Model turned landscape designer, Lily Kwong, has been busy beautifying spaces all over the country (most recently working with St-Germain turning NYC’s The High Line and LA’s Houdini Estate into a floral wonderland). She has been creating works of art and transforming areas utilizing thousands of blooms and greenery and it’s here she finds her happy place. With such a dramatic transfer of career and finding success in such different worlds of creativity, we were eager to pick this floral architect’s brain to get the low-down on her new career as well as get some tips from the expert on how you can transfer her grand designs for your own at-home soiree’s.

Have you always been intrigued by landscape design" Where did your love for this world stem from" What inspires you" Definitely. Reconnecting with plants and nature has cracked open my life. Getting my hands in the dirt, exploring organic beauty, and designing in harmony with nature has reconnected me with my creativity and my community. Working with plant life has taught me patience, compassion, mindfulness – all those juicy life lessons. It satisfies all the dimensions of my personality: I get to do research, draw, travel, get cerebral, get physical, be outside, be chained to a computer, work with big teams, collaborate with other artists. At the end of the day what I enjoy most about this field is I know I?m working towards a greater mission of creating a more beautif...