by user1 | Jan 5, 2023 | Jane's Adventures
January 2023 is here, and I am thinking back on a very fun project from the past holiday season. Longwood Gardens invited its Continuing Education Floral Design instructors to stage floral designs in the conservatory’s Music Room display. My photographer friend, Kate...
by user1 | Dec 18, 2022 | Jane's Adventures
Photographs by Kate Fahey My December began the holiday season with a visit from the Dallas Garden Club to the Merion Cricket Club in Haverford, Pennsylvania, for a tour of the historic building and a floral design celebration to usher in the 2022 Christmas season....
by user1 | Nov 13, 2022 | Jane's Adventures
Thanksgiving begins the winter holiday season and celebrates the harvest. Ain November, I get great pleasure from the rust, orange, and scarlet colors of the foliage and flowers that create the Thanksgiving holiday mood. Deep rust chrysanthemum combine with lighter...
by user1 | Oct 13, 2022 | Jane's Adventures
Straw is the waste product of wheat and most often used to for animal bedding and to add fiber, but not nutrition to animal food. It makes an excellent mulch for the garden and has many uses for decoration, especially in the fall. Straw sickles make an interesting...
by user1 | Sep 23, 2022 | Jane's Adventures
Moving into Autumn This month I am teaching two classes at Longwood Gardens. They are the first “in-person” classes for me since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020. Both classes focus on locally grown fall flowers from The Farm at Oxford and mechanics to...
by user1 | Aug 29, 2022 | Jane's Adventures
On August 4 the Organization of Floral Art Designers opened their 2022 annual symposium in San Francisco CA. Five designers presented demonstrations and workshops and OFAD members staged cutting edge designs throughout the hotel. You can find more about Art Nouveau...
