Comfort me in a vast surround of rose blossoms - with Christin, June 2016 in the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden Here's a rhetorical question for you. Does everyone need to find a place where they feel like a gleeful little kid? If you're like me, you like to look outside the door for the reassurances of the power and beauty of nature. My assurances come in the abundant show of flowers that occurs every year at certain junctures in time. … [Read more...]
The Long Season; Delight of the Dahlia – As the Garden Season Draws to a Close
image courtesy Frances Palmer, for whom I thank for getting the ole light bulb to go off this season taken yesterday in front of my garage - captioned "mini me" One season leads to another - such an obvious statement and yet, today, for me, a resonance of hope and anticipation......... There are a few women with whom I share a passion for surrounding themselves with hoards of bright, exquisite blooms the year round. On the top of my … [Read more...]
Another Stellar Day at NYBG in the Rose Garden; A Word about the Ironies of Life
"Joyful, joyful we adore thee." Can you hear what calls to you? Will you honor it? This is the true essence of spirituality and thankfulness for me……. Far be it for me to self-annoint as a Renaissance Woman. Mine is the orientation of the opposite, working always from the net-deficit position in life. So, I'll go as far as to say that I am, yes, obsessed with all things of a Renaissance-orientation - including music, art, … [Read more...]
All the World’s a Stage – Do Flowers Perform A Shameless Show? Pollinators Know the Answer
If flowers were dresses, what a wardrobe I'd have! (my something akin to: If wishes were horses, beggars would ride circa 1600s) Question of the Day: Do flowers instinctively perform a shameless show? (pollinators know the answer). I think I can actually feel that this morning! They seem to be boastfully popping and parading in a state of unbridled glee. And, this brings me to the very same state. While I'll sit here and be silly … [Read more...]
Everything’s Coming Up Roses
Gypsy - Ethel Merman Circa 1959 Mine is a very specific form of insanity. I'm insane about flowers. I don't really think this disorder shows up in the hallmarks of traditional psychology, does it? I'll have to ask my two nieces who have PhDs……. I am guessing it shows up somewhere as a subset under the heading: too-far-gone-obsessions. Further, I don't know what it says about me in that I am perfectly ok with being this far gone down … [Read more...]
One Week Later at NYBG – Hard to Imagine, Splendor in the Grass
can you top these? High Season - Tulips Many years ago I read Ruth Reichl's memoir, Comfort Me With Apples. I get that, I do. Perhaps, my version, even though I am just as in love with cooking, would be Comfort Me With Beauty - and Flowers would be the number one source, i.e. Comfort Me With Flowers - but in a totally uplifting way (not ANY of those funeral varieties - they'd all have to be out-of-doors in their own habitats and bees … [Read more...]
An Extraordinary Day in the Bronx – My Vote for THE New York Flower Show
I spent the day in the Bronx today - probably a place that most people I know don't go out of their way to visit unless it's to go to see the Yankees or are driving home from the Hamptons. But today I went on purpose - to visit the New York Botanical Garden on the eve of their Daffodil Weekend. What a major league (no pun intended) treat! No other words are really necessary here except to say that if you have the opportunity to go this weekend … [Read more...]
Mystical-Magical, Tingles-on-Your-Tongue Honey; Lemon-Corn Scones with Chestnut Honey
I'm convinced honey is alive! Read on……... You know me, I am absolutely obsessed with the bees and their honey! This Fall I mistakenly killed a honey bee in my yard and it took me several hours to get over it - I kid you not. You may be thinking as you read this that I really do need to get a life here, but in all honesty, every single honey bee is worth protecting! These creatures, along with butterflies and hummingbirds are constant … [Read more...]
Closing Ceremonies, A Carolyne Roehm Apprentice, and a Survival Guide for Winter
the "Do Tell" Peony (photo courtesy Hollingsworth Peonies) honestly could be my new all-time favorite Pssst, don't tell anybody, but I am so enjoying this Fall here in New Jersey. It has just been the greatest collection of glorious sunny days that I can honestly remember, hasn't it? Enjoying my flowers and having all these weeks to be and work outside have been a great bonus for me, right up through this past week of 70F+ days. I'm … [Read more...]
Photographic Memory – That Very Moment
just as the sun lifts over the tree line and begins to cast its magic No, I'm not blessed with a photographic memory in the most well-known sense. But, the term can be aptly applied in another sense……. On mornings such as this, I sit and wait. There is nothing like that very moment when the sun just lifts its way over the tree tops and begins to shed light over the landscape. There is about an hour in the early mornings, albeit a bit … [Read more...]
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