Carlisle Flowers
Little daffodils (also called trumpet narcissus) with petals or perianth as long as the trumpets. For flower arranging use perhaps curly willow sticks in the pot to hold them up for a rustic look. Save bulbs in cool place to plant in fall or just try to plant bulbs after greens have died down. Certainly […]
When picking out the flowers for the week first order of business, the stargazer lilies. We wanted to see how easily or not they would integrate with carns and poms, their being so big and the others so small, their being celestial versus terrestrial. Stacking the flowers and surveying the color palette, tones of pinks […]
Is that what they were trying to say with this name Gee I Me? Don’t know. But here’s a trivial fact. For every President’s wife a rose is named. Michelle Obama’s color, which designer will it be? And the muscle tones, will they be featured?
This early 17th century Delft pottery pyramid vase is from the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The one metre (40 inches) high tulipiere was inspired by Chinese exported pottery and can hold 36 flowers. Clay differed from each country so the colors differed as well, the Delft faience (porcelain) not as translucent as […]
Formal gardens with a “plant palette of Mediterranian and indigenous plants to Zone 7 “including boxwoods, cherry laurels, spirea and annuals were used to create the four primary axises,” said Joe Cugliotta of J. Cugliotta Landscape/Nursery Inc., the designer of this exhibit at the Philadelphia Flower Show sponsored by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society this past […]
