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Yesterday in The Sun Elizabeth Large wrote an article about accessories in the home with references to the Antique Show held last week at the Convention Center. She quoted a number of interior decorators in the Baltimore area to ask their opinion about how to use your collectibles. This gem of a Japanese laquered box […]
Here sits a lovely pink planter topped with pink stock on a pine table with the afternoon sun casting its warm glow.
This low lying rose centerpiece makes no bones about it. If you are sitting across from me, we have to talk, maybe not politics but definitely about our children’s extra-curricular activities. No hiding now but you could let the centerpiece do the talking!
The Ridgley Family crest is “Beware of the Stag” and here we have a cup of a stag from their ancestral home, Hampton Mansion. How charming these rosebud stag head cups would be gracing your dinner table. John and Eliza Ridgely who took a keen interest in the estate’s land grew flowers on the parterres […]
Stock and Rose Planter Vibrant stock and roses skirted with eucalyptus gives a formal “How Do You Do.” Hope you feel better!
Saturday mornings at the Waverly Farmer’s Market make you feel the day of the year. The end of summer shows itself by the flowers in this bouquet – dahlias, sunflowers, celosia, goldenrod and asters. What a joy to carry them home. I gridded my vase with clear tape so that I could position the flowers […]
Green cabbage soup with purple stock. A nice little statement for the foyer or four seater table. Watch for more ornamental cabbage soup recipes.
I was lit up, so to speak, by this beaded flower lamp made in Czechoslovakia during the early 1900s. There are no markings on it to tell who or which company/person designed and crafted it but because it it low you can really see the full effect. The beads were made by molds and […]
Italian sardine crocks and Provencal mixing bowls drew me and a small crowd to the booth of The Elephant’s Ear at the Baltimore Antique Show this weekend. John Grafe, the dealer from Jackson, MS imports these wonderful crockery that makes you think doubly of cooking and gardening.
Sorry, species not known but just wanted to show how the color red can be introduced in an arrangement through leaves as well as berries and flowers. I’ll be back in Baltimore tomorrow, looking for that next vase. Actually I found a little one that you’ll see this weekend. I’m excited about some of the […]
Medicinals are not the only tropicals that David McLean grows in his mile long rain forest like nursery in Davie, Florida. It’s just that the plants he wanted to show me first were all medicinals. Like African tropical oregano, beautiful variegated leaves. The Australian tea tree, its oil used as an antibiotic during World War […]
