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These lovely Asiatic lilies matched with the Monte Casino asters and eucalyptus is an arrangement that softly wants to explode from its circular small vase. The asters come from a long stalk and have individual branches with flowers at the end which can be broken off and used as filler. Here they come in […]
Over the next few weeks, we’ll show the makings of a holiday hearth basket. Greening the basket, step one. Topping it off with complementary flowers, step two. Included are the dried pods and nuts that make your basket have a more natural touch (for sale under “Buy Products.”‘. Part one of the presentation is on […]
With umbrella balancing purse and camera I was lucky to capture this wonderful fountain in the Antrim Inn gardens. At 10:00 the sun was shining here in Taneytown while in Baltimore all of our basements were flooding. Plans were to have a garden wedding for my friend and you can see why. We arrived just before the […]
Time to think about changing your door wreath. This 12″ grapevine wreath ushers in the fall leaves, pods, and seeds wrapped in that wonderful mesh material of green and gold. We’ll do more variations for your holiday trimmings coming up. If you want to purchase the pods, seeds or material go to Vases at the […]
Does this combination say fall to you? A woman who works at the wholesalers say it did. You don’t think of white as a fall color but the subtlety, so different from the yellow sunflowers or the turning leaves, was too alluring to pass up.
The first class of 8th graders from Sisters Academy walked up the aisle of the College of Notre Dame’s Chapel this past June for their commencement. A mache (cardboard) vase held red roses, their favorite flower. Just for fun and the joy of being young we added sunflowers to the arrangement. You might say it’s […]
Everyone loves gerber daisies, especially my Mom. You can wire them or use a plastic sleeve to stop their necks from shriveling and their heads toppling over. This arrangement reminds me of The Wizard of OZ. “You’re out of the woods …” with their heads popping up. Just fun with wired heads.
Take a long tapa “vase” and fill it with seeds from a dogwood tree, calla lilies to mimic the shape of the vessel, lime green poms, real skewered olives and glorious dahlias for an evening of wine and cheese at the First Friday September evening at Red Tree on The Avenue – mucho gusto! Take […]
A friend told me that I needed to go to Talmar off of Cromwell Bridge Road in Baltimore County. Indeed I did. Then I met Catherine Murphy, their Executive Director, and Brian, a staff member, at the Farmer’s Market on Tuesdays at Kenilworth Bazaar. Of course I left there with their fresh cut flowers in […]
What kind of scientist was making his/her potion in this beaker. How little did they know that one deep red head of celosia would make such a combustion. I have been waiting for months to put something in this vessel and it came to me yesterday at Talmar Gardens. Tune in tomorrow about […]
Celebrating an anniversary in France led us to a small town in the Bourdeaux region where I found this planter. I’ve wanted to use it all this summer and voila here it is 3 days before the equinox and I finally figured out how to use it. I put a sedum in it then lit […]
We are going to reverse the polarity because as of today, who knows about tomorrow, tulips are in the market. Tulips have a mind of their own. Their stems actually grow longer as they sit in the vase and their heads are always seeking the sun. This arrangement also uses alstromeria and wax flower for […]
