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One must see “The” iris because it’s the only one in the garden, the eve of October 14th. Tomorrow with the sun behind perhaps the flower will speak differently but this evening it paints the dusk white.
No doubt about it, flowers don’t last forever but the selection is getting better as more people are becoming familiar with flowers. Yea! The fact that the flowers don’t last forever makes you want to capture them with the light behind. Nothing needs to be done here but admire their beauty. This was certainly not […]
What to look at first, and second, no not third. The softness of the roses, the budding of the spider mum, the fuzziness of the celosia draw you in, want you to feel and then wonder at the brilliance and subtleness of color.
Flowers from the wholesalers are two steps ahead of the weeks to come. Photinia leaves from the wonderful red tipped autumn bush were there at the wholesalers just begging to be bought. That was the starting point yesterday but the warm salmon of the stock turned things around. Stock is a standard, feminine, long-lasting with […]
Where is local, because that is where we want to be. Picking these wonderful green tinged with pink hydrangeas just when you think summer has passed. Here they are a globe of blooms with pink lilies popping to and fro.
My friend needed a centerpiece for her kitchen table. Yellow and purple were the colors of the day. One balances the other. Soldago (yellow feathery flower) with yellow mums counters the ornamental cabbage, purple mums and limonium (feathery purple flower). Proteus mounts the top predominantly red but picking up the purple in the mums. The […]
Once you’ve prepared your bed of holiday greens for your basket (which you can do a week in advance and keep it in a cool place), the fun part begins. Picking out your colors. In a previous post we chose all red/rust color roses – so it was a bed of a dozen roses – […]
For a moment we put our botanist hat on while filming a podcast for YouTube and explained the different plant matter that can be used to decorate/greening a basket. Starting with wet oasis, we build up with branches of leyland cypress, pulling them apart and putting the longest at both bottom ends of the […]
How intriguing to encounter this bowl having all the attributes to stand on its own, silver overlay, etched flowers and leaves, transparent, such an easy green to work with and the triangular set up of the raised feet. Dare we put flowers in it? We did, thanks to Home Again. This arrangement is a throw […]
Blue, blue, were do you get blue. From delephiniums. larkspur, hydrangea and iris. These irises were just opening and played counterpoint to the pink lilies. The tones were close but we needed a base. Something that brought the blue and pink together – the red orchid with a hint of pink to wander from the […]
The first day of October and Towson Univeristy plant keepers were pulling up these petunias to plant pansies. “You’re not going to throw them away are you?” I had recently found a lovely green planter 20″ long- and here was the perfect match – a mass of pink petunias. The light of day captured the […]
At the top of the main page go to “Vases” and you will find the “nature” things used in the Holiday Basket. They are great for adding texture and contrast with the flowers and “authenticating” that this basket is for real! The pods and nuts can be used over and over again – they […]
