GardenSpirits NY

SunFlowers.........

"I am working with the

enthusiasm of a man from

Marseilles eating

bouillabaisse, which

shouldn't come as a

surprise to you because I

am busy painting huge

sunflowers."

— Vincent Van Gogh

"I have gathered this bouquet for you!...."
 

—French Renaissance
Poet Ronsard

"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck."
Emma Goldman

"The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is."     

Paulo Coelho

"Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time."     

Edmund Spenser

"The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms." 

Angelus Silesius

The fifth most popular flower in the world, Gerbera daisies can mean innocence, purity, and cheerfulness. These large daisy variations come in a number of vibrant colors, and sending them is the perfect way to brighten someone's day.

Thou unassuming Commonplace Of Nature.
 

—Willliam Wordsworth

"That men by reason will it calle may The daisie or elles the eye of day The emperice, and floure of floures alle."
 

—Geoffry Chaucer

"That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune."
 

—Geoffry Chaucer

The earliest flowers of spring

To thee, beloved, I bring:

Anemone and graceful adder's-tongue,

With golden cowslips, yellow as the sun

And fresh as brooks by which they sprung;

Sweet violets that we love; and, one by one,

The blossoms that come after,--cherry blossom

......

—Arlo Bates

“Poetry is the synthesis of

hyacinths and biscuits.”

― Carl Sandburg

"If you have two loaves of

bread, keep one to nourish

the body, but sell

the other to buy hyacinths

for the soul."

—Herodotus

WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd,

And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night,

I mourn'd — and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

O ever-returning spring! trinity sure to me you bring;

Lilac blooming perennial, and drooping star in the west,

And thought of him I love.

—Walt Whitman,

"When Lilacs in the Door-yard Bloom-d" 

.....In memory of
Abraham Lincoln

"O FLOWER whose beauty Wordsworth with delight

Beheld and sang a hundred years ago,

Still hast thou golden loveliness to show,

Still is thy twofold yellow fresh and bright."...

—Robert Henry Forster

"That beautiful
season the Summer! 
Filled was the air
with a dreamy and
magical light; 
and the landscape
Lay as if new
created in all
the freshness
of childhood." 

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“I must have flowers,
always, and always.”

—Claude Monet

“I will be the gladdest thing under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.”

― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.” 

― Oscar Wilde

"If I do live again I would like to be as a flower –

no soul but

perfectly beautiful.

Perhaps for my sins

I shall be made

a red geranium!"

 — Oscar Wilde

oranges from the south of spain

stars hang out at
night linen left to dry

red geraniums along
the balconies
nodding, nodding
willing to agree to anything
just to keep their color.....

— Pablo Picasso
 

First discovered in Japan, the name hydrangea comes from the Greek "hydor," meaning water, and "angos," meaning jar or vessel. This roughly translates to "water barrel," referring to the hydrangea's need for plenty of water and its cup-shaped flower. With its wooden stems and lacy, star-shaped flowers packed closely together in a pompom, the hydrangea's color ranges from white to blue to pink and purple, determined by the acidity level of the soil.

"How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning." 

—Vincent van Gogh

"An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss, This art of writing billet-doux In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips; and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies."

Leigh Hunt
 

"It always seemed to me that the herbaceous peony is the very epitome of June. Larger than any rose, it has something of the cabbage rose's voluminous quality; and when it finally drops from the vase, it sheds its petticoats with a bump on the table, all in an intact heap, much as a rose will suddenly fall, making us look up from our book or conversation, to notice for one moment the death of what had still appeared to be a living beauty."

— Vita Sackville-West

Dahlias......

“Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...” 

― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” 

― Mark Twain

Digital Prints can be made of any watercolor upon request.

Please inguire about several I have in stock. Archival digital prints on watercolor paper.

Flower Shops ..........My Favorites

Sag Harbor Florist, Sag Harbor, NY

Topiaire of Southampton..... Everywhere Cluttered Signs.... Shabby Chic

France

“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station—the Gare D’Orsay—and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees—nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train?"

— Margaret Anderson