Author: Jill Brooke
A Joyful Yayoi Kusama Exhibit to Arrive in 2020 at the NYBG
Starting next spring, visitors to the New York Botanical Garden will have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to experience Yayoi Kusama’s first large-scale exploration of her life-long engagement with nature. The interactive exhibition, which begins May 2 and closes on November 1, 2020, will include her early botanical drawings and soft sculptures, work from her experimental years …
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The Queen Announces That, Age 93, She Can Still …
The National Institute of Agricultural Botany near Cambridge, England, an international center for plant science, crop evaluation and agronomy, was celebrating its 100th anniversary, and Queen Elizabeth, 93, had been invited to stand by for a ceremonial tree planting. The Queen, wearing a pink hat, pink coat and a white dress with pink fritillaries, was having …
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Photo of Rescue Dog Merlin Wins Kennel Club UK Top Prize
The award was to the photographer and not the dog. But Denise Czichocki from Switzerland captured a winning, soulful look in Merlin, above, to win top prize in the Dog Photographer of the Year competition, sponsored by the Kennel Club in the U.K., beating out 7,000 competitors. “Dreaming Merlin” is a portrait of a 14 …
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Summer Wardrobe Essentials: The Floral Item Everyone Needs
By Nancy C. Molina How do men survive without a handbag? Granted they have pockets, and what designer these days dare make a dress, or ladies’ trousers, without pockets I want to know! But still, cell phones, chargers, lipstick, moisteners, a notebook, pens, mints, a barrette, sunglasses, tissues, an extra pair of earrings. Where are …
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Carlo Bermudez – The Flower and Event Empresario of Floresta
In Spanish the word for “entrepreneur” (empresario) is also the word for “businessman,” “manager,” “showman,” and “promoter.” Those words only begin to define Juan Carlo Bermudez, the empresario of the event-and floral-design business Floresta or, as it is shown on its web site [ fLo rE sta ]. Design writers will remember when architects …
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Ten Fabulous Hotel Flower Arrangements From Around the Globe
By Joelle Wyser-Pratte Pablo Neruda once wrote, “Take it all back. Life is boring, except for flowers, sunshine, and your perfect legs.” While we can’t always guarantee a day of sunshine, nor a lover who admires our legs as perfect, we can always find flowers. And beautiful ones at that, even on the darkest days, …
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Flower of the Day, Cleome Spider Flower: Plant Just Once
Spider Flower, Bee plant, cleome. This tall flowering plant is like the gawky girl that doesn’t get asked to dance in junior high school, but becomes a model when she’s 16. The cleome doesn’t look like much in a nursery. Well, actually, it does look like a baby marijuana plant. Cleome, below top, are often …
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Discover Our Founding Fathers’ Favorite Flowers
By Linda Lee In honor of July 4th, and Presidents Day, we thought of looking at the Founding Fathers and how they spent time in their gardens. Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Alexander Hamilton were farmers, as were most men of their time – even if they became soldiers, lawyers and statesmen. Benjamin Franklin, seated …
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Medicine from Flowering Plants: What You Need to Know
By Linda Lee Flowering plants and medicine: scientists are discovering new connections all the time. In some cases, they prove what ancient people already knew. Poppies have been a source of pain relief for centuries. The Egyptians chewed poppy seeds to reduce pain, and the seeds of Papaver somniferum before the poppy is ripe do …
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Capturing Baby’s First Year with Flowers: A Keepsake Calendar to Cherish Forever
By Jill Brooke When Vanessa Khachane’s daughter River was born, she wanted to document all her baby’s milestones in a memorable way. As with many first time mothers, she surfed the web for ideas. Aha. She saw pictures of flowers used sculpturally to spell out each month and decided that was the perfect option for …
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