Category: Flowers

  • Crazy about Cosmos

    August 25, 2023
    I never realised until this year that some species of bees sleep in flowers. Apparently they are always male: the…
  • Flowers for summer bouquets I

    July 2, 2023
    It's mid-summer and I'm spending a lot of time doing what I love the most: not planting and not weeding…
  • Ranunculus Revisited

    June 5, 2023
    It's been a great year for ranunculus here in Victoria, even though the season was unfortunately brought to a premature…
  • Tulips

    May 15, 2023
    Anyone who reads this blog regularly will have discovered that I have something of an aversion to striped flowers. Each…
  • Victorian flower arranging

    April 23, 2023
    Long before Gertrude Jekyll published Flower Decoration in the House in 1907 and Constance Spry opened her shop, Flower Decoration,…
  • Easter lilies

    April 4, 2023
    I dropped into the shops this morning and found myself assaulted by a strong whiff of lily. Combined with the…
  • Spring has sprung: here comes the daffodil

    March 29, 2023
    She wore her yellow sun-bonnet, She wore her greenest gown; She turned to the south wind And curtsied up and…
  • Pleasures of the nose: fragrant flowers in early spring

    March 4, 2023
    March has arrived, coming in like the proverbial lion, and it’s a decidedly nasty day. Everyone is impatient for spring.…
  • Violets for Valentine

    February 14, 2023
    Roses are red Violets are blue; But they don't get around Like the dandelions do. Slim Acres I'm always open…
  • Reflexing flowers

    February 7, 2023
    It's not a new technique but reflexing flowers has again become very popular with floral designers over the past year…