Winter Camellias

Even though we don't get much of a winter here on the central coast, it is still amazing to watch these winter bloomers take over the garden. The camellia bushes/trees are dripping with heavy camellias and buds that are reminiscent of peonies!

In Love with Hellebore

Hellebore arrangment

Hellebores are blooming in winter right now along the central and northern California coasts! These came from an estate woodland garden in Atherton, CA

Hellebore and Chinese Fringe Flower foliage

To a Happy New Year!

Dramatic arrangement for the new 2013 year. A great glass mosaic vase allowed me to keep it contemporary and in balance. I repeated clusters of twos to keep the arrangement simple and clean.

Cymbidium orchid, ginger, and coleus

Keep the tropical/contemporary theme with umbrella plant, green callas, coleus, ginger, and cymbidium

Wildflower Holidays

Wildflower arrangement

Wildflower arrangement with baby pink spray roses

Lantana

Sweet Pea shrub (Polygala dalmaisiana)

Spray roses, eucalyptus, lilies, and lemon leaf

Protea, Queen Anne's Lace, lilies, baby roses

Baby roses and eucalyptus

Fountain grass, baby roses, and aster

All sorts of wildflowers and herbs such as lavender, rosemary, geraniums, fountain grass, mexican sage, and a spider mum

Wildflower arrangement with cape plumbago, hypericum, Queen Anne's lace, lavender, and grevillea

Merry Christmas

Strawberries & Cream

Visions of Grandeur

Orange Spice

Peppermint

California Christmas tablescape

We are celebrating our Christmas with poinsettias, roses, berries--and of course, cacti for a real California Christmas!

Greet the Winter!

Have a Happy Winter!

Blue Cypress, berries, lily grass, fir, leopard ribbon

Christmas Boutonnieres

Let's get into the season with some cute little boutonnieres for the Catholic Boys Choir at Old Mission Church, SLO.

Small Boutonniere with white roses, hypericum, and variegated geranium foliage

Small boutonniere with white rose, hypericum berries, and myrtle