Our sprinkle of snow yesterday is nothing compared to the four feet of snow they got in South Dakota two weeks ago. The drifts made it higher. This arrangement has the air (thistle) the snow (poms) and the white stalks in a silver blue and muted green vase. It retails for $20.

This Asiatic Lily is called Fango. Its color, red, is lighter on the red spectrum scale but blends nicely with the deeper reds of Freedom and Black Magic roses.

Such a dilemna.  How to decorate the mantle for the holidays.  Here is a vase full of heather precariously sitting at the edge.  There is approximately 16 inches high to the speaker and 16 inches wide from the TV.  We could play “Chesnuts roasting on the open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose, Yuletides …” to create a backround ambience

with the surround sound.  We could play Monday Night, Thursday Night and all day Sunday Night football.  In between, the commercials would give us that holiday cheer.  Grinchly speaking that’s all we have this year.

Moses supposes his toses are roses but Moses supposes erroneously… today Moses would choose the Mini Mighty Carn for his toes. They won’t wilt and last forever. Further south on the African Continent according to the Floraculture International Magazine, Kenya grows carnations. They use to be the number one exported flower but now fall to number three behind roses and hypericum berries. Historically speaking bets on Moses would like a pair of Danskos.

There are perhaps two schools of thought - to take the leaves off of the stalk or leave them on. Our thought is to keep those leaves that are above water on. They help secure the other flowers and while for instance rose leaves aren’t the prettiest they serve the purpose of a prop.

This arrangement is circled by salal leaves, very proficient at making a finished look at an economical price.

See YouTube CarlisleFlowers.net for live. Mr. Potato Head has red carnation hair plugs. They are looking pretty good. He has a pencil thin mustache and his eyes are very bright. Mrs. Potato Head has a jaunty hair style, feminine and curly. Her eyes are hiding behind some sunbeam sunglasses. Her lips are the same

color as Mr. Their skin is the leathery insides of calla lilies. As beautiful as these calla lilies were is as odorous they are decomposing. These heads are retro 60s and can be interchanged with a multitude of flowers. You can find them at your local garden.

Isn’t this an incredible stump. Heather seemed so appropriate to sit in its hollow.

It’s an earthy flower with tough branches for its stalks. To keep the irregularly shaped stalks upright we put some rotten branches in the vase to create a grid to keep the heather in place. Easier to be a stump.