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Monkey Flower Press

• Matches (2023) - Isabela spearheaded this incendiary postcard project, inspired by Diamond Strike-on-Box matches, and perfect for bringing in the new year with mixed emotions. There are four flames to love: sleepy, smokin’, dyno and glad.
• Plants and Pollinators Garden Map (2023) - Karen held a garden party and Isabela suggested and created an illustrated map and key for guests to enjoy. There is also a flip side with an imagined conversation.
• Monkey Flower Poem (2021-2022) - Our founding collaboration took a variety of forms, including a bookmark, zine and full page art submission for the Theodore Payne Native Plant Garden Tour Guide. You may happen upon a forgotten bookmark inside select titles at the San Luis Obispo Public Library.

The Slow Pressers

Karen enjoys her habitat garden. She also reads, writes, dances and travels.

Isabela is—among other things—a writer of lists, adorer of stories, gatherer of her cat’s whiskers, and questioner of where all the dust bunnies in her room keep coming from.

Cate steps into situations with a curious attitude and generous heart.

You can reach us at monkeyflowerpress@gmail.com. We may be slow to reply…

Diplacus aurantiacus is commonly known as monkey flower or sticky monkey-flower. It’s a flowering perennial plant that grows in a subshrub form, native to southwestern North America from southwestern Oregon south through most of California and into Baja, Mexico. This genus has been subject to taxonomic debate. - Calscape