Carlisle
My friend needed a centerpiece for her kitchen table. Yellow and purple were the colors of the day. One balances the other. Soldago (yellow feathery flower) with yellow mums counters the ornamental cabbage, purple mums and limonium (feathery purple flower). Proteus mounts the top predominantly red but picking up the purple in the mums. The […]
Once you’ve prepared your bed of holiday greens for your basket (which you can do a week in advance and keep it in a cool place), the fun part begins. Picking out your colors. In a previous post we chose all red/rust color roses – so it was a bed of a dozen roses – […]
For a moment we put our botanist hat on while filming a podcast for YouTube and explained the different plant matter that can be used to decorate/greening a basket. Starting with wet oasis, we build up with branches of leyland cypress, pulling them apart and putting the longest at both bottom ends of the […]
How intriguing to encounter this bowl having all the attributes to stand on its own, silver overlay, etched flowers and leaves, transparent, such an easy green to work with and the triangular set up of the raised feet. Dare we put flowers in it? We did, thanks to Home Again. This arrangement is a throw […]
Blue, blue, were do you get blue. From delephiniums. larkspur, hydrangea and iris. These irises were just opening and played counterpoint to the pink lilies. The tones were close but we needed a base. Something that brought the blue and pink together – the red orchid with a hint of pink to wander from the […]
