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I had toad lilies in my former garden and miss them. They are orchid-like flowers that bloom late summer and early fall. Here’s what Smithfield Gardens perennial expert Ann Weber says about them ...
Pin frogs were developed in Japan where they’re called “kenzan.” They’re used in ikebana, a Japanese art form of arranging flowers.
While many frogs eat insects, the tree frog species Xenohyla truncata has a taste for the pulp of bulbous fruits and the nectar in the tree’s flowers. As they seek that nectar, the frogs dunk ...
Controlling exactly how flowers appear is the central goal of most arrangers (well, some of the time, anyway). Old master paintings depict enormous cut flower displays suited to the very wealthy ...
Helpfully, many flower frogs of the 1930s came from Czechoslovakia, both in glass and glazed ceramics, and these will be marked. Starting in the 1920s and lasting into the 1960s, ...
Pin frogs were developed in Japan where they’re called “kenzan.” They’re used in ikebana, a Japanese art form of arranging flowers.