Carlisle
Yesterday was Tulip Dig at Sherwood Gardens. Every Saturday of Memorial Weekend the public can dig tulip bulbs for 30 cents a piece. After consulting the lay-out of the gardens I choose “Texas Gold” to brighten my garden next Spring. Advised to put bone meal in a whole about 6 inches down I […]
Guess what we had for breakfast this morning. The ones you don’t see here!
Alexandre Descubes, born in Mauritia in the 1850s, was first employed by his country as a cartographer. Later he worked for India when he painted watercolor botanical drawings of the native habitats of India, Pakistan, Sikkim, Bhutan, Nepal, the Himalayans and the Malayan Peninsula. Extensive botanical info on each painting includes the family, genus, species […]
The primer, “Japanese Flower Arrangement in a Nutshell” written by Ellen Gordon Allen, is a “go to” book. Mrs. Allen was the daughter of Major General Walter Gordon, U.S. Army and the wife of Major General Frank A. Allen, Jr. stationed in Japan in 1955. Her interest in flower arranging grew as “an antidote […]
The Moribana Form “C” arrangement calls for the subject flower (to the far right) to be leaning dramatically to the right over the container. Ours is not so dramatic because we need a low rectangular container to pull it off properly – not in a round bowl. This conjugation of flowers has a subject, […]
