Carlisle

One must see “The” iris because it’s the only one in the garden, the eve of October 14th.  Tomorrow with the sun behind perhaps the flower will speak differently but this evening it paints the dusk white.

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No doubt about it, flowers don’t last forever but the selection is getting better as more people are becoming familiar with flowers.  Yea!  The fact that the flowers don’t last forever makes you want to capture them with the light behind.  Nothing needs to be done here but admire their beauty.  This was certainly not […]

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What to look at first, and second, no not third.  The softness of the roses, the budding of the spider mum, the fuzziness of the celosia draw you in, want you to feel and then wonder at the brilliance and subtleness of color.  

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Flowers from the wholesalers are two steps ahead of the weeks to come.  Photinia leaves from the wonderful red tipped autumn bush were there at the wholesalers just begging to be bought.  That was the starting point yesterday but the warm salmon of the stock turned things around.  Stock is a standard, feminine, long-lasting with […]

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  Where is local, because that is where we want to be.  Picking these wonderful green tinged with pink hydrangeas just when you think summer has passed.  Here they are a globe of blooms with pink lilies popping to and fro.

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