Less is often more. Simple symmetries yield startling results.
It’s a wrap
(November 2025)
Last four-square of the season, from scans collected mostly March through June 2025. More or less from center: Tradescantia. Allium. Tradescantia (again). Crocus. Bearded iris. Trout lily. Cammassia. Dahlia petals. Crocus (again). Mertensia.
Nine circles
(November 2025)
After Dante. From center: Tulip. Magnolia. Poppy petal. Poppy bud. Daylily anthers. Cannas. Crocosmias. Dahlias. Dogwood.
Red season
(November 2025)
Hydrangia. Sumac. Japanese maple. Burning bush. Holly.
Slim-pickin’s
(October 2025)
Pawpaw. Lambs ears. Euphorbia. Lambs ears (again). Bittersweet.
Fall colors
(October 2025)
Viburnum plicatum. Asimina triloba (Pawpaw). Amsonia tabernaemontana (Eastern Bluestar).
Best for last
(October 2025)
Salvaged colors after first frost marks the end of one season and the beginning of the next.
Dealer’s choice
(September 2025)
Diamond …
… or square.
Your choice.
Chicago bouquet
(September 2025)
Dahlias. Eucomis. Pokeweed.
Labor Day doodle
(September 2025)
Dog’s dinner of rock garden allium, ironweed (Vernonia spp.), a bedding dahlia bloom, pineapple lily (Eucomis spp.) still pushing blooms in the vase.
Dahlia/Eucomis
(August 2025)
Canna parts
(August 2025)
@dayphoto: “Those emerging seed pods. They blow my mind.”
Mine too!
Weekend bloomers
(August 2025)
Rudbeckia laciniata ‘Hortensia’, pineapple lily (Eucomis), cleome, goldenrod.
Viny
(August 2025)
Potpourri of passifloras, nasturtiums, morning glories, watermelon vine, clematis, grape vine, Virginia creeper.
Leftover oranges
(August 2025)
July heat
(July 2025)
Daylily, crocosmia, coleus, viburnum.
Buds
(June 2025)
Daylilies, roses, verbascum.
Grain seedheads
(June 2025)
Solstice doodle.
(June 2025)
Lily flower and buds, hosta and inula blooms, immature bottlebrush buckeye and snakeroot (Cimicifuga racemosa, Actaea racemosa) inflorescences .
Petal power
(June 2025)
Dissected peonies, irises, poppies
Goatsbeard and buddies
(June 2025)
Father’s Day 4-square
(June 2025)
Alliums and poppies
(May 2025)
Gray May Sunday
(May 2025)
May mood
(May 2025)
Trout lilies
(April 2025)
Laura’s Daffs
(April 2025)
Worked with my brother to clean-up, print and frame this one as a surprise birthday present for his beloved. Hangs on the landing in their lake house.
Ephemerals and friends
(April 2025)
Ephemerals
(March 2025)
True colors
(March 2025)
These didn’t turn out the way I wanted. But I still like them.
Berry blast
(February 2025)
Different process, assembling the assemblies first, then arranging them.
Reclaimed reds
(February 2025)
From scans collected in 2024.
Rainy day potpourri
(February 2025)
From scans gathered through 2024. Center out (more or less): Dahlia. Callicarpa. Camassia. Abutilon. Narcissus. Bromeliad. Mertensia.
Blanched
(February 2025)
Tropicals sprouting in storage in the cellar, mostly.
Sunday doodle
(February 2025)
Dahlia. Euphorbia. Tulips. Ginger. Crocosmia. Lily. Abutilon. Nasturium.
Shelley’s Favorite
(February 2025)
Bronzy
(January 2025)
From scans mostly collected in 2024. Center out (more or less): Magnolia seedheads. Hydrangeas. Milkweed pods. Bittersweet fruit. Sedum. Miscanthis. A discarded evergreen pruning and some legume pods from trees gathered on the Ag Quad. Verbascum. Teasel. Fastigiate and pussy willow twigs. American bladdernut (Staphylea trifolia) seed pods. Call back to the Magnolia seedheads.
Questionable choices
(January 2025)
Dahlia, amaryllis and iris petals. Gingko leaves.
Therapy in White
(January 2024)
Hellebore flowers and foliage. Passiflora flowers and tendrils. Brugmansia. Cow parsnip. Teasel.
MLK Day
(January 2025)
Inside out: Iris ‘Katharine Hodgkin’. Winter aconite. Trout lily. Crocus. Verbascum. Various daffodils. Canna. Iris foliage.
” … unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
–Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.
Seeing red
(January 2025)
Mostly reddish scans from 2024. Dahlia, cornus, crocosmia, rosehips, castor bean, swamp maple, crabapples, strawberries and more.
Not my favorite color
(January 2025)
Mostly pinkish scans from 2024 reimagined. Center out: Water lily. Dahlia petals. Bromelliad. Rose. Gladiola. Snowberry. Oriental lily. Cereus. Dahlia. Pokeweed. Filipendula. Lori called it ‘Gorgeously baroque!’
Whitish
(January 2025)
Sorted through 2024 collections and pulled together the ones that were mostly white. This is first attempt at monochromatic 4 square, with maybe a few that are a little yellow (and of course some green).
Jimmy’s bouquet 4-square
(January 2025)
Fiddled with the plant material I gathered for Jimmy’s bouquet.
Solstice doodle
(December 2024)
Seasonal excessive disorder
(December 2024)
Amarylis and papyrus
(November 2024)
Black Friday leftovers
(November 2024)
Wreath season
(November 2024)
More fall fruit
(November 2024)
Teasel et al
(November 2024)
Fall reds
(November 2024)
Fall fruit
(November 2024)
Gingko leaf drop
(November 3, 2024)
Fave dahlia petal 4 square
(October 2024)
Hot dahlia petals
(October 2024)
‘It’s Decorative Gourd Season, MFers’ #2
(September 2024)
‘It’s Decorative Gourd Season, MFers’ #1
(September 2024)
Naked ladies, colchicums, brugmansias and more
(September 2024)
Passiflora
(August 2024)
Dog’s dinner
(July 2024)
Garlic scapes
(June 2024)
Iris-tradescantia doodle
(May 2024)
Daffodils for Eunice
(April 2024)
In memory of my mother-in-law, Eunice Danvers. From April 11 collection.
Windowsill
(January 2024)
In need of some greenery on this blustery MLK Day holiday weekend, found these interior plants mostly on my office windowsill.
Christmas walk (December 2023)
Mostly weeds gathered on walk to nearby field on Christmas Day. Foxtail, multiflora rose, milkweed, clematis (?), snowberries.
