The first day of spring was Wednesday. I don’t know how it is where you live but from a number of reports, including here in my home zone, spring is a reluctant debutante. Even so I was able to grab a handful of spring out of the garden. Spring beauties int his bouquet include clematis, […]
Yes, it’s deep winter here. Rain and clouds every day. I’m in the process of writing an article for our local plant society journal on the topic of garden to vase. There’s a surprising amount of plant material available even if most of it is greenery. I have two takes on the almost the same […]
My daughter gifted me with an interesting horseshoe shaped vessel. I used it in my last post but now have the opportunity to try it out with some garden blooms – wintersweet, skimmia and hellebores all from the garden. I was surprised that a cosmopolitan city like Dakar (Senegal) did not really have flower shops […]
It’s our custom to go out and find what’s blooming in our yard for Christmas. This year is a bit sparse but the hellebores and even roses! remind me that spring will come. It always does. Happy holidays to you all.
A surprise in the garden, a blooming Hellabore (the green flower foreground and white in back of it) also known as Christmas Rose since this plant might bloom in December. Which obviously it has for me. Wintersweet (black berries) and variegated euonymous round out the arrangement. Small vase, about 4″ tall, an estate sale find […]
Process and Product Materials and structures in process And end result Repurposed as street art
Working with very autumnal material. V.1. with only Chinese Lanterns V.2. With the addition of some garden dahlias And in position on the mantel
As probably is fitting for a floral designer, I have an abundance of vases. At least 40 of some kind at last count. And that doesn’t count the other things I use as containers/vessels. I thought it would be fun to challenge myself to use every one of my vessels/vases through the year. Voila, the […]
A group I volunteer with had their spring fundraiser today and a friend and I were in charge of the arrangements, color scheme, etc. The space has a bright red wall which could have been a limiting factor. The other issue was sightlines. And of course cost! I chose a color scheme of black/white and […]
Did you know that Japanese flower arrangement, Ikebana, has its roots in Chinese flower arrangement? Before I began preparing for a demonstration at the Lan Su Chinese Garden, I didn’t either, although I have had some training in Ikebana. Apparently, when Buddhism crossed into Japan, flower arranging techniques associated with temple offerings crossed over […]
Rooms in Bloom 