Our first annual memorial day work weekend at Worlds End.I am moved beyond words by the enthusiasm, strength and stamina of this crew. Thanks to them we have the start of an elderberry orchard, an en...
week in review;fell in love with Sonoma county and its roses. cessna flight to farm.did some farm stuff.back to city. made weddings.hoarded iris.teaching.wounded.living off coffee and antibioti...
Whenia not make a da weddings i a make a da emailings and tzen i a make a da dinner and opening da wine and talk about da soil structureWhenia not make a da weddings or talk about da soil structure i...
Happy SaturdayThe girls are downstairs in the studio getting wedding stuff together, I am taking a minute to sit down and collect myself.This morning I miss my Nea, crazy crazy girl. These pictures a...
Im sorry Ive been slow with updates. I write too many things in my mind. They get built up too much like jokes that are not really funny, and then I put off actually writing anything down...
I am alive and well and have been living in Esperance with small internet connection.Things have been different than I expected, and I am working to adjust.We need a tractor.
The flowers are too good to be true right now. Crabapple blossoms, azalea, cherry - cha-cha, tango, foxtrot! Its a true dance of the senses. This wedding was last weekend at the Brooklyn Botanical Ga...
If you want to know, Im working late alone upstairs in the office that sits over our studio. A studio that I once thought was large. Its not anymore. Tonight its full of flowers for tomorrows wedding...
My favorite spring bride, Sara, got married to her love Matthew at the Metropolitan building last month. Their wedding was such a joy to work on, they were easy going, full of life and hilarious to b...
We had a nice Easter this year. Ive always secretly wanted to be Jewish though. Sarah is a common Jewish name, after all. So this holiest of christian holiday is dampened by my lust for Sedars and re...
Picked two winners this week, one randomly [Caroline lucky number 21, email me], the other perhaps not so randomly. Its my circus and I can do whatever I want I suppose.Also forgot I had these to sho...
The photo above has little to do and everything to do with all the farms Ive been visiting lately. Farm after farm after farm. Flower farms, sheep farms, clean farms, messy farms. The only way for me...
At the farm these past few days; the world there feels like it is expanding so fast - more on that soon.Thank you for your amazing feedback on the workday. Some of you wondered if it was an invitatio...
Some photos from last week at Worlds End. Things are bananas there. If I thought I was in tune with the seasons before, I had no idea. My sensitivity has been increased a hundred fold. I have to make...
working outside my normal color scheme, experimenting with some stems from a new clematis grower. yes, the word clematis sounds like a venereal disease to most of us. cant wait to see what kinds of s...
This needs to be split in two parts; Inside and Outside.Ill start with inside, since the outside part has to do with hellebores, and I feel you may be sick of them at the moment, or at least reading ...
We had the pleasure of assisting floral god Thierry Boutemy and his crew at an installation to end all floral installations last week. The man is beyond. And his crew, a french speaking fun bunch - s...
10:42 pmlistening to eric talk to his sister.he mentions to her that were planning on getting another dog.he says "we need another farm dog, a better working dog. but Sarah also wants an old pome...
couldnt resist.
thursday 10:01 ambeen drinking coffee in my chair by the window, made breakfast (instead of just taking a long glug from the keifer jug at quarter to 6...) looking at all of your beautiful flower blo...
There are a lot of things going on in Saipua land lately, today is all about weddings -- its the first day of our Weddings 101 Workshop (internally dubbed "weekend warrior") and Im surrounded...
flowers are on fire right now. everyone should get married in March.magnolia, hellebores, ranunculus, jasmine, love-lies-bleeding.i like fewer things in arrangements lately.also I wrote about our vir...
keep on moving dont stop.
We just got back into town last night after a wild ride through the southern tier in pursuit of hellebores. Nicolette and I..I am still processing the weekend. In so many ways it was what we jokingly...
Yesterday we had a busy studio day, my friend Sarah was over learning about flowers, helping us with the arrangements for the John Chamberlain opening at the Guggenheim. I always love having lots of ...
Got the evening alone! Well alone except for two dogs, one of whom has a flatulence problem. Fortunately for me, I got a stuffy nose and cant smell anything. Ive been working a lot on my photography ...
I wanted to make something on Wednesday but didnt have anything around the studio. I wanted to make something beautiful and take pictures of it; an exercise that always makes me feel good. I was tire...
Because we can, and because something very lovely happened on Tuesday that made me remember why we make flowers in the first place. Not sure how long well be able to keep it up once wedding season st...
Dare I say Manhattan is the new Brooklyn?There is so much good coffee, so many high heels - so many well-heeled. Standing in line at LaColombe on Lafayette yesterday I felt underdressed so hard I blu...
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