Category Archives: Flowers from your garden

10 Tips for Thanksgiving decorating.

Posted on by November 22, 2014
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Impress your family and friends, at the Thanksgiving meal, with your holiday centerpiece. The color and fragrance of fresh flowers on the table makes them feel like special guests. Allow the colorful foliages, textures and forms of the autumn season to inspire you.            As I wind up my curving driveway in the Fall, I always feel as though I am entering a live postcard. We can use … Read More >>>

Inspired by the Space

Posted on by November 19, 2014
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  Guests coming? To quickly add natural beauty to a room, simply add a few fresh flower faces to your favorite vases in special places. Enjoy impressing friends and family with your flower-savvy talents and celebrate life with flowers!    Follow these easy steps when arranging flowers for those special places in your home: Choose five eye-catching spaces –                                                  What are the special places in your home … Read More >>>

Daffodils or Jonquils? What is the difference?

Posted on by April 27, 2014
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Do you enjoy a springtime walk amidst sunny Daffodils …                                      or are those Jonquils?   Yes, I ‘m guilty, too.  I often use the names, daffodil and jonquil, interchangeably when referring to these happy-faced flowers of early spring.     As the first flowers to pop up beneath the brown branches of … Read More >>>

‘Arts & Flowers’ at the Centre for Performing & Visual Arts

Posted on by February 19, 2014
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If you enjoy being surrounded by beautiful flowers and talented people, look for an ‘Arts & Flowers’ or “Arts in Bloom’ event to attend in your area. It can be a fun outing that offers inspiring new ideas.               I recently enjoyed the opportunity to offer floral commentary for the creative works of local designers at the ‘Arts & Flowers’ event of the Centre for Performing Arts … Read More >>>

Wandering through a late summer garden

Posted on by October 3, 2013
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My friend, Georgia, and I recently spent a beautiful sunny afternoon taking a Hills and Dales Garden Tour in LaGrange, GA.  In addition to visiting the lovely Fuller E. Callaway home, we enjoyed wandering through the late summer flowers on our self-guided tour of the gardens. The estate and gardens are relatively small in scale, when compared to more massive estates across the country, but rich in detail. It was … Read More >>>

Keep a vase handy for flowers from your garden –

Posted on by August 15, 2013
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Enjoy your garden Hydrangea indoors!  Need inspiration for bringing DIY flowers from your garden indoors to decorate your home? Choose a simple, easy to use fresh flower vase and keep it handy for quick centerpiece ideas. … Read More >>>

Try this simple centerpiece –

Posted on by August 15, 2013
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It’s fun to design a simple floral centerpiece for your table. Use these easy to follow techniques, an Oasis Iglu, and the flowers and vase of your choice to quickly create this elegant arrangement. … Read More >>>

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Use hydrangea, lilies, and roses from your garden – on your table

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 If you enjoy growing beautiful hydrangea, lilies, and roses in your garden, follow these easy steps to arrange them into a centerpiece for your table.       Have fun with your flowers … both outdoors and indoors.
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Designing with ‘greens from your garden’

Posted on by August 15, 2013
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It’s fun to design with fresh foliages from your own garden. An inexpensive way to enjoy fresh floral materials daily in your home is to cut them from your garden. … Read More >>>