Garden History

You are on CarlisleFlowers.net. To your right, scroll down, see Categories, hit Vases, scroll down twice by hitting previous vases and you will find blog post, World War I Mortar Shell and Lily. Another way to do it is go to the search box and put in mortar. It will also take you to our […]

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A slope of windy spring with daffodils, Lenten Rose, leafing tree peonies, sprouting perennial peonies with hosta await.

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Thursday, we stumbled upon this gem of a book, “Berg Blumen Der Heimat” at The Kelmscott Bookshop in Baltimore, MD.  “The Mountain Flowers Home” translated for us by Google has incredible colored illustrations and the fact that this garden book was published the year after the Second World War gives pause.  When was the book […]

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‘Tis Divine Providence that today my husband and I met for lunch in Baltimore, picked up a sandwich at Trinacria’s Deli – a great muffaletta for $5.99 to more than satisfy two.  Where should we eat, a park when there’s no place to go.  We were on a date and he thought of the prayer […]

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We are not seeing the whole metamorphosis of this moth.  We did not see the egg stage or the larvae stage, the five fivestar stages, but let’s pretend by saying that this lovely butterfly has finally molted, cocooned and spread her wings.  We don’t know about the chrysalis because these are flowers silly and we […]

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Today, today they may be in full glory or tomorrow, by Friday Winterthur’s ‘”blue phase’ of the March Bank … squill and glory of the snow are the two most prominent blue flowers blooming during this time … the view extends up and down across the hillsides of the March Bank and is a fleeting, […]

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