I’m experimenting, truly, with media so I thought it might be fine to include a video in this post which is a bit about Mayday. May 1, Mayday, has been celebrated as some kind of holiday in many cultures and traditions, perhaps most especially in the British Isles. Given the historical US ties to […]
I hope you are enjoying this array of topics. I promise a post on vegetable gardening is coming up. We are a third of the way through the month of April. And a third of a the way through National/Global poetry writing month. There may be more people than usual trying their hands at […]
It may be day ‘whatever’ of our new abnormal (not willing to call it new normal) but it is Day 5 of National/global poetry writing month. My group of poets has been hard at work collectively creating from around the globe. Apparently because I have time on my hands, I seeded another small poetry boom […]
Because I am a floral artist, designer and gardener (and work in a garden nursery part time) I am definitely keeping my eye on the current greening of my environment. Zone 8 (where I live) is bursting with springtime that I know some of you in other, colder parts of the world, may not yet […]
Nothing easier than a vase full of rhodies and a bit of spirea. The Pacific NW is rhodie country and our garden has five mature specimens. June is busting out all over the garden. Roses, clematis, alstromeria and much more. There is so much to chose from right now it’s difficult to keep up. […]
If you go to a local garden store in these heady days of spring you’re likely to encounter pretty much all the colors of the rainbow and then some. But blue flowers, true blue flowers are the least common. Blue flowers tend more to purple in general which is why I grow these lovelies […]
There are a few things in our garden that remain as we found them. Rhododendrons that put on their show in May, a snowball bush, some orange azaleas, and an old pink, climbing rose. The rose is in a difficult location. It gets dappled sun in the morning and afternoon and is always stretching to […]
It’s lilac season, or the end of lilac season as my lilacs are showing their age. Nonetheless, I thought a vignette featuring lilacs was/is in order. I only wish you could smell them too! Two elements of the vignette – The narrow green vase with allium, ladies mantel and columbine. The smallest element, with a […]
The garden is awash with color. Tulips, clematis, Chinese fringeflower, snowball viburnum. Simple purple glass vase.
Right now in the garden, the plant I love to hate — bluebells. They are everywhere, spread somehow (ants?). And yet, this time of year they bloom and I love the skyblue-ness of them. So featured in a petite bedside vase. Muscari, bluebells, epimedium, and bleeding heart. I have a sweet, though small collection of […]
Rooms in Bloom 