power, the author, Rebecca Cole explains how to create lush, hip, simple, and elegant arrangements to make any occasion memorable, from a dinner for two to a wedding attended by hundreds. Both exquisite and irreverent, her bouquets combine the classic with the quirkysumptuous roses with crisp celery stalks.
- Book: Potted Gardens: A Fresh Approach to Container Gardening - Cole introduces a whole new way to gardening in this book. Using any container - from the bed of a toy truck to a bedpan - and any kind of plant - from rose to weed - would-be gardeners can follow Rebecca's guidance and plant a bit of beauty in a corner of their homes or gardens. Potted Gardens is the everyday companion for the new and experienced container gardener alike.
- Book: Paradise Found: Gardening in Unlikely Places - A gorgeous book by Cole full of glossy, inspiring photos, Paradise Found is a treasure for anyone attempting to fashion a garden on a terrace, rooftop, or other unusual spot. At first glance, you may think the text is superfluous in the pages of sun-filled statuary and foliage, but don't let the beauty distract you from the details. Enclosed here is a wealth of ideas for creating stunning and unusual gardens in spots that are currently barren brick or wood.
- Quill and Trowel Award for her book, Potted Gardens.