Carlisle Flowers
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
My friend needed a centerpiece for her kitchen table. Yellow and purple were the colors of the day. One balances the other. Soldago (yellow feathery flower) with yellow mums counters the ornamental cabbage, purple mums and limonium (feathery purple flower). Proteus mounts the top predominantly red but picking up the purple in the mums. The […]
Once you’ve prepared your bed of holiday greens for your basket (which you can do a week in advance and keep it in a cool place), the fun part begins. Picking out your colors. In a previous post we chose all red/rust color roses – so it was a bed of a dozen roses – […]
