Carlisle Flowers
What a find – a 10″ cast iron urn at the Talbot County Historical Society store. I needed an urn at a good price and there I got one. I feel it my duty to show some of the styles of arrangements that are judged by the various garden clubs. This one is the Hogarth […]
We drove to Tilghman Island tonight with a friend for dinner. Along the way we passed The Maritime Museum in St. Michaels with its octagonal lighthouse, then up the drive to the Inn at Perry Cabin then down the neck of the road where at one point you can see the Eastern Chesapeake Bay on […]
The approach to the Inn at Perry Cabin is stately, a brick drive, two cars wide with an allee of linden trees. Joanne Effinger, who mastered the landscape, came to the Inn around the time that it was owned by Laura Ashley. Thirty-five geraniums wilted and thirty-five more were planted. What you see today are […]
Today I bought my Apple (computer). Now you might say what does this have to do with flowers. Everything. I can enlarge my pictures so you can see more. It just so happens that in the Christiana Mall in Delaware there is a Pottery Barn and this dear little glass vase is a new addition […]
Look at this vase. Doesn’t it remind you of your grandmother. I deign to say their generation was wise. If you have a vase like this you can be an arranger par excellence. Take a piece of oasis (the green stuff for live flowers versus dried) and soak it in water. Put some floral life […]
When I saw this one of a kind vase made by a Canadian artist I was thrilled to put orange and purple together. For purple we used stock to accentuate the swirl of the purple on the vase. Then for the golden swath the eremuris just lept out of the wholesaler’s fridge into my hands tailed by […]
