Best Way to Keep Cut Flowers Fresh For Long Time

You’ve just got a bouquet or floral arrangement home. Maybe it was delivered (wrapped or in water), or you picked the flowers up at a floris...

black and white pencil skirt, dots and bows

It's a bit more Autumnal today. I wore my favourite black and white houndstooth pencil skirt; it's made from silk linen and boned fo...

Magnolia Flowering Trees

Most modern landscapes cannot support huge trees. Fortunately, most trees have dwarf varieties or similar smaller species to choose from. W...

green silk dress

Almost one whole month into Autumn (I know, I sound obsessed!) and we had a cooler, cloudy day. I got this 1960s dress from etsy about a yea...

Columbine Flowers in Garden

With flowers suspended on thin, wiry stems, bobbing along in the breeze as if floating on water, the columbine makes the perfect addition t...

My sales blog

Oh, this was so hard to do: I have finally set up my sales blog. I am going to sell some clothes and shoes that I've bought over the pas...

Flowers' Power in the Perfume

Longwood's blooms illustrate new exhibit that explores the art and passion of fragrance. Flowers' power in the perfume world will ...

1960s dress form

Yesterday (Saturday) I got something I have been looking for for ages – a dress form. And a 1960s one, still in its original box, no less. I...

Problems in Dahlias Flowers

Dahlia buds are round before them open into flower and funnel shaped after they flower. It is also not possible to have a seed head without ...

Daffodil Hill Farm

Daffodil Hill farm may be just the right location for your next family outing. Located about an hour outside of Sacramento, Daffodil Hill i...

1970s playsuit

Another day, another scorcher here... over 30C! This weekend I found this 1970s playsuit at a local opp shop. Actually it took me two goes; ...

Gardening Flowery Plants

It's so heartening to see signs of spring all around, after the long and cold winter. Flower buds are swelling on the forsythia and brid...

Cherry Blossom Blooming Started

Warm weather and abundant sunshine in Washington, D.C., will allow the celebrated cherry trees to blossom earlier than expected. The Nationa...

cream and black booties

We had a dip in the temperatures, and some big rain clouds to boot (boom, boom) so it seemed a good time to road test my new booties. (Which...

Rosebud Flower Blooms in Space

This image shows AFGL 3193 what looks like a rosebud a small piece of a very complicated region of gas, dust, and stars in the constellation...

Clematis Armandii Flowering Type

Clematis varieties are among some of the most prized twining climbers in the Bay Area. The diversity of foliage aside, there are 10 categor...

10 Best Flowering Shrubs

Hardy shrubs have declined in popularity in recent years, partly because of our love of herbaceous perennials, which are considered, rightl...

black flowers

It's Autumn. It's really hot. I am ready for darker things. Colder days. I've been cleaning out my wardrobe, and had a little he...

Do You Collect Snowdrops In Flower?

To those who love and collect snowdrops , little distinctions make these bulbs worth the hunt. "You start looking at them a little clos...