Diorio Tag

Marianne Diorio’s favorite flowers are peonies.  She also likes celosias (the feathery kind, to be clear) and snapdragons, as do her neighbors, whom she's going to often message when she re-ups on the latter at her roadside flower stand, called Superflowers, on Shelter Island, N.Y. Formerly the senior vp of worldwide communications on the Estée Lauder Cos. for 30 years, Diorio is now an independent beauty industry consultant and entrepreneur (or as she calls it, “fleurtrepreneur”). “Being in nature is a really humbling and provoking experience,” said Diorio, who first became fascinated about gardening during her 30s. It was around that very same time that her husband, photographer James Wojcik, bought a house on Shelter Island, where the pair now spend the higher...