Author: Jill Brooke
$25 Million for a Claude Monet “Water Lilies?”
By Jill Brooke If you want to make a splash opening your Hong Kong auction house, leave it to flowers to help. Christie’s just announced it will offer Monet’s iconic “Water Lilies” painting for auction for its launch on September 26th. Titled “Nympheas (1897-1899), Art Net says it is “one of the most valuable Western …
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Top White Hydrangeas for Stunning Blooms in Your Garden
By Jill Brooke Experts say that this has been the best year for big fluffy exuberant hydrangeas in over 20 years. The reasons are many. A mild winter without freezing temperatures in many zones allowed buds to survive longer and flourish. A wet April and May. And of course, science where experienced breeders have …
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Blake Lively Stuns in Floral Fashions For New Movie
By Jill Brooke Thank you Blake Lively for creating a runway show of fabulous floral fashions and accessories. Promoting her upcoming movie “It Ends With Us” Lively stars as a woman opening a floral shop in Boston. For her role as “Lily Bloom,” the Gossip Girl alumna is cleverly embracing all things floral. There are …
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Deets on Special Olympics Red Dahlia for Paris 2024
Look out for a special red flower to commemorate the Paris 2024 Olympics! What style the French have in presenting the Paris 2024 Olympics. Not only did opening acts include Lady Gaga and the return of Celine Dion, both decked out in Dior – but a special flower called the Olympic Games Dahlia was created …
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How American Flower Farms Creating Entertaining Experiences
By Jill Brooke The American Grown Field to Vase Dinner Tour invites guests nationwide to dine in the fields of America’s most stunning flower and foliage farms. The dinner tour is a cross-country series of gatherings where seasonal blooms and foliage dazzle on beautifully designed tablescapes dressed by top U.S. floral designers, while gourmet meals …
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Once in a Lifetime “Century Plant” Now at Longwood Gardens
By Jill Brooke Patience pays off as Longwood Gardens routinely discovers and teaches others. The esteemed Pennsylvania botanists have waited nearly two decades for a roof popping bloom of Agave americana, known as the Century Plant. This perennial succulent is monocarpic, meaning it only blooms once before it dies, making it a truly once-in-a-lifetime event. …
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Calming Flowers for a Peaceful, Fragrant Garden with Ken Druse
Syringa vulgaris, the common or French lilac. Describing a scented flower as simply “fragrant” might work for some floral archivists. But it doesn’t cut it for Ken Druse, the award-winning author, photographer, and gardener who has 20 books to his name. “I wanted to know more and say more,” Druse writes in his latest book, …
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Top 10 Vibrant Annuals to Brighten Your Garden All Season Long
By Jill Brooke In the town of Bedford, home to many privacy-seeking celebrities and stalwart matriarchs, there is one man who is the go-to guy for anything regarding gardening. Myles Brown is his name and he runs the Perennial Gardens garden center in this New York hamlet that is home to Martha Stewart, Blake Lively …
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Art in Bloom Dazzles with Creativity in North Carolina
By Jill Brooke All across the country, museums have found that an Art in Bloom event – where floral artists interpret the museum’s existing paintings- are both crowd-pleasers and moneymakers. The North Carolina Museum of Art has its annual event and here are some of the floral artists’ interpretations of favored paintings. The museum often …
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Best Floral Fashions from MET Gala 2024
Here are some highlights flower lovers of the dresses – and costumes – from the annual MET gala. With the theme of “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” it was going to be our type of fashion. Zendaya – as we knew – dazzled. She wore not one, but TWO dresses, First, a Maison Margiela by John …