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Tag: flowers
bud vase
Pittosporum tenuifolium ‘Marjorie Channon’
Whenever I notice something for the first time, it makes me wonder what other beauty I am obliviously missing.
Grindelia camporum
Time for a new sketchbook. This one has a white canvas cover, which will quickly get grubby, so I decided to paint it. Watercolours definitely run amok on canvas!
Great Valley gumweed is native to California and Baja California, where it can be found in a number of habitats including chaparral and woodlands. The flower heads fill with a sticky white exudate that was reportedly used by the Chumash to treat poison-oak rash, skin diseases and pulmonary troubles.
bouquet of the day
It’s nice to be back home, and gathering flowers from the yard.
for Annette
Nasturtiums and Mexican marigolds are both very strongly scented flowers, one peppery, the other more citrusy. Put them in a vase together, and they create a visual riot, while the aromas somehow balance and calm each other. An analogy for my bestie and me? Maybe.
vase o’ v.a.s.e.
Today’s arrangement brought to you by Verbena, Aloe, Salvia and Encelia, whose initials, I just realised, spell VASE.
Lobby flowers
I arrived five minutes early for my lunch date—just enough time for a continuous line drawing of the lobby flower arrangement (colour added when I got home).
Ceanothus azureus ‘Concha’
I was actually surprised when I looked up the planting date on this shrub; it’s only been in the ground for 2.5 years — it seems longer. Looking at pictures of mature specimens, I’m excited for the future. But now I’m wondering why we went with a cultivar, not a local Ceanothus. Perhaps it’s all that was available at the nursery?
from Alli and Derek
Continuous line bouquet.
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