Carlisle Flowers
We went to England and France for our 25th. My husband wanted to go to London before we journeyed to Bordeaux, France. I googled Chelsea Flower Show and found that we would be three weeks too early to see “The Flower Show” of flower shows. So I crafted an itinerary that was full of flowers, both […]
Polo the sign read. Horse country ahead. And there was Ladew Topiary Gardens with the topiary hounds on the front lawn waiting for the chase. Much the same on this Ladew vase. The huntsman sounding the horn. He’s sighted the fox. My prey were the pink roses – just at their height of fullness. Climbing […]
Happy 4th. We went to Annapolis on Wednesday to see the William Paca House and Gardens. Paca was one of the Maryland signers of the Declaration of Independence. How fitting. Behind the house is a treasure. A restored garden in geometric design with low patterned hedges. You can see the Summer House over the bridge and beyond the […]
My friend’s mother thinks about Ocean City a lot. All the summers she spent with her good friends on the beach watching her children and the tide go in and out. She is a lady who loves life and Ocean City ranks right up there. One day I took a small basket of flowers to her in […]
There probably isn’t anything called a crocosima vase, I just made it up. But it serves my purpose – to show you the most gorgeous flower and to show you a vase that lets you show off this specimen, is pretty and can be used for umpteen purposes. The crocosima leaves look like a bearded iris’s. […]
Green/gray. How was I going to green the Homewood vase when I couldn’t figure out the color to use. It came to me when reading one of Paula Pryke books (will talk about her in book reviews) that the salal leaf is not bright green and even turns a little grey when it dries. I […]
