Dutch irises have been dancing around our studio this week. These purple-hued ballerinas, twirling and stretching, with demi-pliés, piroue...

The snapdragons came back this summer.   Normally they’re cool weather flowers that say hello in the spring, on long str...

Hostas reign in our garden.  Their lavish leaves of green create an oasis for the eyes during the hot summer months. Sporting colors of ...

How to enjoy life: Slip into a sparkly new pair of sandals. It doesn’t matter if your polish matches. Or, if it...

It’s the dead of winter. Flower beds are forlorn and forgotten, trees are stripped to skeleton sticks and the landscape is zipped up in a...

“ There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and leaving it behind them when they go. ” Frederick Wil...

“But someone is coming soon who is greater than I am—so much greater that I’m not worthy to carry his sandals.” Matthew 3:11

Yesterday Rebecca was driving in the car with Alexa, her 22 month old daughter. Alexa is the tiniest little fan of the Velvet...

Have you ever anticipated a gift before it arrived? Counted the days until you could open and enjoy it? That’s how we feel e...

This waterfall in a private garden on Roanoke Island was bubbling, rippling and pouring life-giving, thirst-quenching water all over th...

The seven foot tall swamp flowers in our summer garden are bent over now. All the way to the ground. Along with the other flowers in th...

Each morning in my summer garden a series of squash blossoms unfurl and show off their bright little faces. They are a fleeting show and by ...

A packet of zinnia seeds has slept quietly in my kitchen drawer for almost two years. Given to me by my friend, Sallie, they weren’t ent...