Carlisle
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 […]
