The re-enchantment of flowers

I've been too busy to post anything lately, but here is a blogpost about me on Martha Stewart Weddings website.

A Pattern of Marks Entering My Own Stillness

"I too liked to sit unfettered in a room of my own, emptied of all the past, nothing inside, nothing around, nothing but a voice bundled in paper, a pattern of marks entering my own stillness."

Romesh Gunesekera, Reef

This is just about all I want right now. Flowers and words. And time to decipher them, to listen to all these voices "bundled in paper."

Summer in our garden

Now that summer is here, the Hydrangea macrophylla normalis and Filipendula purpurea are poised to bloom any day now. We also have the first few cherry tomatoes of the season, still green but promising. I added a white Astilbe arendsii to mix in with the pink and red ones and can't wait to see them bloom.

A Spring Day At Last

A glorious spring day at last. I planted  dicentra and astilbe in our garden. The hellebores and ferns are waiting to be planted another day.

Easter Sunday

Spring blooms in Park Slope on Easter Sunday

Flowering dogwood

The blossoms on the dogwood tree are about to burst open. For a week, they will light up their corner of the garden with their cheerful pink color. Every year I wait for this moment.

Signs of Spring

Crocus, daffodils and snow drops in bloom at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden today.