Category Archives: cut flowers
glass floral frog
There was some good-natured bartering done among ourselves at the end of the recent flea market/bloggers’ pop-up shop in December. I swapped Dustin one of Marty’s sailor knot creations for this glass floral frog. Floral frogs have an old-fashioned, tight-laced … Continue reading
Posted in cut flowers, pots and containers
Tagged floral frogs, Helleborus argutifolius, winter blooms
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flea market prep
I had so much fun yesterday organizing for the flea market this Sunday. Tapping poppy seeds into packets, gathering up all the lab beakers into a partitioned wooden box for a safe journey, making bunches of dried poppy seedpods to … Continue reading
Sunday clippings 12/8/13
(baby, it’s cold outside…) The cold front that’s been scaring the bejeezus out of Central Valley citrus growers hit new lows last night. The back garden temperature gauge registered 40 degrees at 7ish a.m., but that’s our moderating coastal influence … Continue reading
tithonia for Clarice Cliff
I’m still cutting buckets of tithonia from the community garden plot and filling every vase in the house, even those I usually leave empty, like this museum reissue of a Clarice Cliff vase, the 20th century British ceramic artist famous … Continue reading
Posted in artists, cut flowers, design
Tagged Bloomsbury, ceramics, Clarice Cliff, Tithonia rotundifolia
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seasonal bouquet project 10/1/13
African basil, Persicaria orientalis, zinnias, tithonia, crithmum, autumn light and shadows, all wrapped up in a rutabaga vase for a Dutch still-life, abundance-of-summer effect. I should have grabbed a snail or two as bit players to slipperfoot up the side … Continue reading
this summer’s dahlias
I moved my one dahlia, the deep burgundy ‘Chat Noir,’ to my community garden plot this summer. Performance was…meh. By August the plant was finished. The soil at the CG still needs work if it’s to grow anything but zinnias … Continue reading
cage lights
Cage lights, suspended for hanging candles, flowers. I love messing around with them. last night early this morning About the same size and shape as a cage light, this orange shade was found a while back at Building Resources and … Continue reading
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Tagged Building, cage lights, Echeveria glauca's flowers, hanging vases, miscanthus, repurposing, tithonia, zinnias
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tithonia and zinnias
The last week temperatures have hovered mostly around 90 degrees, by far the warmest days we’ve seen all summer. Even though I’m none too pleased with the change, tomatoes, zucchini, tithonia and zinnias obviously are thrilled. I’m linking this post … Continue reading
the first summer dahlias and a freakish summer rain
I moved the dahlias to the community garden this year and am so very glad I did. Just as in my own small home garden last year, the plant is a sprawling mess, but now I don’t have to look … Continue reading
cage light vase
If you happen to have a marine cage light in the garage, and some lengths of chain in your garden shed, all of which came to light after a thorough cleaning and organizing marathon today, you can take a short … Continue reading