Yearly Archives: 2009
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 […]
