Flower Messengers With Lauren Luquin

Flower Messengers With Lauren Luquin

Like little signs on our path, flowers hold messages and meaning and if we look, listen and drink in the scent, flowers can inform us in our daily life. Ancient symbolism is held in flowers and by being aware of the symbolic language, you might find those walks in the garden or woods become a […]

Where There Are Flowers

Where There Are Flowers

Where there are flowers, there will be bees! Beautiful wildflower items from some of our favorite designers! We love this connection to nature, and how through meaningful objects we can appreciate the beauty flowers add to life! Such Great Heights Wildflowers Wonder Tent  Yume Hair Bows Mabo Kids Swim & Sunsuit Fabrik Store Sleeping Bag […]

Fresh Flower Pajaki

Fresh Flower Pajaki

Polish Pajaki have caught my attention over the years, and I have periodically thought of making one. What is traditionally a paper flower and straw chandelier, that translates to mean “spiders of straw” I have appropriated with my love of fresh seasonal flora. For those of you curious to know more, Pajaki are a Polish […]

Liberty Farms Sunflower Maze

Liberty Farms Sunflower Maze

This was our first time going to the Liberty Farms Sunflower Maze. Located in Sussex County, Northern New Jersey – day trip distance from NYC. I adore sunflowers and just happened to stumble across this gem while looking up local sunflower growers. As it turns out with over 1.5 million flowers it is the largest […]

Hat Decorating and Potpourri

Hat Decorating and Potpourri

When lightening strikes, there is illumination and just like that, suddenly I am filled with light and energy from an idea… “Oh, we have to decorate hats with fresh flowers!” I exclaimed to the girls. The notion filled me with life, and the imagination of the beauty was so great, I just had to do […]

Tendril Flower Crown

Tendril Flower Crown

I worked on a flower crown today, and felt a strong urge to extend it further, with flowers hanging into the hair. This is an evolution from my usual flower crown style into an asymmetrical crown with flower tendrils. Partly this had to do with the lovely purple Campanula growing all through our garden as […]

It Is Almost Maypole

It Is Almost Maypole

With maypole only a week away, it means it is time to stop and smell the flowers! Maypole, which happens on May Day  (May 1st) is a day full of lovely traditions. It is a day to wear flowers in your hair, sing and skip with ribbons and to leave flower offerings on the doorsteps […]

Garden Flower Crown

Garden Flower Crown

A couple of weeks ago I made this wonderful flower clown. We were predicted to have a week of rain and so we went out into the garden and picked all the flowers in bloom that would not survive the downpour. I then made three flower crowns, one for each of us. It ended up […]

Making Nature Mandalas

Making Nature Mandalas

Since the first buds of spring we have been making flower art, and we are getting so much pleasure from it, we just have to share! One of our favorite activities has been making flower patterns, or mandalas. I remember the first one Elle and I made in March, in an almost desperate need to play with […]

Bluebell Crown

Bluebell Crown

The bluebells are flowering in our garden, and I find them quite irresitable. The long slender stalk with dainty periwinkle bell shaped flowers hanging perfectly from it. They smell divine too. I handled them a little and after a few days of thinking it came to me how I could work with them. Part of […]

Blossom Bonnet

Blossom Bonnet

I woke on this Saturday morning with a clear goal to to make a flower bathing cap, like you would have seen in the 50″s, but with real, fresh cherry blossoms. We had spent the week admiring the  blooming double cherry blossoms and I think my annual attraction to playing with them here and here […]

Reeves Reed Daffodil Bowl

Reeves Reed Daffodil Bowl

One afternoon last week  Elle and I collected Maya from school and we drove to the Reeves Reed Arboretum. It is in a neighbouring town not too far from our house. Close enough to make it an after school trip. This was the first time we had been there. Much like Van Vleck House, which […]

Branch Brook Cherry Blossoms

Branch Brook Cherry Blossoms

Spring flowers seemed to come and go in a week this year with yo-yo weather making the flowers bloom early, and over quickly. We were lucky that the week of Spring break was the peak of the cherry trees blooming and so we made a trip to Branch Brook Park to enjoy the blossoms. This […]

New Jersey Botanical Gardens

New Jersey Botanical Gardens

I am not sure where the days have gone, but my goodness they slip away….Not last Thursday, but the Thursday before, Thursday March 22nd…we spent the day at the New Jersey Botanical Gardens, which is also the site of Skyland Manor. This was an exceptionally warm day of early Spring, with the predicted temperature to climb […]

Botanic Blossoms

Botanic Blossoms

We made our way to the BBG to enjoy Hanami – Hanami at BBG is a month-long event from April 2 to May 1 that celebrates the Japanese cultural tradition of enjoying each moment of the cherry blossom season. This weekend the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens hold an annual blossom festival – Sakura Matsuri, celebrating the blooming of the cherry […]

Petal Power

Petal Power

Around this time of Spring in New York City there is an abundance of flowers. It seems like everything is in bloom. For a few week around the end of April and the first weeks of May, everywhere you look you are likely to see garden beds and trees radiant with spring colours. The colour […]

Fairy Garden

Fairy Garden

This week we continued to work on the Garden. As it is our second year working in the garden I now have a little more knowledge of what to expect to see. I have begun to formulate a mental list of annuals and perennials, and am getting a better sense of how to garden in […]

Key West - Flora & Fauna

Key West – Flora & Fauna

Key West is a subtropical environment abundant with the flora and fauna unique to areas slightly above or below the tropic of Capricorn and the tropic of Cancer. Having grown up in a subtropical environment, I felt right at home amongst the frangipani, hibiscus and profuse boganvillia. Interestingly though, non of the flowers or trees on […]