Fall is my favorite time of the year. I still remember that line Meg Ryan had in You’ve Got Mail—”I love the smell of a bouquet of freshly sharpened pencils!” Today’s Friday Flowers will be all about the leaves. I am always amazed at the dazzling display of autumnal foliage. Here are just a few…
Just because you are my friends…you get this glorious red arrangement. I am Mad for red this season! This pavé arrangement of red roses makes me want to get over minimalism and move right into color and light. This location is the magnificent Restaurant Rote Bar at the Hotel Sacher in Vienna. Maybe this red…
Welcome Friday and the weekend! Friday—what a wonderful feeling the mere mention of Friday brings! Fridays also bring outdoor fun, shopping, food, trips, family or sometimes just plain relaxing. I could use a little relaxing right about now. Freshen your entry this weekend by adding new flowers to greet those fun, entertaining visitors that stop…
Fall in the mountains is always my favorite time of the year. Cool crisp air, fires at night, gardens still in bloom and always the best view in town. These lovely beauties are making their way into my home later today. I really didn’t realize I had planted sooo many white hydrangea. This year the…
Welcome to Spring and Summer heaven! Having a bad day? It happens to all of us now and then. Deadlines creep up, kids need ‘extra’ attention, husbands travel too much or maybe the early Spring–Summer humidity just has the best of you. I have the PERFECT solution to help you snap back into shape—SHOPPING! Forget…
Do hotel flowers count as Friday flowers—of course they do! These lovely arrangements are from a recent wedding trip to Ireland. I have been saving them for a beautiful Spring day and today is that day. I love the idea of color blocking the hydrangea and viburnum like in the first picture. The ferns in…
I love it when a guest brings flowers…or champagne. A lovely house guest of mine must have cut every flower in her garden to bring me this beautiful assortment of blooms. There were at least four dozen daffodils—all from her home garden! Note to self—plant more bulbs. Arranging them took me a little while…
