Carlisle Flowers
A path of Astilbe on a Saturday morning, too early for the sun to shine on these feathery wands of muted pinks and whites. The mass of softness along the square slate path takes the wanderer meandering along.
We traveled south on the computer this rainy Saturday morning to celebrate Father’s Day weekend in Austin, Texas for the 33rd annual Hyde Park Historic Homes Tour. Six houses on the tour include an 1890s two-story home that was moved to the neighborhood from the west campus area, an historic landmark home that has […]
The first annual Green Roofs for the West Symposium will take place this Thursday, June 18th at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver, Colorado. Co-hosted by the Gardens, U.S. Green Building Council and Colorado State University, the Symposium will spotlight the innovative ways green roofs are leading us to a future of more sustainable cities. […]
You have a budget of under $10 and want to decorate with flowers. Here is a neat crisp pop of color that provoked enough comments two weeks ago (yes, it is that old) to warrant doing it again. A topiary of sorts of black-eyed yellow poms – two bunches which adorned our kitchen […]
Peonies The peony season came and went in Baltimore before we could bat an eye. A picture from the ’08 album shows these beauties in a flower arrangement where several unseen branches hold the peonies’ heads up making them easier to arrange. Here is a great site for planning your peony garden next […]
This wall vase was a find in an antique store in Berkley Springs, West Virginia. Just one of many wall vases. The collectors were collecting them and we enjoyed the collections.
