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A riot of color. Why not on a hot summer’s day. The arrangement is made with the soaked oasis sitting two inches high above the vase so the flowers can have short stems to lengthen the life of the arrangement. A pastel centerpiece to beat the heat for a summer birthday party. Hint: Shorten the […]
This clay pot was made in Fayoum, Egypt. I was lucky enough to find such a unique vessel at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., Georgetown, to be more exact. Because it’s not glazed, I’d probably use a sleeve if you wanted to do a fresh arrangement. Instead I put Blackbeard Reeds to complement as […]
The ingredients for this recipe call for four greens, a wide leaf to cover the oasis in the vase, salal leaves, asparagus ferns, and variegated pittosporum. We had about 7 fully opened “Virginia” roses, pink tinged white carnations, and hypericum berries. The arrangement is skirted with pink and white alstromeria which help hide the top […]
How whimsical these paper flowers are like a giraffe’s head above the grasses. The Indonesian vase is large in scale, perfect for a lobby or pediatric practice foyer. Of course we can’t limit this arrangement to that. It’s got staying power, certainly an investment that pays dividends. Hint: One village makes an arrangement.
Mr. Duke has a pinholder hiding in his tummy. The glads are glad he does. They stand up straight because a pinholder is holding them up. These glads were the ends, the tips of the stalks that I had a couple of days ago. I just clipped the ends off and let Duke strut his […]
Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, MD is just outside the Washington, D.C. beltway near Silver Spring. In our younger years we would take road trips there for the mammouth jungle gym and for me, the gardens. They have beds of perrenials, annuals, a green house and a gorgeous pond in their Japanese Garden. This planter would […]
What a vase – doesn’t it speak to you of summer? No need to add any other color but white to this Fern Hill vase. The blooms are peegee hydrangeas cut from the morning light before the afternoon sunshine. Crocodile ferns with their spiny underside adds a neat texture. You can see where we cut the flowers […]
It’s fun to go back to the fundamentals sometimes to see if you can actually pull it off. This is called an “L-shaped” arrangement, usually opening to the right. I used the Bells of Ireland to make the strong “L” then filled the inside with purple asters. The irises and the carns on the bottom […]
What a neat vase to put some glads in. Tall, can hold at least three stems and its clear, bubbled surface lends itself to a casual look. A set of three would make a striking design. The glads are at their finest, a genus of South Africa. The last funnel bloom occurs about 10 days […]
Portland, Oregon is lovely. We had a short stay there this week and loved every minute of it. My friends’ house is built into a hill at about a 80 degree angle. The garden seems to fall right into their familyroom. Their terraced beds had roses, hydrangeas matched with Acanthus and moss everywhere. I remarked […]
How excited I was to find this vase at Anthropologie. It was in the front of the store, displayed for the eye to see immediately. Yes, the price is great but even more than that young girls and guys are being told perhaps sublimely that flowers are good, flowers are necessary. I made this arrangement […]
Remember how I was attempting to do a Hogarth Curve with the urn from the Talbot County Historical Society. Well the more I looked at the arrangement the more I saw the need to put the Latin Lady roses above the Stargazer lilies as well as below them, in essence making a diagonal line. You can see […]
