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Dozens of couples visit the Cloisters each week to envision their wedding through the leaded glass windows in the woods and up the crest of a fairy tale hill on Falls Road. Pale pink roses against the backdrop of wood and stone let the autumn leaves show their beauty.
There’s an accent aigue somewhere hidden, on top of this beautiful masterpiece of silver that is every floral designer’s dream. Cabbage underneath, miniature burnt brown bananas, grapes, roses, mums, stock, the list goes on. Enjoy!
Here’s a take on a snow globe with beauty berries and some alstromeria, mini and medium size mums. There’s a little strawflower if you look closely.
But of course, Sunflowers would be the finest flowers fresh from the fields in October. They will continue until the frost and then they will be a lighter color when they come from South America. Price $40 with raffia vase, $35 without. Watch for November specials.
It is unbelievable that one could forget such a lovely thing as a beauty berry bush that was in our old garden but has not yet been planted in our new garden. Their luster can not be matched. They are like amethyst in the round. A string of them would look dynamite.
Pink lilies by the door. What enchanting guests without all the folderal of being arranged. I
Last night mechanics were spotlighted. How to keep these gladiolas upright in a lovely vase that clearly would not support them. If you look closely you will see at the bottom of the vase, a pin holder or metal frog. I attached some floral sticky tape to its underside to keep it in place. […]
The other day I was lucky to get a mixed pack of gladiolas to play with. As I was carrying them to the car a woman stopped me and said how pretty they were but she normally didn’t like them. “Let me guess why?” I asked her. “Do they remind you of […]
Today in Baltimore the weather is crisp, a fall walking day. On your door could reflect what is happening beyond, evergreens, pods, russet sedum and the tails of ornamental grasses. Here is a grapevine wreath with yes, some artificial leaves for color but you could scavenge the yard for some reddened dogwood leaves and replace […]
In a protective place and for us Zone 7, this evergreen camellia blooms in autumn profusely. Ours are espaliered against the house. The branches of shiny leaves are a tremendous green for arrangements. The flower stays a wall flower or is it wallpaper – an in thing to be.
Why not say the day is purple before the rain comes, a color viewpoint. Then we have the red carns to help define the purple spider mums. The spider mums are seven in number making the eye climb up. If you remember this vase it came from Ladew Topiary Gardens and its tone of […]
