artichokes at parkside

picking flowers in victoria, bc

It's been an absolute pleasure to work with Clare at Clare Day Flowers in Victoria, British Colombia this past week. We picked flowers both from her property-Red Damsel Farm-and from another herb farm, and even a few wild apple branches along a walking trail. In short, so different from my wholesale-centric life in Austin. Everywhere you look in the Pacific Northwest things are growing and blooming this time of year.

It's been refreshingly misty a lot of the days, but I'm back to the Texas heat tomorrow. You can see some of my other Instagram images from the trip on my Copygram page.

brooklyn

Suzi, Alina and I have had a spectacular time in Brooklyn and NYC. Denise was a wonderful collaborator and couldn't have been sweeter. I can't wait to see the images of our flowers that Suzi shot...

peach peonies

I had to buy them, so gorgeously striped and speckled with magenta... Luckily a friend stopped by and I was able to pawn them off on her.

blue, green, purple, honey and white flowers

Some soothing blue and green flowers for the Blanton's Human Touch event. Still haven't gotten over that beautiful blue wall.

sunflowers and craspedia

italian style flowers

Italy, transported to a deer farm in Texas? Artichokes as big as my head, sgraffito eggplant, olive foliage and clematis made it feel like a gorgeous, but hot, day in Italy. And passionvine from outside my vet's office (they owe me).