green rose--again

Well, it's still around--a green rose I first used in a windowsill arrangement on Feb. 5! Here it is again, this time paired with some aucuba and alstromeria foliage.

common mullein in contemporary vase

This is something I thought I had posted earlier in the week. Must have forgotten to do it. It's just two common mullein leaves collected from a roadside plant tucked into the opening little contemporary vase. The grey,wooley leaves provide a nice contrast to the metallic finish of the vase. LOVE the vase! Not sure this is the best way to use it, but it's one way.

rosebud and pussy willow--as they landed

I love this because I didn't arrange it--it just happened. Because Kate and I held an arranging workshop this week, hundreds of dollars of florist flowers passed through my house, but by this morning, this was all I had--a few tiny pussy willow twigs I couldn't throw away because they had rooted and a tiny pink rosebud that landed in the same spice jar. I shuffled them not at all--just left them the way they were and when the light hit them this morning, they looked so pretty. See the reflections of the rosebud in the window?

air plant with catalog in jar

Here's the air plant I hung from a ball jar with a catalog in it. It would take me FOREVER. to explain how these materials landed together!!

assorted stuff

I pushed all this material to the side today, so that I could display an "air plant on jar with catalog in it" today. When I looked at the result, however, I liked this stuff  I'd pushed to the side better.

green rose in wine glass

I bought some leftover green roses at a meeting yesterday (great price from Potomac wholesale), and I'm hoping they'll stay alive until next week so I can use them at an Arranger's Market workshop. As I was conditioning them, though, one flower broke off, so I started looking for a way to display it. This was my best shot.

poinsettia on pedestal

I'm still harvesting flowers from my Christmas poinsettias, because there is little else of color blooming inside our out. The poinsettia flower is in a water tube with a great, curving piece of holly fern. You can't see it in the photo, but the underside of the holly leaf shows, and it's covered with dark reddish sori--clusters of spore cases.