Living Wild: How to Plant Style Your Home and Cultivate Happiness - Hardcover

by Hilton Carter (Author)

In Living Wild, bestselling plant stylist, author, designer and family man Hilton Carter explores multiple ways to style your home with plants--and cultivate happiness along the way.

The therapeutic benefits of living with and tending plants are well known--they offer a connection to the natural world that nurtures our mental and physical health. In Living Wild, Hilton Carter shows how to create a lush, stylish space with flourishing plants that bring life to your home and happiness to your life. He discusses interior design choices--choosing the right color scheme, textures, and materials to showcase gorgeous greenery--then takes a deep dive into styling. From picking the perfect planter to statement plants and taking in centerpieces, living art and hanging planters plus outdoors spaces and plants for kids along the way, Living Wild is packed with interior design and styling ideas that blur the boundary beside inside and out. Finally, we visit 8 unique homes that have been plant styled by Hilton and take a detailed look at his top ten designer plants, along with care and info tips.

Author Biography

Hilton Carter is a director, editor and fine artist who is passionate about plants--his home is filled with 250 of them. He has a huge and loyal following on Instagram (@hiltoncarter), where he shares his encyclopedic knowledge of plant care and styling. He recently had a collaboration with Target, co-founded Green Neighbor plant shop, and is one of the experts selected by Chip and Joanna Gaines for their Workshops digital series and Magnolia Network TV show. Hilton lives with his wife and daughter in Baltimore.