Lost and Found

This large-format photography book follows the flowers of the year, moving from one season to the next. Its botanical flat-lays arrange blooms and foliage into carefully composed scenes, and each spread introduces one of fifteen invented creative figures whose lives have been shaped by the natural world. Readers can also hunt for small hidden objects tucked among the petals and leaves.

The photographs come from Zoë Field, a grower and florist whose work is rooted in her flower-filled home in Gisborne, New Zealand. She draws on both her camera skills and her knowledge of flowers, and the book closes with lists of plants that could inspire a garden, pitched at gardeners of any experience level.

Field intends the book as a gentle break from everyday life, a set of images meant to be explored slowly, page by page, much like wandering a garden path. It is aimed at readers of all ages who want to notice the small details that a season offers.