The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #10680   Message #75419
Posted By: Guy Wolff
03-May-99 - 09:28 PM
Thread Name: Favorite Flowers and yard decor
Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor
I'Ve an awfull black thumb but my life is mostly in the garden and around plantsmen{Plants-peaple?}. I desighn and make flower-pots for the likes of Martha and historic gardens{the peaple at Smith & HAwken have kept me tap-dancing for years}.I love the portrate of Rubens Peale with Geranium painted by his brother in 1801 on bringing a geranium back from London for his fathers natural history collection in Philadelphia. The pot and plant ended up being given to then president T.Jefferson.A good flower-pots first job is to disapear when it is planted so all you see is the plant. Different plants have different intention so the pots you make for them most miror that. A languid plant gets a languid pot and so on..I think Martha S. will have a chat on plants and pots in the near future.I got to play banjo at the begining of the segment I did with her 2 or 3 years ago.We had alot of fun.Great pizza as well.....I love old apple trees....Apple blossoms.......Cheers Guy~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~