Book Review: Martha’s Flowers
Karen Martha Stewart and her Executive Design Director Kevin Sharkey, collaborated on this book, Martha’s Flowers, that celebrates home grown flowers and the arrangements that can be made with them.. The…
Book Review: Handpicked
Ingrid Carozzi, floral designer and owner of Tin Can Studios in Brooklyn, N.Y., shares her sustainable approach to flower arranging and provides instructions for making more than 35 arrangements in…
Garden Plants for Flower Arrangements: Trumpet Gentian (Gentiana acaulis)
This evergreen herbaceous perennial is native to the mountains of southern and central Europe where it can grow in full sun but have cool roots. This is a very demanding…
Garden Plants for Flower Arrangements: Gas Plant (Dictamnus albus)
Also called dittany and burning bush, gas plant is a herbaceous perennial with a woody base and is native to southwestern Europe and Asia where it lives in forests edges,…
Garden Plants for Flower Arrangements: Spotted Laurel (Acuba japonica)
Spotted laurel is a broad leaf evergreen shrub native to China, Japan and Korea where it grows in moist forest soils. Its variegated forms are very useful in both the…
Garden Plants for Flower Arrangements: Red Barrenwort (Epidmedium x rubrum)
Also called bishop’s hat, red barrenwort an herbaceous rhizomaceous perennial and a member of the barberry family (Berberidaceae). It is a hybrid between E. alpinum and E. grandiflorum and is…
Garden Plants for Flower Arrangements: Love-Lies-Bleeding (Amaranthus caudatus)
Also known as tassel flower, this annual is native to India, Africa, and Peru, and a member of the Amaranth family (Amaranthaceae), a diverse family that also includes beets, spinach,…
Garden Plants for Flower Arrangements: Garden Angelica (Angelica archangelica)
Garden angelica is a biennial native to cooler parts of Europe and Asia. It is a large plant and needs plenty of space in the garden. The first year it…
Garden Plants for Flower Arrangements: Bloody Cranesbill (Geranium sanguineum)
Bloody cranesbill is an herbaceous perennial native t Europe and temperate Asia where it grows in grasslands, open woodlands, sand dunes, and rocky slopes. Thick rhizomes form mounts of shallowly…
Garden Plants for Flower Arranging: Peachleaf Bellflower (Campanula persicifolia)
Peachleaf bellflower is an herbaceous perennial native to the mountains of Europe, North Africa, and Asia where it grows in meadows and woodland edges. It forms a evergreen basal rosette…