Carlisle Flowers
The Ware Collection of Glass Models of Plants: The “Glass Flowers” at the Harvard Museum of Natural History is always in bloom in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We visited the museum some 15 years ago with our children and delighted in the collection made possible by the generosity of a mother and her daughter, Elizabeth and Mary […]
The Eastern Redbud Tree is indigenous to Maryland, a lovely understory tree to purple your landscape. Here is one, reaching for the sun. In the “Gardener’s Directory, Washington D.C.& Metro Area”, an article, “Why Native” debates the two camps of thought – grow natives which recognizes our botanical heritage versus importing exotic plants. Exotics might […]
We don’t normally bounce our arrangement to and fro but here we have one that reminds us of a blue paper cone full of whitish yellow french fries. “Thrashers, down on the Boardwalk,” we say, “down at the ocean (Ocean City, MD) Hon!” Flip side from my better half, I asked him what the arrangement […]
This Trench Art mortar shell vase has Safari King in green and red standing straight and tall. Around are pink and lavender limonium in a swirl, adding a curve movement.
This arrangement is meant to be seen from all angles. It’s fun to have the sun behind you and try not to take the photograph with yourself casting such a shadow. The cut crystal vase dictated a Victorian, cottage look. The flowers, alstromeria, lisianthus, shrub roses, mums and limonium are small in scale and their […]
One of the vases to have in your arsenal, a vase that makes it easy for you to arrange flowers in quick order to greet your guests at the door. Sunny yellow does it well.
