Fresh-cut, home-grown flowers transform a house into a home! Cutting armfuls of flowers you grew, and then making arrangements, drying them or giving them away is a true country pleasure. For years, I resisted harvesting flowers from my gardens, afraid I would ruin the wonderful display. The perfect solution was to start a cutting garden.
This [...]

Monterey cypress
Cupressus macrocarpa Hartw.                                     
Cypress family (Cupressaceae)
Post-Cook introduction
Medium-sized to large introduced aromatic evergreen
tree with small scalelike leaves. Trunk straight, to 110 ft
(34 m) high and commonly 21⁄2 ft (0.8 m) in diameter,
with conical or spreading crown. Bark dark gray, rough,
thick, furrowed into flat ridges. Inner bark light brown
with outer dark brown layer, slightly bitter, resinous.
Twigs [...]

Description: “Medium-sized tree (sometimes very large in cultivation), pyramidal at first, with broad crown when mature. Bark thick, reddish brown beneath, often becoming whitish on surface. Adult foliage in dense, dark green masses, aromatic when bruised; branchlets systems not flattened. 1-3-year shoots terete, reddish brown, with leaves appressed except [...]

Exquisitely Detailed, Amazingly Lifelike
If you love flowers and you’re looking for a decorative element that fuses high fashion and high color, silk orchids from SilkFlowers.com are a wonderful addition to any home. Our silk orchids feature exacting attention to detail and are incredibly lifelike. And there are many ways to bring the beauty of silk [...]

Having plants in your home can be a great way to add life and nature to every room and decor style. However, caring for and maintaining those plants can be expensive and time consuming. With a silk plant, you not only get the beauty of a live plant, but you don’t have to worry about [...]

When buying silk flowers, I like to look for the best quality and price available.  Although when an item is designed by artisans, one knows it is a labor of love.  So when [...]