Carlisle Flowers
It’s fun to go back to the fundamentals sometimes to see if you can actually pull it off. This is called an “L-shaped” arrangement, usually opening to the right. I used the Bells of Ireland to make the strong “L” then filled the inside with purple asters. The irises and the carns on the bottom […]
What a neat vase to put some glads in. Tall, can hold at least three stems and its clear, bubbled surface lends itself to a casual look. A set of three would make a striking design. The glads are at their finest, a genus of South Africa. The last funnel bloom occurs about 10 days […]
Portland, Oregon is lovely. We had a short stay there this week and loved every minute of it. My friends’ house is built into a hill at about a 80 degree angle. The garden seems to fall right into their familyroom. Their terraced beds had roses, hydrangeas matched with Acanthus and moss everywhere. I remarked […]
How excited I was to find this vase at Anthropologie. It was in the front of the store, displayed for the eye to see immediately. Yes, the price is great but even more than that young girls and guys are being told perhaps sublimely that flowers are good, flowers are necessary. I made this arrangement […]
Remember how I was attempting to do a Hogarth Curve with the urn from the Talbot County Historical Society. Well the more I looked at the arrangement the more I saw the need to put the Latin Lady roses above the Stargazer lilies as well as below them, in essence making a diagonal line. You can see […]
When was the last time I walked in the woods? By myself? Last week in the Adkins Arboretum forest. Fortunately two women nearby were walking the trails so I could hear their voices in the distance. I felt vunerable and turned to the recorder punching random numbers to hear about the three stories of the forest, […]
