About Alex
Alex Abuza is an avid plantswoman and outdoorswoman whose love of nature has led her to build a woman-owned and operated design business centered around this passion. Alex divides her time between her burgeoning Finger Lakes Flower and Perennial Farm and New York City. She operates as a floral and garden designer in the five boroughs, Westchester County, Upstate New York, and beyond.
Her residential garden design employs best practices for the environment, and she incorporates as many native plants as possible into her designs, with a vision of creating beautiful and sustainable gardens and landscapes.
Her floral work consists of floral styling for showrooms and shoots, floral décor for weddings, non-profit, and corporate events, weekly floral and gift deliveries, while prioritizing sustainability, using as many locally sourced field-grown and responsibly foraged flowers as possible, and composting following events.
When not at her desk, in her studio, at an event venue, or in her own fields of forage and cultivated flowers, Alex can most often (not) be found rambling through the woods or up creeks of Upstate New York, seeking inspiration for design work, often with her little boy and husband alongside her.
about Her work
Wilder Gardens and Flowers provides beautifully wild floral and garden designs that blend Alex’s unique vision with her commitment to quality, client communication, and sustainability.
Whether designing a rooftop garden, a Brownstone garden, an upstate meadow or creating centerpieces and table-scapes for your wedding or event, Alex’s goal is to create something beautiful and experiential. Using texture, movement, mood and color, she references the natural landscape and engages all the senses so that her design and installation transport you.
While Alex’s work has an organic quality, her aesthetic is always filtered through her clients’ visions. She listens as much as she creates. The first part of her process is to hear and translate her clients’ wishes – for their weddings, their brands, their rooftops – into the language of plants and flowers. The second part of Alex’s process is to take their visions and bring them to life using her expertise to choose the best seasonal flowers for your event, or when designing gardens, choosing the “right plant for the right site,” all while keeping sustainability in mind.