Garden History
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 […]
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 […]
