gardenrooms

Stone Cold Natural

So loved the stone in two of these images and the nature of them in all.  old Cote Sud, photographers~

Bernard  Touillon and Henri Del Olmo. 

Domino Gardens

More Gardens from Domino. Photography by Fritz Von Der Schul, Richard Felber and Jonathan Buckley. 

Cherries For Your Valentine

Love this flower shop for anything, but especially Valentine's Day. cherriesflowers 

Nature Inside

When I first saw this home & garden in Cote Sud magazine, I couldn't stop looking at it. The textures and colors are wonderful to me, I hope you enjoy them too. Have a great weekend!

Gardening Workshops

Plant it Earth has a wonderful space up stairs in their store that they kindly rent to me on Saturday's. I teach gardening workshops for children there. Here are a few photos of a class. For more information please leave me a comment or email me, thanks :)

The Art of Traditional Chinese Flower Arranging

Happy Chinese New Year

Tang Dynasty 618-906

The custom of using shallow containers to form landscape 

images by means of plant arrangement's was described in a poem by Ou-Yang Chan- b.765

Ode to a Spring Dish

Beautiful women of leisure

Use pan and tray as the Earth

In composing flowers into a precious object 

[The arrangement's] forest is graceful

Blossoms compete in budding forth

Each plant, each leaf

Achieves the spirit of Nature.

Over the years Flowers eventually became recognized as the very symbol of beauty. 

True beginnings in the 6th dynasties period.

Yuan Hung Tao 1562-1610

"Flowers vitality arises from a sort of adroit energy existing between heaven and earth".

This is what the Ching Dynasty was referring to when Fung Shih-Shu 1692-1751 said

"Blue Mountains, elegant trees

Lively water, broad stones

Create their own unique existence 

Outside this Heaven and Earth".

from a book by Youngchuan Huang

A Bird's House

Loved these houses for bird's in a California garden. . .

photographer~ John Hanford