Gardening

Pretty in Pink Impatiens

“She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me.

I ought never to have run away from her…

I ought to have guessed all the affection 

that lay behind her poor little stratagems. 

Flowers are so inconsistent!

But I was too young to know how to love her…”

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,

The Little Prince

The Bugs of Summer

“Even without seeing the crickets, 

grasshoppers, cicadas, and katydids, 

we hear them shrilling in this season 

and trust that they’re the tiny

living gargoyles entomologists claim.”

~ Diane Ackerman 

The Hypnotic Hydrangea 

“Even in the smallest and humblest garden, a sturdy hydrangea at once proclaims the place 

as the abode of a real gardener rather than 

a mere purchaser of plants 

to cover the landscape.”

~ Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin, 2006

The Delicate Daisy

“I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women’s fragrances we have evoked different types, moods, or sensibilities of a woman – whether it’s Daisy with the sweetness and the innocence or Lola which is more provocative, sexy, and sultry.”

~ Marc Jacobs

The Beauty of a Peony

“I want to encourage women

to embrace their own

uniqueness. Because just like

a rose is beautiful, so is a

sunflower, so is a peony. I

mean, all flowers are beautiful

in their own way, and that’s

like women, too.”

~ Miranda Kerr 

Behold the Lovely Clematis 

“The common hill-flowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth.”~ Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”.