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We’ve seen pictures of parallel style and thought, “Yes, we need to try that so we could say we had,” but really didn’t understand the why or wherefore until we did. Precision in place, material and size are all so important when you are given restraints with your design: few but grouped material, little radiation, […]
This is my market around my kitchen sink. Flowers in their different pails for me to drink.
You are having people over and in short order the flowers are telling you, “Put us some place. We don’t mind if you arrange us with our friends.” So that’s what a good hostess does, she listens to her guests.
Triangles, triangles of white pulling each way, triangles of burgundy mums, triangles of roses arched by red eucalyptus, liatrus and quince branches. Leather ferns dissecting them all.
Look at this arrangement. Some might say, “Wow.” Others might say, “It doesn’t have enough matter to the left.” The latter is true. The arrow which begins in the top right corner of the piece should be equally balanced by the matter at the bottom left quadrant. Frankly I only had liatris to counter the […]
Made exclusively in Jingdezhen, China, this Middle Kingdom lavender and soft yellow vase was purchased Saturday. The store owner asked, “You are not going to use that are you?” Implying, how could I possibly fill it with water and a flower or flowers. Reason so. The use of the soft yellow belly with its beautiful […]
Last Monday was the Celtic celebration of the middle of winter when the energy changes and the sap begins to move upward. Here’s a quince bud in a beautiful porcelain vase made by Middle Kingdom from their kilns in Jingdezhen, China.
Video of Orchid Mobile This Phalaenopsis Mobile is the work of West Chester University Professor and kinetic artist Henry Philippe Loustau. The revolving stainless steel mobile hangs in the Conservatory of Longwood Gardens. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Orchid Society will hold an Orchid Show and Sale in collaboration with Longwood the weekend of March 27-29. http://www.sepos.org […]
The Orangery with Miltonia and Phalaenopsis Topiaries Pierre S. dePont (1870-1954) began building Longwood Gardens in the early 1900s. The Conservatory opened in 1921 and houses approximately 9,000 orchids which are rotated on a daily basis to display their utmost beauty. Mr. duPont was influenced by England/ Sydenham Crystal Palace, flora from the Caribbean and […]
A. Aubrey Bodine created this black and white photograph on Backbone Mountain in Garrett County, Maryland in 1960. It won both national and international awards. “Quiet in mood partly because of the subdued tones and partly because of low tension design made of open curves and natural perspective,” his work and biography can be further […]
