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‘Tis Divine Providence that today my husband and I met for lunch in Baltimore, picked up a sandwich at Trinacria’s Deli – a great muffaletta for $5.99 to more than satisfy two. Where should we eat, a park when there’s no place to go. We were on a date and he thought of the prayer […]
We are not seeing the whole metamorphosis of this moth. We did not see the egg stage or the larvae stage, the five fivestar stages, but let’s pretend by saying that this lovely butterfly has finally molted, cocooned and spread her wings. We don’t know about the chrysalis because these are flowers silly and we […]
Today, today they may be in full glory or tomorrow, by Friday Winterthur’s ‘”blue phase’ of the March Bank … squill and glory of the snow are the two most prominent blue flowers blooming during this time … the view extends up and down across the hillsides of the March Bank and is a fleeting, […]
In 1926 Japan gave Philadelphia 1,600 cherry blossom trees. Each spring the warm skies usher in the Sakura Matsuri, the Japanese name for Cherry Blossom Festival, to Philadlephia sponsored in part by Subaru. The akebono cherry blossoms started to bloom the weekend of March 21st around the corner from the University of Pennsylvania. The big […]
Flower globes seem easy enough to make but actually take longer to create the correct balance. Twirling the container around while placing the flowers from side to side helps immensely. Start from the top and think about whether you want the globe to touch the container to create a ball effect (that is if the […]
Emily Dickinson wrote this poem about the lily’s development – “forgets its humble earlier state when it was a bulb covered with mold,” writes Judith Farr in her book, “The Gardens of Emily Dickinson”. “Then with its bell, it ‘swings’ like bell in the meadow, ectastic as a mystic who has been formed by the […]
Last weekend’s “Imitating Art” http://carlisleflowers.net/?p=2512 we used this beautiful vase with daffodils, hardly coming close to a balance between the flowers and the beautiful vase. Last night after looking at the vase over the course of the week (watching the flowers become skeletons rendering them more angular than they already were ) we needed something […]
“Reflection” Copright Joe Bruner Cherry Blossom Festival Time. From March 28th through April 12th a tradition that began with a gift from Japan in 1912, Washington, D.C. will celebrate The National Cherry Blossom Festival ( Prunus x yedoensis). Their website gives the timing of the bud stages of the trees since the 1990s. Weatherwise […]
North Hill Garden, considered one of the best private gardens in the U.S. is the creation of Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd. They will speak at Ladew Topiary Gardens in Monkton, Maryland on May2nd about their newly published book, “Our Life in Gardens.” Dominique Browning in her review of the book in the New York […]
As I (yes I’ll write I from time to time) was riding home on a crisp but sunny third day of spring, I thought what will our children think of us when we are gone. Which flower or bush will they associate us with when thinking fondly of our behind. When thinking of my aunt […]
This exquisite pot was more than a challenge. Making daffodils (undersized to boot) look natural with the wind (blow dryer) showing movement and leaves that stand upright was impossible. Hours were spent all for naught. Never again shall we try to recreate what the artist/potter achieved in his/her depicting the beauty of spring against a […]
Little daffodils (also called trumpet narcissus) with petals or perianth as long as the trumpets. For flower arranging use perhaps curly willow sticks in the pot to hold them up for a rustic look. Save bulbs in cool place to plant in fall or just try to plant bulbs after greens have died down. Certainly […]
