autumn dress

Well, today is officially the last day of Autumn here in Melbourne. And what better to farewell my favourite season than by wearing my Autum...

1950s sheer blue dress with collar

Yesterday I wore my 1950s sheer dark blue dress. It has a white peter pan collar and cuffs, and red rhinestone buttons. I love it! I wore it...

Yarrow Colorful Tiny Flowers

Achillea has a dozen nicknames including yarrow, old man’s pepper, milfoil, thousand-leaf, wound-wort, devil's nettle and others. The sp...

floral tights

My friend gifted me (I usually wince a bit at that expression, but it seems less clumsy than saying gave me as a present... though I have no...

Flower Attracting Bees are the Pollinators of Garden

Ninety percent of the world's crops are pollinated by insects especially bees. Bees are attracted to colorful flowers, but what keeps th...

Harlequin Blue RHS Plant of the Year at Chelsea Flower Show

A bi-colored version of a popular houseplant, Streptocarpus ‘Harlequin Blue’, has been named RHS Plant of the Year at Chelsea Flower Show. I...

finds: blouses and handbags

Well, just one blouse, actually: a 1960s pale blue one with lace trims and a bib? ruffle? detail at the collar. Two handbags/purses, though,...

Natural Medicines using Rose Flowers

The queen of flowers, the rose is an enduring symbol of love and romance. But for centuries it has also been valued for its medicinal, thera...

Flowers Play a Major Role of Attractiveness in Nature

After a week of cold, wind and rain it was great to get out and walk through the woods on a sunny day. The early spring ephemerals had their...

Flower Carpet Roses Gives Fancy for Garden

There's nothing simple about roses when you grow the hybrid tea types. They require too much care and too many unwanted chemicals to kee...

1950s red stripe dress

... and a petticoat! I've worn my big fluffy white foofpa (a pet name for it; much less of a mouthful than full fifties-style petticoat)...

Peonies Flowers Queen of the Garden

Peonies are called the queen of garden flowers for their month-long, annual display of huge, scented, single and double blossoms. Ideal for ...

Buckeye Belle Peonies Flower

Peonies in recent years an early-flowering, ruby red peony called 'Buckeye Belle' has taken center stage. This semi-double has gloss...

Disney Topiaries at Epcot's Flower and Garden Festival

As anyone who’s ever stepped foot in a Disney park can also attest, Disney does gardens well. Perhaps that's a bit of an understatement....

Lemon Symphony Osteospermum Flowers

Osteosperum used to belong to the genus Dimorphotheca, but only the annual species remain in that genus; the perennials belong to Osteosperm...

Papers, A Webcomic About the Arizona Immigration Law

With Mitt Romney being taken seriously as a presidential candidate this late in the campaign after everyone's original reaction (and the...

Million Bells Flowers For Your Garden

Those who love plants have surely been to their favorite garden center this spring and noticed calibrachoa, the great warm-season performer ...

just before dark

Yesterday I got home just as the sun was going down, and managed to take a few pics of what was left of the light. I was wearing my new vint...

Beautiful and Aromatic Lilacs Flower

The lilacs bloomed early this year. It must have been that warm spell in mid-April. The 80-degree temperatures jump-started the lilacs and c...

Flower Garden for Tasty Recipes

Get all the best and tasty recipes at your flowering garden. These small efforts and others below can make your meals more fun and your kitc...

Poet's Daffodil Blooming Season

Narcissus poeticus (Poet's Daffodil, Nargis, Pheasant's Eye, Findern Flower, and Pinkster Lily) was one of the first daffodils to be...

Marigold Flowers Care Itself

Like flowers in your garden, but don’t want to go through too much trouble? There’s a flower to help you. It’s called the Marigold. Other th...

vintage jade green dress

It was cold enough again to wear a dress I bought months and months ago but hadn't worn yet. This soft wool dress reminds me of those se...