The spring here in the Mid-Atlantic has been sort of like days of yore, temperate days and no outrageous temperature drops or spikes. Perennials and bulbs have started showing their stuff. We have waited a very long time for Fritillaria bulbs of our own and while their show hasn’t been outstanding, we have managed to…

Recently, I was gifted a lovely book on Ikebana and though there are several Ikebana books in my gardening and floral library, this gem of a book is different. It is a vintage primer with concise directions on how to arrange Moribana, Heika and Seika style arrangements. There are 14 or so arrangement lessons, clearly…

We adore vintage containers and flower frogs so we collect them and use them for all our arrangements. Be assured when you order a Flora Jones arrangement, you not only get uniqueness in the flower content, you also get a neat-o container to boot. Most of our containers are borrowed by our customers while the…

Fall seems to have arrived, our most favorite time of the year. We have been in a mad dash to get tender plants out of the ground and now our garage looks like a greenhouse, though we don’t mind the greenhouse look at all. The pumpkin/gourd collection has been situated at the front of the…