Author: Jill Brooke
Collages are Biographies for Artist Cynthia Parsons McDaniel
By Jill Brooke Anyone who knows artist Cynthia Parsons McDaniel marvels at her ability to be a modern-day alchemist. She really is the queen of reinvention – long before it was a trend. With likable charm and sheer force of personality, she seamlessly segues into various careers with elan. She’s worked as a movie publicist …
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4 Winners of Flower Power Daily’s Monthly Fab Florists Series
Here are some gorge shots of the winners of the Fab Florists Friday series this past month. As you know, we realize that there are floral artists who may not get the splashes of publicity like others but are worth knowing and visiting. We are not only curators of all things beautiful here but consider …
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RIP: Louise Glück, Nobel Prize Winner “The Wild Iris” Passes at 80
By Jill Brooke Louise Glück, who often writes poems about our beloved flowers, has died of cancer at 80. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Of her 12 books, her most famous is called “The Wild Iris,” where there are three voices: those of flowers speaking to humans, humans speaking to God, and …
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Marigolds Deserve More Respect: October’s Flower is Both Reliable and Beautiful!
By Jill Brooke My favorite garden flower is the marigold – the annual that keeps on giving. It’s also the flower of October. Not only is it easy to plant, but it blooms in vibrant colors for spring, summer and fall. These do-gooders produce waves of yellow, copper, tangerine orange and rust-tipped golden colors that …
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Heading Towards Extinction? Royal Botanic Study Cites These Flowers
By Jill Brooke Don’t we love dedicated gardeners and researchers who realize that plants, flowers and seeds hold the keys to our history and future? An unprecedented international collaboration organized by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to show how people are currently using plants and fungi, what useful properties are being neglected, and what is …
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Sag Flower Farm is Couple’s Fun Reinvention Plan
By Jill Brooke Sometimes, you just have to go for it. Last year, right before the pandemic hit, Lauren and Tyler Borenstein bought a piece of land on a historic tract in the Hamptons of New York and started planting premium organic dahlias in all shapes and forms. Now the former potato field, named Sagaponack …
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Get Your Floral Mojo! Celebrate International Coffee Day
By Jill Brooke Let’s get our mojo! It’s International Coffee Day and all of us collectively will be pouring about 1.4 billion cups of coffee today. Originally from Ethiopia in 700 AD, it became popular after a herd of goats started acting strangely as if they were dancing. Their owner Kaldi concluded the cause …
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Prickly Beauties: 7 Flowering Cacti Easy To Love
By Sherry Dean Curreri For many years, I have been photographing and researching cactus flowers in South California. Why am I so fascinated by cacti? They are so self-reliant, unique, strong and come in so many varieties – about 2000 plants bearing interesting blossoms. And yes, they can be prickly and dangerous if not careful. …
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Netflix’ “Enola Holmes” Charms Using Flowers As Clues
By Jill Brooke When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes in 1887, little did he know how popular the fictional detective would become, Now Netflix just released “Enola Holmes” about a younger sister we never knew he had. Turns out that the language of flowers plays a BIG role in the new series which …
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Fall Gardening Is Booming: What to Plant Now for a Thriving Garden
By Jill Brooke Nature has pressed the pause button. As a result of people spending so much time at home, millions of us have started to take a keener interest in what’s outside our doors. It’s as though people can finally appreciate artist Georgia O’Keefe’s prescient words: “Most people rush around so, they have no …
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