Category Archives: Holidays

because it’s hip to be a square…

mini pumpkins anyone? or a dash of dried quince?

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Blarney!

Merry St. Patrick’s Day!    Moss-wrapped glass with aspidistra, Boston fern, euphorbia, green hydrangea, kermits, ming fern, and artichokes!

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February Love

Valentine’s Day doesn’t have to be all reds and pinks.  It was so cold outside as I was creating this arrangement, that I couldn’t help but embrace the cool silvers and ethereal dusty miller.  The savory smell of the local Mon Cherie roses and the asymmetry of the single large rose succuluent invite romance without being too sugary....

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Christmas Pizazz

Every year I am asked to design Christmas arrangments for all of my mother’s close friends and relatives.  I agree, only on condition that my mother and sisters come over to work on the arrangements with me.  That way I force feed them some design technique and get some help with the grunt work all...

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Gourds. Gourds. Gourds.

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