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SARAH WAGSTAFF OF SUOT FARM AND FLOWERS wanted to flip the script on who wears flowers and so she recruited her husband Keith Chaplin, their 8-year-old son Huck Chaplin, and Steve Hayes, a willing friend, to model her creations for a American Flowers Week celebration.

Dressing adult men and a younger boy with botanicals reminds Sarah of Peter Pan and Captain Hook. "Remember when Pan comes back to Neverland after he becomes a grownup and has forgotten how to be childlike? That's a story within us all," she says. "I wanted to remember and recognize the child within each of us, especially in men.

Sarah wanted to attach flowers to every part of Steve's body -- his head, shoulders, neck, chest, back, arms, wrists, fingers, and legs. The botanical headpiece, a sunray shape, extends around neck and shoulders, covers his shirt, and fills the chest pocket. She used eyelash adhesive to glue flowers to his skin and wrapped his shoulders and arms with a 20-foot-floral boa fabricated from cedar boughs, tulips, peonies, and other cuts from her farm

For her son Huck, whose interest in the project peaked when photographer Cecily Gubitosi encouraged him to take

DESIGN + CONCEPT: Sarah Wagstaff, SUOT Farm & Flowers, @suotfarm

DESIGN ASSISTANCE: Olivia Yates O'Donnell, FloravoreNW, @floravorenw

PHOTOGRAPHY: Cecily Gubitosi Photography, @cecilygubitosiphotography

FLOWER SOURCES: SUOT Farm & Flowers, Tulips, peonies, frittilaria, ranunculus, poppies, daffodils, ferns, Spanish blue bells, bleeding heart, alliums, lilac, violas, hellebores, forget-me-nots, grasses, ivy, cedar, clematis, bones/shells MODELS: Steve Hayes, Keith Chaplin, Huck Chaplin

VENUE: SUOT Farm & Flowers, Burlington, Washington, @suotfarm