Wildstone Botanica is a botanical design
studio led by floral artist Leanne Smith,
working at the intersection of art, nature
and spatial storytelling.
The practice is rooted in observation:
the curve of a branch,
the weight of seedpods,
the pause between light and shadow.
From these quiet beginnings, installations emerge sculptural, textural and emotionally composed. Designed to shape atmosphere
and alter how a space is felt.
This is floristry reimagined as an art
practice: slow, deliberate and deeply
attentive to material intelligence and mood.
Wildstone Botanica works across:
Life’s Milestones
Atmospheric, design-led celebrations for
individuals and couples who value subtlety, authorship and emotional clarity.
Brand & Editorial
Conceptual botanical installations for
fashion, fragrance, interiors and cultural projects where narrative and visual
intelligence matter.
Installations & Spaces
Site-responsive work for venues, private residences and events, shaped by
architecture, light and movement.
THE PRACTICE
Project 01
SELECTED WORKS Across gatherings, editorial commissions and spatial installations.
Bountiful petals for moments of union and gathering.
Arrangements composed with tenderness
and restraint, allowing texture and tone to do the speaking. Abundance, offered in honour of connection, ceremony and shared time.
Project 02
Inspired by the slow abundance of Suffolk meadows and the saturated textures
encountered while travelling, this ground installation explored density without heaviness.
Botanical layers were allowed to gather close to the earth, forming a soft terrain of stems, grasses and flowering forms: part landscape, part memory, shaped by both home and elsewhere.
Project 03
Created for Strawberry Hill House, this Everlasting Goddess Crown balanced
light, drama and fragility. Drawing on the shadowed romance of gothic architecture and the dark folklore of Rhiannon, the Celtic moon goddess who commanded songbirds to awaken souls in the underworld.
Botanical forms gathered like a quiet spell, part garden, part apparition, moving between tenderness and unease. A design shaped by authority and stillness, where enchantment lingered at the edge of darkness.
Raised among the wide, weathered
landscapes of Suffolk, her sensibility was shaped early by hedgerows, coastlines, wind-bent grasses and the slow drama of seasonal change.
Before Wildstone became a studio, it was simply a way of seeing: noticing how nature composes itself through tension, repetition, erosion, and stillness.
Today, her work sits between botanical design and sculpture: informed by artists and spatial thinkers as much as florists; grounded in material curiosity and emotional restraint.
Leanne works intuitively, and with
attention to detail, collaborating closely with clients while holding a clear,
assured point of view.
ABOUT LEANNE
THE JOURNALNotes on form, landscape and the
emotional life of materials.
Observations that begin in fields and hedgerows, in shadow and structure, in
the quiet intelligence of natural things and slowly find their way into the work.
A place for texture, rhythm and
reflection. Written without hurry.
