Carlisle
Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, MD is just outside the Washington, D.C. beltway near Silver Spring. In our younger years we would take road trips there for the mammouth jungle gym and for me, the gardens. They have beds of perrenials, annuals, a green house and a gorgeous pond in their Japanese Garden. This planter would […]
What a vase – doesn’t it speak to you of summer? No need to add any other color but white to this Fern Hill vase. The blooms are peegee hydrangeas cut from the morning light before the afternoon sunshine. Crocodile ferns with their spiny underside adds a neat texture. You can see where we cut the flowers […]
It’s fun to go back to the fundamentals sometimes to see if you can actually pull it off. This is called an “L-shaped” arrangement, usually opening to the right. I used the Bells of Ireland to make the strong “L” then filled the inside with purple asters. The irises and the carns on the bottom […]
What a neat vase to put some glads in. Tall, can hold at least three stems and its clear, bubbled surface lends itself to a casual look. A set of three would make a striking design. The glads are at their finest, a genus of South Africa. The last funnel bloom occurs about 10 days […]
Portland, Oregon is lovely. We had a short stay there this week and loved every minute of it. My friends’ house is built into a hill at about a 80 degree angle. The garden seems to fall right into their familyroom. Their terraced beds had roses, hydrangeas matched with Acanthus and moss everywhere. I remarked […]
