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If you’re upstate this summer, please see my installation of 40 roses at D-Day Studio RE-LEAF BOTANICAL SHOW 60 Tinker Street Woodstock, NY . Here are just a few: 1. Rosa ‘Duchesse de Brabant’ 2. Rosa ‘Gilbert Nabonnand&rsquo I lived in SoHo when I first came to New York in 1988. The view of The neighborhood as my taxi drove down Thompson Street reminded me of scenes from Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America - laundry lines between buildings, children playing In the last few years I had the pleasure of seeing the garden in Rohuna perform its annual spring symphony, a riot of colors ringing every note in the musical scale, each one distinct in itself but still manages to blend into harmony with all the oth Narcissus bulbocodium (from the hillside of Rohuna) rendered in paper, inspired by Mary Delany . . . #homagetomarydelany #papermosiack #paperflowers #flowercollage #botanicalart #plantlove #narcissusbulbocodium The native dogwoods (Cornus florida) are at the end of their blooming, but for weeks they have been gracing the skyline of New York City with their generous blossoms like a storm of butterflies fluttering in the air. As Dominique Browning quoted her The Spanish edition of Umberto Pasti’s lyrical recounting of his adventures in Rohuna, with one of my favorite photos on the cover. This image not only encapsulates the wild beauty of Rohuna — I love the way the vigorous Rosa ‘Senat These days when the world is on pause I am often reminded of these words from the bishop in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables: “a little garden in which to walk, and immensity in which to dream. At o e’s feet that which can be cul A sales receipt from Roman Egypt records a request for 4000 roses for a wedding in the second century. These roses from Grace Rose Farm had been destined for weddings that have now been put on hold. Instead, I am the grateful and happy recipient of t I♥️NY—Lamprocapnos spectabilis. . . . #lamprocapnosspectabilis #bleedingheart #i❤️NY #springflowers #floralphotography #isolationcreation #newyorkstrong #artinthetimeofcovid19 Hommage to Mary Delany — Narcissus actaea. One of the many projects to which I now have the time to devote. . . . #hommagetomarydelany #narcissusactaea #isolationcreation #papercollage #botanicalart #springflowers #artinthetimeofcovid #quaranti Listening to a podcast with one of my favorite writers, Pico Iyer, I was struck by a Japanese saying that life is “a joyful participation in a world of sorrows,” which perfectly describes how I feel at this moment. When I went out for a w April has been the cruellest month in our city but the procession of spring carries on unimpeded. Every garden in my Brooklyn neighborhood has turned into a medieval tapestry — checkered-coated fritillaries commingling with blushing lady tulips For the past week, volunteers have been harvesting thousands of daffodils at Untermeyer Garden to deliver to hospitals as gifts to healthcare workers. Today florist Sylvia Lukach did an installation of daffodils at the Temple of Love in honor of the Spring is making its way through the garden even as the death toll in New York reaches another high the second day in a row. New blooms greet me each morning as surely as the somber numbers come at the end of each day. Behind the hard cold numbers is Repost from @jardinmajorellemarrakech For the next five days, I’ll be posting images from my visit to Jardin Majorelle last December. As Madison Cox wrote so thoughtfully, « this verdant pocket—set within an ever-expanding cit The news this morning was quite grim for New York City, but as I looked outside, spring has never looked more beautiful. The magnolias are outdoing themselves, and my hellebores are blooming as they never had before, as if they knew I needed cheering “Spring is a softness, a balm on bones. There is something creamy about it, a yellowness, as if the blue of winter had been sent back into the earth to think again.” Adam Nicholson. First day of spring and New Yorkers have been officially Yellow Lady Banks rose (Rosa banksiae ‘Lutea’) was one of my father’s favorite roses and the only one to bloom for him during his last days. It’s a rose cultivated in Chinese gardens for hundreds of years before being brought After a half-hearted winter, the weather has turned to spring and the last few days have brought sunshine and warmth to keep our spirits up in these trying times. My tiny garden shrugged off its drab winter coat and tried on some colors in preparatio For two weeks I’ve been watching these ranunculus as they unfurl their petals, taking on different colors and shapes every day, as if they’ve been trying on different outfits — crinkled petticoats and ruffled skirts — for a ba