tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86528879489556683622024-02-18T22:55:04.175-08:00Windowsill ArrangingCelebrating Nature on the WindowsillNancy Ross Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811322181801980863noreply@blogger.comBlogger1401125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652887948955668362.post-60525673941503495112020-04-02T14:43:00.000-07:002020-04-02T14:43:03.321-07:00Daffodils and EuphorbiaHello spring! Here are some daffodils (confusingly named 'Geranium') combined with foliage from a house plant (begonia) and chartreuse Euphorbia flowers. I particularly love the Euphorbia flowers, from plants Lauren Thompson gave me.<br />
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Nancy Ross Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811322181801980863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652887948955668362.post-48440761345065635992020-02-28T06:58:00.001-08:002020-02-28T06:58:56.117-08:00violas in new vasesCan't tell you how much I love these new vases. Like everything about them: their color, their size, their shape. Thank you Marty Ross! Now I want to paint my whole house this lichen green.<br />
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Nancy Ross Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811322181801980863noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652887948955668362.post-47960674702439666532020-02-28T06:58:00.000-08:002020-02-28T06:58:05.004-08:00daffodils and peace lily <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In February, it's harder to find good, fresh foliage than it is to find daffodils, so after I picked these I started trolling for foliage to combine them with. Decided to harvest both flowers and foliage from a houseplant.<br />
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Nancy Ross Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811322181801980863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652887948955668362.post-8086802211672438562019-12-22T05:47:00.002-08:002019-12-22T05:47:40.638-08:00oddball colors I'm crazy about these colors, because they aren't your usual Christmas colors. Apricot-colored vases filled with red, yellow, and orange peppers on red felt. The foliage is fetterbush.<br />
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Nancy Ross Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811322181801980863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652887948955668362.post-14282591349911630982019-09-24T12:20:00.001-07:002019-09-24T12:20:49.010-07:00strange september leftoversBrought these green monkey balls and tomato red carnations home with me from workshop at Shrine Mont. They're now over two weeks old and still looking great on the windowsill.<br />
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Nancy Ross Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811322181801980863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652887948955668362.post-11466762486444770002018-10-28T12:18:00.003-07:002018-10-28T12:19:16.183-07:00Dogwood with bookBeautiful book with beautiful dogwood leaves. The leaves were even more beautiful two days ago, but my camera wasn't working then!<br />
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These things (sunflower head, tomatoes) landed in my kitchen at the same time, and somehow wound up in a windowsill arrangement together. The sunflower head doesn't have any petals, but,with its dramatic green bracts, it was too pretty to throw away. I put it in the vase facing straight up, which made sort of a nest for the tomatoes. </div>
<br />Nancy Ross Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811322181801980863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652887948955668362.post-45340101526248127782018-08-03T06:47:00.001-07:002018-08-03T06:47:14.695-07:00Michigan windowsill<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Horsetail (<i>Equisetum</i>) collected from roadside in Montague, Michigan. Smaller than any <i>Equisetum </i>I've encountered before. Nancy Ross Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811322181801980863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652887948955668362.post-59225327298522264742018-06-21T06:10:00.000-07:002018-06-21T06:10:24.868-07:00white anemones<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Now I know why brides love these white anemones with black centers so much: I can't take my eyes off of them. And they seem to be looking back at me! These are leftover from wedding flowers Kate and I did last weekend. I was worried about how staunch they would be, but one of these vases ran out of water and the anemone didn't wilt even then. Thank you Roy Houff for getting them to us in such good shape!</span><br />
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<br />Nancy Ross Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811322181801980863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652887948955668362.post-70559202845932830872018-04-09T09:31:00.001-07:002018-04-09T09:31:36.343-07:00demitasse cup with Pieris japonica<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This pretty little cup was a recent gift from a friend who is downsizing. I'm downsizing, too, but I couldn't refuse these! So sweet. And one little twig of <i>Pieris japonica </i>(Andromeda) looks so comfortable perched inside. Nancy Ross Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811322181801980863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652887948955668362.post-87733664156161844372018-02-05T08:09:00.001-08:002018-02-05T08:12:15.515-08:00long-lasting BerziliaThis (with the exception of the pear) is what's been sitting on my windowsill since January 6. The plant material in the terracotta vases is Berzilia, something leftover from an event that required florist flowers. I ordered one bunch of Berzilia just because I wanted to see what it looked like. This isn't the gray-flowering variety that's all over Pinterest and every bride in North America now seems to want. Its flowers (which look more berry-like than they do flower-like) are reddish to maroonish and its foliage (which resembles princess pine) is a great olive green. I'm crazy about it and would order it again in a heartbeat, but I may not need to; it seems to last forever!<br />
P.S. The jar of pickled peppadews were a Christmas gift from Rosanne and Jerry Shalf--a blast of red that has also been an unflagging spirit-lifter this winter. I wouldn't dare eat them I'm enjoying looking at them so much!<br />
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Nancy Ross Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811322181801980863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652887948955668362.post-208203482989257632017-11-06T11:54:00.000-08:002017-11-06T11:54:14.620-08:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can barely see this because of all the "commotion"--ladder, fence, screen, etc.-- in the photo background, but this is one of the most satisfying arrangements I've done in a long time. The container is a triangular tube-ish thing with three holes in the top. I dropped some nasturtium flowers into it just to hold them until I found a different vase, but I loved the way they fell almost laterally across the top of the vase--still with their stems in water. What I like about his so much is how how clearly you can see the shapes and colors of the flowers. There's a tiny sprig of tomatillo foliage in this, too. </span><br />
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Nancy Ross Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811322181801980863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652887948955668362.post-90027700676265853042017-08-14T13:29:00.000-07:002017-08-14T13:29:28.725-07:00tupelo leaf and sugar maple seedsThis isn't on a windowsill, but it's my little arrangement for today. I was trying, in as few strokes as possible, to capture what was going on outside (sort of a visual haiku). On my napkin are three sets of winged sugar maple seeds and one brilliant red tupelo leaf. It sounded like a shooting range on my side porch this afternoon, because the falling sugar maple seeds were hitting the tin roof and the tin magnified the sound of their strikes like a drum! Crazy that something so small could make such a racket!<br />
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Nancy Ross Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811322181801980863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652887948955668362.post-48520482499396162332017-07-28T14:37:00.000-07:002017-07-28T14:37:00.925-07:00Japanese lanternsIt's been so long since I've posted a windowsill arrangement, I've almost forgotten how! Too busy "putting up" vegetables and drying things like this: Japanese lanterns. I love this simple little "arrangement" of a single, short Japanese lantern stem, but the reality of my life right now is better depicted in the second photo: a house full of long Japanese lantern stems waiting to be stripped of leaves and hung all over the house to dry. They are hanging from chair backs and floor lamps and doorknobs! All beautiful but a little overwhelming.<br />
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Nancy Ross Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811322181801980863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652887948955668362.post-17730442896290167972017-06-04T15:04:00.004-07:002017-06-04T15:04:55.035-07:00beargrass and blue tansy<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Ok, this is wacky, but I love it because of the "ingredients." First came the beargrass. Kate and I ordered it for a big event in Richmond, but it came in "bad." Beargrass never comes in "bad" (it's nearly indestructible), but this batch really was half dead and smelly when it arrived. So it wound up in my brush pile. However: when I encountered it there days later, it looked pretty good! Must have benefited from the fresh air. So I gathered up a bunch of it, twisted it into </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">a loop and combined it with the next pretty thing I encountered on my way to the house--blue tansy or Phacelia tanicitifolia. This cover crop (which was growing in my vegetable garden) is absolutely gorgeous, and, miraculously, also makes a great cut flower. Learned about it from Betsy Trice, who gave me some seeds. It's an early, cool season plant (today I was pulling it out and gathering seed), but, boy, what a discovery (via Betsy) it is!</span><br />
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<br />Nancy Ross Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811322181801980863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652887948955668362.post-19056919455365883702017-05-11T10:27:00.002-07:002017-05-11T10:27:54.757-07:00one mahonia leafThe color of old mahonia leaves has been spectacular this spring. I harvested lots of them for recent arrangements (not an easy task, given how prickly they are), but these two leaflets got special treatment because they were so very red. I cut a slit in the top of the lemon before wedging them in. This "arrangement" is over a week old and hasn't changed a bit, A mahonia leaf might fade a bit over time, but it couldn't wilt if it tried. <br />
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Marion David gave me the sweet little vase (which she made).<br />
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<br />Nancy Ross Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811322181801980863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652887948955668362.post-24103941413158646032017-05-03T11:51:00.003-07:002017-05-03T11:51:34.005-07:00Crossvine (Bignonia) LOVE this native vine. Flowers are sort of terra-cotta colored and hang in beautiful clusters. They look like trumpet vine, but aren't. This is crossvine, or <i>Bignonia</i>, which blooms in spring (as opposed to trumpet vine, a woodier vine, which blooms in summer). I've used crossvine flowers in half a dozen ways today--in big and small arrangements--but my favorite, naturally, is this windowsill-sized arrangement. It's just one little leftover cluster of flowers in a small black vase (with a snippet of borage behind to help hold it up). I love the way the flowers show up against the black vase. <br />
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