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A native tree, Cornus Florida will grow to 20′ to 30′. Baltimore City, County and Harford County are mounting a campaign, “The Growing Home Campaign.” Purchase a tree and receive $10 off the price if the tree retails for over $25. Trees help save on energy costs: 15% to 30% in the shade for summer […]
‘Creating Landscapes with Roses’ will be the next topic in the Horticultural Society of Maryland (MHS) Spring Lecture Series to be held on Tuesday, May 12 at 7:30 pm. Stephen Scanniello, author of “A Rose By Any Name” will show how to change our ideas about using roses in the landscape with new types of […]
While in Fells Point, a colorful stop to make when visiting Baltimore, MD, I found three heads, fine pretty heads which were begging for flowers. Collectibles, the 17th Head Vase Gathering was held in Kissimmee, FL this past winter and at next year’s convention you can dress up as your favorite head vase. How many […]
“Powerscourt is an aristocratic garden laid out with taste, knowledge and imagination. It is the last garden of its size and quality to ever have been created,” writes Peter Coats, author of “Great Gardens of the World.” “Garden design was soon to pass from the hands of the architect and artist into the hands of […]
Powerscourt, Ireland is one of the 36 “Great Gardens of the Western World”, writes Peter Coats, in his book of the same title originally published in 1963 by George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. and later published in 1968 by The Hamlin Publishing Group, Ltd., London. “Some miles south of Dublin on the lower slopes of […]
The Ware Collection of Glass Models of Plants: The “Glass Flowers” at the Harvard Museum of Natural History is always in bloom in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We visited the museum some 15 years ago with our children and delighted in the collection made possible by the generosity of a mother and her daughter, Elizabeth and Mary […]
The Eastern Redbud Tree is indigenous to Maryland, a lovely understory tree to purple your landscape. Here is one, reaching for the sun. In the “Gardener’s Directory, Washington D.C.& Metro Area”, an article, “Why Native” debates the two camps of thought – grow natives which recognizes our botanical heritage versus importing exotic plants. Exotics might […]
We don’t normally bounce our arrangement to and fro but here we have one that reminds us of a blue paper cone full of whitish yellow french fries. “Thrashers, down on the Boardwalk,” we say, “down at the ocean (Ocean City, MD) Hon!” Flip side from my better half, I asked him what the arrangement […]
This Trench Art mortar shell vase has Safari King in green and red standing straight and tall. Around are pink and lavender limonium in a swirl, adding a curve movement.
This arrangement is meant to be seen from all angles. It’s fun to have the sun behind you and try not to take the photograph with yourself casting such a shadow. The cut crystal vase dictated a Victorian, cottage look. The flowers, alstromeria, lisianthus, shrub roses, mums and limonium are small in scale and their […]
One of the vases to have in your arsenal, a vase that makes it easy for you to arrange flowers in quick order to greet your guests at the door. Sunny yellow does it well.
Look at that Safari King. The light shining through to show the yellow tinge inside. It is surrounded by pink lisianthus, pink and white larkspur, white and pink alstromeria, pink limonium and burgundy with gold centered mums. Originally from the southern hemisphere, Safari King, also known as Protea, is now grown in the great flower […]
