Carlisle Flowers
Green cabbage soup with purple stock. A nice little statement for the foyer or four seater table. Watch for more ornamental cabbage soup recipes.
I was lit up, so to speak, by this beaded flower lamp made in Czechoslovakia during the early 1900s. There are no markings on it to tell who or which company/person designed and crafted it but because it it low you can really see the full effect. The beads were made by molds and […]
Italian sardine crocks and Provencal mixing bowls drew me and a small crowd to the booth of The Elephant’s Ear at the Baltimore Antique Show this weekend. John Grafe, the dealer from Jackson, MS imports these wonderful crockery that makes you think doubly of cooking and gardening.
Sorry, species not known but just wanted to show how the color red can be introduced in an arrangement through leaves as well as berries and flowers. I’ll be back in Baltimore tomorrow, looking for that next vase. Actually I found a little one that you’ll see this weekend. I’m excited about some of the […]
Medicinals are not the only tropicals that David McLean grows in his mile long rain forest like nursery in Davie, Florida. It’s just that the plants he wanted to show me first were all medicinals. Like African tropical oregano, beautiful variegated leaves. The Australian tea tree, its oil used as an antibiotic during World War […]
After dinner last night we strolled along Las Olas, the walk of walks in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. There I discovered Ann’s Florist. This morning I was there by 10:30 am to take an inside view of the windows I saw last night. She has the best silk flowers I’ve seen. Maybe because there were a […]
