Garden Phoenix · Field Archive
Those who announced themselves. Those who earned their names.
A specimen is named when it distinguishes itself — through color, form, stability, or something harder to name. These are the ones the field remembered.
Queens reign within their form — Phoenixes refuse it — Phoenix Queens hold both crowns
132 documented specimens
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GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Opalescent · BP: Heavy Plume · Season: 2025
Dense, chunky plumes with a prismatic sheen that shifts in the light. She doesn't so much bloom as perform. Maximum expression, zero restraint.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Saturated Rose · BP: Mixed · Season: 2025
Committed to the color in the way that only celosia can be — not pink as an accent, but pink as a declaration. The field in full voice.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Lemon + Chartreuse · BP: Feathered · Season: 2025
She arrives like a complete statement — bright, layered, unapologetic. The kind of yellow-green that makes everything around it more awake. An entire season in a single plant.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: High Contrast Pink · Season: 2025
Something in the contrast is the whole point — the field placing light and dark pink side by side as if asking a question about how much difference a shade can make.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Coral + Candy Red · BP: Heavy Plume · Season: 2025
Coral sliding into candy red, sweet-toned and abundant. Dense plumes that catch the late afternoon light like something lit from within. Generous, warm, unedited.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Tomato Red + Strawberry · BP: Torch · Season: 2025
Two reds that shouldn't be the same and aren't. Tomato — heavy, warm, opaque. Strawberry — bright, transparent, sweet. The field staging a side-by-side argument about what red means.
GP · Cristata · 2025
F: Cristata · CF: Sunrise + Aged Warm Tones · BP: Ruffled Crest · Season: 2025
Ruffled crest edges in sunrise colors that look like they've been through something — muted, complex, warm. The kind of beauty that accumulates. A whole morning in a crown.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Deep Magenta · Season: 9-17-25
Pure magenta, no apology. The field producing a frequency so precise and saturated it almost reads as signal rather than color.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Bridal Tones · Season: 9-29-25
The field in its most romantic register — soft, layered, luminous. The kind of beauty that makes a person stop walking and just stand there.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Full Carnival Spectrum · Season: 9-30-25
Exuberant. Every color in conversation at once. The kind of mix that reads like a summer that doesn't know how to end — hot, abundant, unapologetically alive.
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GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Yellow through Chartreuse · Season: 10-29-25
The full yellow conversation — from pale butter to electric chartreuse, every register of the warm-light end of the spectrum documented in a single season.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · Season: 11-1-25
A named mix — the field's offering to a specific moment, held in a cluster of plumes that speak in the same register. The kind of grouping that tells a story together.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Rose Gold + Vintage Gold + Blush · Season: 11-13-25
A color study in the warm, aged tones — rose gold shifting into vintage gold, blush threading through. The palette of something that has been through time and arrived more beautiful for it.
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GP · Plumosa · Flowers & Weeds 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Cantaloupe · New Genes: Flowers & Weeds · Season: 11-8-25
Soft melon tones from the new gene studies — the field experimenting in the warm, ripe end of the orange spectrum. What happens when those genetics meet this soil.
GP · Plumosa · Flowers & Weeds 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Tropical Fruit Tones · New Genes: Flowers & Weeds · Season: 11-8-25
Three fruits, three frequencies of tropical warmth — documented together because the field gave them together. A new palette arriving through the F&W gene line.
GP · Plumosa · Flowers & Weeds 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Raspberry + Lemon · New Genes: Flowers & Weeds · Season: 11-8-25
Pink-red and bright yellow in the same conversation — the contrast that makes both colors more themselves. From the F&W gene studies: a combination no one planned for.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Roman Red + Deep Crimson · BP: Torch · Season: 11-8-25
The red of old things — architecture, wine, dried blood, antiquity. Upright torches in the specific dark crimson that feels like it has been here before.
GP · Flowers & Weeds · Jar Two
F: Plumosa · New Genes: Flowers & Weeds · Season: 8-18-25
The second jar from the F&W new gene studies — documenting what emerges from specific seed populations before the field decides what they are. Early-stage witnessing.
GP · Flowers & Weeds · Jar Three
F: Plumosa · New Genes: Flowers & Weeds · Season: 11-8-25
Third in the F&W gene sequence. Each jar holds a separate line — what the archive looks like from seed forward, before the field has spoken.
GP · Flowers & Weeds · Jar Four
F: Plumosa · New Genes: Flowers & Weeds · Season: 11-8-25
Fourth jar, fourth line. The F&W studies as a set: four documented populations, each beginning from the same question — what will you become if we let you?
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Deep Rose · BP: Multi-Branched · Season: 2025
October 31st harvest. Deep rose-pink plumosa with rich, layered branching — the darkest, most saturated pink plumes of the season. Named for the date they were cut.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Blush · BP: Mixed · Season: 2025
The season's finest blush expressions gathered in one study. A curated selection documenting the full range of soft pink variation in the 2025 plumosa population.
GP · Cristata · 2025
F: Cristata · CF: Chartreuse · BP: Lobed Fan · Season: 2025
Lime and gold fan forms with rust-edged lobes and deep cranberry stems. The green arrives late in the season as temperatures shift — one of the more unusual colorways in the field.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Cotton Candy Pink · BP: Open Branched · Season: 2025
Large, soft cotton candy pink plumes with an open, airy branching structure. The lightness of the form is the defining quality — nothing dense about it.
GP · Cristata · 2025
F: Cristata · CF: Cream · BP: Compact Rounded Head · Season: 2025
Tiny globular heads in cream and vanilla with pink buds emerging at the tips. A box study of early-stage compact cristata expressions — the smallest scale the crest form takes.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Honey Gold to Blush · BP: Single Arching Spike · Season: 2025
A single elongated spike arching gracefully from cranberry stem to honey gold at the crown, fading to blush and mauve at the tip. The whole plant is one continuous color study.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Bronze · BP: Dense Multi-Head · Season: 2025
True bronze — a warm golden-brown with no pink or purple drift. Dense, seed-heavy plumes at full maturity. End-of-season depth that doesn't exist in the catalogues.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Dusty Blush · BP: Ruffled Plume · Season: 2025
Softly ruffled plumes in an antique faded blush. The dusty quality reads as a glaze over the warm pink — muted, powdery, quiet.
GP · Cristata · 2025
F: Cristata · CF: Fiesta Rose · BP: Fan Crest · Season: 2025
Bold rose-toned cristata fans with vivid color saturation and strong crest formation. The fiesta quality is in the brightness — no fading, no dusting, just presence.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Pink · BP: Dense Plume-Spike · Season: 2025
Upright pink spikes with an unusual plumosa-like texture layered over the spicate structure. The form holds the spike architecture while borrowing the surface quality of the plume.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Unknown · BP: Mixed · Source: Flowers & Weeds
First jar from the Flowers & Weeds gene introduction — specimens from an outside grower, documented separately as new genetic material entering the GP population. Plumosa-dominant, mixed variety.
GP · Phoenix Form · 2025
F: Phoenix Form · CF: Deep Magenta · Surface: Velvet · Season: 2025
A population spread in deep magenta-purple with a velvety surface sheen. The documentation board reveals the full range of Phoenix expression — some pure plumosa branching, others showing the first emergence of cristata structure.
GP · Phoenix Form · 2025
F: Phoenix Form · CF: Blush · BP: Swept Fin Terminal · Season: 2025
Fan-shaped terminal heads sweeping into the light with a fin-like arc. Blush and cream dusted. Neither plume nor crest — the form invents its own category and holds it completely.
GP · Phoenix Form · 2025
F: Phoenix Form · CF: Midnight Purple · BP: Heavy Complex Branching · Season: 2025
The darkest expression in the Phoenix population — deeper than Mercury Velvet, the midnight end of the spectrum. Dense, complex branching with the full weight of the season in it.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Papaya · BP: Mixed Plume · Season: 2025
A warm tropical palette in one study — papaya orange, honeydew, and soft coral plumes. The field producing the colors of fruit at peak ripeness.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata → Cristata · CF: Cream-Blush · BP: Spike with Terminal Crest · Season: 2025
Spicata specimens mid-transformation — the upright spike form with the first cristata crest structures beginning to form at the terminal. Active morphological transition, documented in real time.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata → Plumosa · CF: Tropical Gold to Blush · BP: Form Transition · Season: 2025
One stem doing two things simultaneously — plumosa texture at the crown, spicata structure below, with a tropical warm-gold to blush color shift from tip to base. The name is the observation.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Mixed · BP: Mixed Plume · Location: Potting Shed · Season: 2025
Potting Shed population study — plumosa specimens from the greenhouse attached to the potting shed, documented in early October. PS in the name marks where this material was found.
GP · Cristata · 2025
F: Cristata · CF: Deep Red · BP: Heavy Fan Crest · Season: 2025
Deep red cristata fans at full crest expression. Chunky, dense, uncompromising. The red end of the cristata population pushing as far as it goes.
GP · Phoenix Form · 2025
F: Phoenix Form · CF: Lavender-Mauve · Surface: Dusty-Velvet · Season: 2025
Dusty lavender and cream with an aged, confectionary surface quality. Seeds visible at the base mark the transition to seed production. The palest, softest Phoenix in this season's documentation.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Deep Coral-Pink · BP: Multi-Crown · Season: 2025
Documented in the field. A multi-crowned plumosa of exceptional scale, photographed standing above the surrounding plants with the full 2025 population visible behind it. Deep coral-pink crown, warm orange-red below. The name earned.
GP · Phoenix Form · 2025
F: Phoenix Form · CF: Violet-Purple · Season: 2025
Jewel-toned violet-purple Phoenix plumes with a rich, saturated depth. The violet register of the Phoenix population, distinct from the blue-purple of the Midnight specimens.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Antique Rose · Surface: Velvet · Season: 2025
Early-season velvet plumosa with an antique, aged quality to the coloring. First documented September 30, 2025 — the season's beginning, carrying the depth that only comes from a full summer in the field.
GP · Phoenix Form · 2025
F: Phoenix Form · CF: Warm-Strange · Season: 2025
A Phoenix specimen with an otherworldly presence — warm and strange in equal measure. Named for the place that can't be reached by ordinary routes.
GP · Plumosa · True Line
F: Plumosa · CF: Rosefire + Ember · SH: Molten Core · H: 5–6' · IT: Feathered · BP: Fountain · SC: True Line
She runs hot and deep — the rosefire bleeds into ember at every tip. A true line: seed her and she comes back the same. Fountain branching, freely given.
GP · Spicata · True Line
F: Spicata · CF: Ghostlight · SH: Pale Glow · H: 4–5' · IT: Feathered · BP: Torch · SC: True Line
Ghostlight in its truest expression — a pale torch, almost translucent in morning light. Elegant, solitary, singular of purpose. She holds her form across generations.
GP · Phoenix Form · Phoenix Fire
F: Phoenix Form · CF: Cinder/Ash + Rosefire · SH: Smoke Veil · IT: Molten · BP: Labyrinth · SC: Phoenix Fire · ST: Aurora Shift
Bronze meeting rose. She shifts between readings depending on light and angle — copper at midday, rose at dusk. Aurora Shift in full expression.
GP · Cristata · Phoenix Fire
F: Cristata → Phoenix Form · CF: Rosefire · SH: Deep Ember · IT: Armored · BP: Crown · SC: Phoenix Fire · ST: Phoenix Form
She starts cristata and refuses to stay there. By peak season she has become something in between — a crested crown dissolving into sculptural form. She is her own category.
GP · Plumosa · Phoenix Fire
F: Plumosa · CF: Haze + Rosefire · SH: Smoke Veil · IT: Feathered · BP: Fountain · SC: Phoenix Fire · ST: Smoke Veil + Aurora Shift
Lavender crossing into pink crossing into something unnamed. The Smoke Veil over her shifts with the humidity. She is never quite the same twice, and she knows it.
GP · Cristata · True Line
F: Cristata · CF: Ember · SH: Molten Core · H: 6'+ · IT: Armored · BP: Crown · SC: True Line · ST: Ascendant + Phoenix Form
Pure ember. Armored texture, deep saturated red, Ascendant in full. The crown at the top of her looks like something from another world. She breeds true and she breeds bold.
GP · Phoenix Form · Phoenix Fire
F: Phoenix Form (Mosaic) · CF: Ember + Rosefire · SH: Molten Core · IT: Feathered + Armored · BP: Labyrinth · SC: Phoenix Fire · ST: Aurora Shift + Phoenix Form
The labyrinth fully expressed. She carries Cristata in one arm and Plumosa in the other and wears them simultaneously. A living mosaic. She is the Phoenix Form at its most honest.
GP · Phoenix Form · Phoenix Fire
F: Phoenix Form · CF: Smoke + Haze · SH: Smoke Veil · IT: Feathered · BP: Labyrinth · SC: Phoenix Fire · ST: Smoke Veil + Aurora Shift + Phoenix Form
Purple and lavender wrapped in a dusty veil. She is shadow-colored and sculptural. The rarest hue in the field. She doesn't announce herself loudly — you have to stop and find her.
GP · Plumosa · True Line
F: Plumosa · CF: Ember + Rosefire · SH: Molten Core · H: 4–5' · IT: Feathered · BP: Fountain · SC: True Line · ST: Crown / Fountain
Saturated and loud and proud of it. The raspberry is electric — there is no dusty veil here, no apology. She is exactly what she looks like, and she looks like a celebration.
GP · Spicata · True Line
F: Spicata · CF: Flame + Sunfire · SH: Steady Flame · H: 4–5' · IT: Feathered · BP: Torch · SC: True Line · MP: Relic + Legacy
Orange to yellow in a single stem. She dries beautifully and holds her color long after the season closes. A Relic in the truest sense — she carries the fire through winter.
GP · Plumosa · Phoenix Fire
F: Plumosa · CF: Rosefire + Smoke · SH: Deep Ember · IT: Feathered · BP: Crown · SC: Phoenix Fire · ST: Aurora Shift
Wine-dark and deep. She arrives differently each season — the smoke shifts, the rose deepens or lightens, but there is always something wine-red at her heart. The name arrived before she was fully herself.
GP · Plumosa · Phoenix Fire
F: Plumosa · CF: Ember + Haze · SH: Molten Core · H: 5–6' · IT: Feathered · BP: Fountain · SC: Phoenix Fire · ST: Aurora Shift
The name she came in with. Something about her reads as lipstick — a saturated red that tips into cool, something that makes you look twice. Aurora Shift in a plume form. She is the whole conversation.
GP · Cristata · 2025
F: Cristata · CF: Antique Orange + Sage · Season: 2025
A single peachy-orange crest in muted antique tones — earthy, unhurried, the color of old copper left out in the rain.
GP · Cristata · 2025
F: Cristata · CF: Blush + Cream + Peach · Season: 2025
Branching Cristata crests in soft pink, cream, and peach — a single plant flowering in multiple heads, each one a delicate antique ruffle.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Deep Crimson + Scarlet · Season: 2025
Deep saturated crimson-red torches burning at full intensity. A Spicata Queen at the height of her season, holding nothing back.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Dusty Mauve + Purple-Brown · Season: 2025
A Spicata form that broke into Plumosa, softening every edge on the way out. Dusty mauve and purple-brown — a Phoenix in the gentlest register.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Peachy Pink + Berry · Season: 2025
Soft peachy-pink and berry tones in an early, unhurried form — a Spicata still finding its depth, sweet and not yet finished.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Dusty Blush + Rose · Season: 2025
Drooping cascading torches in the most unusual dusty blush-rose — a Spicata Queen with the bearing of a weeping willow at dusk.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Deep Cardinal Red · Season: 2025
Deep cardinal red in full, multi-branch Plumosa — the color of a bishop’s robe at the exact moment before ceremony begins.
GP · Cristata · 2025
F: Cristata · CF: Citrus + Sage Green · Season: 2025
A Cristata crest with a Spicata companion on the same stem — citrus and sage tones, unharvested and wild, doing things on their own terms.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Coral + Salmon · Season: 2025
Soft coral and salmon Spicata in early development — multiple branching stems catching light before the season turns and asks for more.
GP · Cristata · 2025
F: Cristata · CF: Rust Orange + Fire · Season: 2025
A wide cup-shaped Cristata crest with rust-orange fire along its rim — worn upward like a crown receiving its own light.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Magenta + Fuchsia · Season: 2025
Vivid magenta-fuchsia Spicata torches with Cristata ruffling breaking at the tips — transformation mid-act, caught on film.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Vivid Magenta + Purple · Season: 2025
Vivid magenta-purple arching Plumosa photographed in the field at full flame — the whole plant lit from within on a late summer morning.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Ivory + Cream · Season: 2025
Ivory-cream wheat Spicata in abundance — the contrast of pale drooping forms against deep wine-red stems is quiet and completely extraordinary.
GP · Cristata · 2025
F: Cristata · CF: Chartreuse + Blush · Season: 2025
Chartreuse-yellow with soft blush edges — a Cristata Queen in the most theatrical color combination the garden produced this year.
GP · Cristata · 2025
F: Cristata · CF: Peach + Cream · Season: 2025
A wide spreading Cristata with Spicata spiking through — the form diverged mid-season and kept going in both directions at once.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Electric Magenta + Purple · Season: 2025
Deep electric magenta-purple Plumosa in a bundled harvest — a color so saturated it reads as its own light source.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Raspberry + Crimson · Season: 2025
Raspberry-rose and crimson Spicata in compact drooping form — vivid even in miniature, holding its fire past the season’s turn.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Vivid Scarlet + Orange · Season: 2025
Vivid orange-red Plumosa with a deep burgundy center — a single stem hanging like a torch that forgot to go out.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Pink + Mauve · Season: 2025
A Phoenix of enormous scale still in the field — pink and mauve at early development, the colossus still becoming what it will be.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Blush + Soft Pink · Season: 2025
Small compact Plumosa pom-poms in blush, cream, and soft pink — a junior member of the Gelato lineage, compact and uncomplicated.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Deep Crimson + Magenta · Season: 2025
Deep crimson-magenta Spicata with dramatically curling torchheads — a Queen with a theatrical temper at full expression.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Vivid Scarlet + Red · Season: 2025
From the Inferno Queen lineage — a Phoenix that rose as Plumosa, vivid scarlet-red and enormous, ascending past its origin form entirely.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Pure Ivory + White · Season: 2025
Pure ivory-cream Spicata on white — a Queen in near-total silence. The color of old porcelain held up to winter light, asking nothing.
GP · Cristata · 2025
F: Cristata · CF: Jewel Purple + Fuchsia · Season: 2025
Full Cristata fans and Spicata spikes in one plant — deep jewel-purple fuchsia, both forms at maximum intensity at exactly the same time.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Dusty Pink + Olive · Season: 2025
A bundle holding multiple divergent forms in muted dusty pink, cream, and olive — the mosaic of a single plant’s changing mind over one season.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Lavender + Blush · Season: 2025
Soft lavender-blush Plumosa with curious curling tips on every branch end — a crab-legged beauty doing things entirely her own way.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Pale Ivory + Lemon · Season: 2025
Pale ivory-lemon Plumosa cascading in a glass vase — a Phoenix whose fire burns cool. The color of candlelight seen through September fog.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Pale Ivory + Yellow · Season: 2025
Pale ivory-yellow Spicata in full wheat form, laid flat — the color of dried chamomile and old linen. Quiet and completely itself.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Chartreuse + Blush · Season: 2025
Chartreuse-lime at center shading out to soft blush-pink at the tips — a Plumosa Queen in the most improbable color combination of the whole season.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Chartreuse + Lime · Season: 2025
Lime-green chartreuse Spicata in a drooping fountain arc — a Phoenix whose departure from form looks like pure choreography.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Cream + Blush · Season: 2025
A small-scale Phoenix holding Spicata spikes and Cristata ruffling on the same stem — compact, curious, already well beyond her original form.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Peach + Cream · Season: 2025
Peachy-cream Spicata in the wheat tradition — sun-dried and graceful, the color of a late August afternoon going gold over the field.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Dusty Rose + Mauve · Season: 2025
Dusty rose-mauve Spicata catalogued against Pantone swatches — a color that resists naming, photographed insisting on precision.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Ivory + Cream · Season: 2025
Ivory-cream Spicata hanging in long elegant cascades over grey linen — the feeling of a period film: beautiful, unhurried, impeccably lit.
GP · Cristata · 2025
F: Cristata · CF: Coral + Blush · Season: 2025
Multiple round Cristata crests in coral-pink and blush — clustered and ruffled like sea coral, each head a small world fully formed.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Dusty Mauve + Lavender · Season: 2025
Dusty mauve-lavender Spicata against deep burgundy leaves — a Queen that carries the particular quality of light after midnight in September.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Pale Cream + Blush · Season: 2025
Pale cream-blush Spicata in delicate compact clusters — fine-textured, small, precisely made. The sprite of the seed lot.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Pale Ivory + White · Season: 2025
A single tall ivory-white Spicata photographed in the field against the living garden — translucent and upright, veiled in its own light.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Deep Magenta + Crimson · Season: 2025
A Plumosa-Cristata cross in deep magenta-fuchsia-crimson — both forms present, both at maximum. A specimen that refused to choose one.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Sage + Pink · Season: 2025
Sage-green Spicata with soft pink Cristata ruffling breaking at the base of each spike — the form is migrating, one toe at a time.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Coral + Orange · Season: 2025
Dense, rope-like Plumosa strands in coral-orange-pink, photographed close — each filament visible, the whole thing burning like a supernova caught mid-burst.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Orange + Red · Season: 2025
Widely branching Plumosa with small orange-red heads at the tip of each long arm — the architecture of exuberance, laid flat to be understood.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Peach-Orange + Rose · Season: 2025
Spicata torches that open at their base into wide peach-orange and rose ruffled bells — a transformation so complete it looks like something planned.
GP · Cristata · 2025
F: Cristata · CF: Pale Sage + Blush · Season: 2025
Small compact Cristata clusters in pale sage-green with soft blush fringed edges — young, delicate, and fully formed in miniature.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Pale Pink + Red Stem · Season: 2025
Pale Spicata among vivid red-orange autumn leaves — the specimen barely visible, the garden making the whole picture around her.
GP · Cristata · 2025
F: Cristata · CF: Pale Chartreuse + Cream · Season: 2025
Large, wide Cristata fans in pale chartreuse-cream — bold in form, quiet in color. A warrior dressed entirely in the palest armor available.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Pink + Lavender · Season: 2025
Soft lavender-pink Spicata photographed in the field — a Pantone study in the color that lives exactly between rose and violet.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Deep Crimson + Magenta · Season: 2025
Deep crimson-magenta across multiple divergent forms on one plant — Cristata fans, Plumosa branches, Spicata torches, all present at once.
GP · Cristata · 2025
F: Cristata · CF: Pale Chartreuse + Cream · Season: 2025
A wide spreading mass of pale chartreuse-cream Cristata — regal in breadth, finely ruffled, the color of old English lace held up to the morning.
GP · Cristata · 2025
F: Cristata · CF: Burnt Orange + Vermilion · Season: 2025
Burnt orange-vermilion Cristata in a dense, velvety crest — photographed close enough to see every individual fiber, every wattled fold of the crown.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Dusty Rose · Season: 2025
Compact, perfectly round Plumosa heads in soft dusty rose — a windblown name for a bloom that looks like it was shaped by one.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Salmon + Russet · Season: 2025
Soft salmon-pink Spicata with golden-russet tips on slate — each one shaped like a writing quill from a more deliberate era.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Salmon + Dusty Mauve · Season: 2025
Fat, finger-like Spicata heads in dusty salmon-mauve on white — thick-stemmed and curving, each one shaped like something found underfoot at low tide.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Vivid Salmon + Orange · Season: 2025
Vivid salmon-orange-red Spicata on slate — the color of sockeye flesh caught mid-run. Saturated, electric, exactly right.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Orange + Rust Crimson · Season: 2025
Dense vivid orange-red and rust-crimson Plumosa in a tight dramatic bundle — a sister plume that arrived at her own answer, entirely.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Coral + Rose · Season: 2025
Coral-rose Plumosa in the field with a Cristata crest already forming at the top — a Phoenix mid-emergence, caught on a late summer evening.
GP · Cristata · 2025
F: Cristata · CF: Ivory + Blush · Season: 2025
Multiple branching Cristata crests in cream and ivory-peach with pink fringed edges — a branching Queen that flowered in more than one direction at once.
GP · Cristata · 2025
F: Cristata · CF: Peach + Coral · Season: 2025
Two stems with downward-facing peachy-coral Cristata crests — small, round, slightly skirt-shaped, worn with complete unconcern.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Gold + Russet · Season: 2025
Golden-green at the base, warming through to russet-red at the tips — a Spicata in gradient, the colors of a glass held up to the fading light.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Terracotta + Salmon · Study: Estate Side 2025
A study in terracotta Spicata from the estate side of the garden — multiple specimens early and vivid, each one taking the color somewhere slightly different.
GP · Seed Mix · 2025
Mix · CF: Blush + Terracotta · Season: 2025
The harvest that didn’t fit the main study — blush and soft terracotta Spicata in multiple forms, each one a different take on the same warm range.
GP · Cristata · 2025
F: Cristata · CF: Sage + Copper Rose · Season: 2025
Sage-green Cristata with rose-copper fringed edges — layered, ruffled, and impossibly fine. As if the whole thing were seen from the other side of something.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Vivid Coral + Crimson · Season: 2025
Vivid coral-red and crimson Spicata in a dense bundle — the energy of a stadium performance packed into a single late-season harvest.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Purple + Pink · Season: 2025
Soft purple-pink Plumosa with coiling, serpentine tips — a Phoenix whose departure from form looks like the moment just before petrification.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Crimson + Magenta · Season: 2025
A single Spicata torch opening at its base into a wide velvety Cristata fan — the transformation is so complete it looks like two different plants in one frame.
GP · Cristata · 2025
F: Cristata · CF: Orange + Sage + Coral · Season: 2025
Multiple Cristata in sage, orange-copper, coral, and dusty pink arranged together — the whole color range of an October sunset, assembled in one place.
GP · Cristata · 2025
F: Cristata · CF: Chartreuse + Lime · Season: 2025
Dense chartreuse-lime Cristata heads in rounded compact forms — the most vivid green this garden produced, burning with botanical precision.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Cream + Blush Pink · Season: 2025
Cream Spicata with blush-pink tips on deep wine-red stems — hung and photographed on grey fabric, the contrast quiet and completely exact.
GP · Seed Mix · 2025
Mix · CF: Cream + Blush + Ivory · Season: 2025
A whole harvest in wedding tones — cream, ivory, blush, and soft pink across Cristata crests and Spicata forms. Everything you’d need for an altar.
GP · Cristata · 2025
F: Cristata · CF: Blush + Cream · Season: 9-22-25
Finely ruffled Cristata in the palest blush and cream — a form so delicate it seems to have arrived at itself entirely by accident, and held on anyway.
GP · Plumosa · 2025
F: Plumosa · CF: Vivid Fuchsia-Magenta · Season: 10-7-25
The color of a standing ovation — vivid, unself-conscious, completely committed. Named for someone who understood that full presence is the whole point.
GP · Phoenix Form · 2025
F: Phoenix Form · CF: Berry + Deep Wine · Season: 10-7-25
Berry and dark wine in the same stem — summer’s last warmth bleeding into something deeper. A Phoenix that carries the whole season in its coloring, refusing to let it go.
GP · Spicata · 2025
F: Spicata · CF: Vivid Pink · BP: Battle Spike · Season: 10-27-25
Vivid pink Spicata at full spike expression — upright, armored, completely sure of itself. A mix that came out looking like it had a point to make, and made it.
GP · Phoenix Form · 2025
F: Phoenix Form · CF: Deep Magenta · Surface: Dense-Textured · Season: 10-7-25
Deep magenta Phoenix form with an unusually dense, wool-like surface texture. The color is full-frequency and the structure does something all its own with it.
GP · Seed Mix · 2025
Mix · CF: Crimson + Coral + Magenta · Season: 2025
Multiple Plumosa in mason jars inside the greenhouse — vivid coral, crimson, and deep magenta, the whole range of what the season produced.
GP · Seed Mix · 2025
Mix · CF: Crimson + Orange + Red · Season: 2025
A glass vase full of Plumosa in the full warm spectrum — deep crimson to vivid orange-red, the whole range the field offered in one harvest.