Gardening, Naturally

LAURIE PERRON worked as a horticulturalist and landscape architect for fifteen years before realizing her dream of opening Jungle Fleur, an online boutique flower shop that sells seasonal blooms that she grows in her mother’s garden.SARAH QUESNEL-LANGLOIS is an artisan and photographer with an enthusiasm for botany. Since 2018, she has collaborated on a variety of projects with Jungle Fleur as a horticulturalist and stylist, thus combining her greatest passions in life.J. C. SUTCLIFFE is a translator, writer, and editor. Her translation of Back Roads by Andrée A. Michaud was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award. Her other translations include Mama’s Boy and Mama’s Boy Behind Bars by David Goudreault, Document 1 by François Blais, and Worst Case, We Get Married by Sophie Bienvenu. She has written for the Globe and Mail, the Times Literary Supplement, and the National Post, among others. She lives in Peterborough, Ontario.