Original pressed astilbe by Sandy Whitaker, framed on a pale ground

Astilbe Pressed Botanical

Name: Astilbe Pressed Botanical
Brand: Botanicals by Sandy
SKU: 03-PBBS-006
Price: 595.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Botanicals by Sandy

$595.00

All plume, no weight

Astilbe chinensis is all plume and no weight — a shade-garden flower that presses into something closer to smoke. Sandy arranged this one by hand and lettered it in the corner. One pressing, one plant.

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Astilbe Pressed Botanical

$595.00

Why buy an original pressing?

Sandy Whitaker holding an armload of fresh blue hydrangeas cut for pressing

Gathered from her garden

Most of what Sandy presses comes out of her own backyard in Cartersville — hydrangea, fern, dogwood — cut when it is right and pressed the same day. The rest she gathers from roadsides and woods.

Sandy Whitaker arranging pressed hydrangea blossoms and leaves by hand on backing boards in her Cartersville, Georgia studio

Arranged by eye, one stem at a time

Nothing is laid out to a template. Sandy works each piece by hand, then letters the botanical name into the corner when it is finished. “I try to picture them as they are in nature,” she says, “and let the flowers speak for themselves.”

Framed pressed botanicals by Sandy Whitaker hung above a console table in a Southern dining room

They gather well

One is enough to settle a wall. Several, hung close, become something else — a grid above a console, or a run up a staircase, which is what James Farmer did with her pressings in Home Again. These frames are 19½ × 12.

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Botanicals by Sandy

Sandy Whitaker has pressed flowers and ferns in Cartersville, Georgia for more than twenty years, and made it her full-time work in 2011. Most of what she presses comes out of her own backyard; the rest she gathers from roadsides and woods. She arranges each piece by eye and letters the botanical name in the corner by hand.

Flower put her in a 2025 feature on herbaria — the tradition that runs back through Linnaeus and Darwin. James Farmer has used her pressings in two of his books, and a pair of her hydrangeas hung in a kitchen Erin Napier designed on Home Town in 2017.

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Astilbe Pressed Botanical

All plume, no weight

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