Thanks to the wonders of Photoshop, a banana plant outside the Surroundings nursery on Capitol Hill masquerades as a Bird of Paradise. / Photo, here and on the front, by Stephanie Cavanaugh. MY BABY, a fine piece of work, and…
Thanks to the wonders of Photoshop, a banana plant outside the Surroundings nursery on Capitol Hill masquerades as a Bird of Paradise. / Photo, here and on the front, by Stephanie Cavanaugh. MY BABY, a fine piece of work, and…
…the bird of paradise earlier, having winged it to the skylight, realized it was closed, and then settled down. How light she is. The leaf scarcely trembled. The day before, she sat in a schefflera and stared at a brick…
…Preserve is a thousand-acre paradise of native plants and relics of an ancient settlement. It’s startling to realize that the orchids, birds of paradise, bougainvillea—all of the showy tropical flowers we associate with the islands—were brought there either deliberately by…
…jasmine, lemon, bird of paradise and so on. I don’t much care for salad either. Welcome home, birds. —Stephanie Cavanaugh LittleBird “Stephanie Gardens” loves her some wildlife, maybe more rewarding than plants that won’t talk back to her. …
By Stephanie Cavanaugh COOPER MIGHT remember living in the greenhouse, flying over the jasmines, perching on the bird of paradise. Maybe not, after all she has a bird brain. Coop is a parakeet as white as a ghost, white as…
Cannas and birds of paradise–in paradise. / Photo by Stephanie Cavanaugh. These are the seductive little Desert Gems. / Photo by Stephanie Cavanaugh. Jasmine. Of course. / Photo by Stephanie Cavanaugh. Sago palms, ready to thrive but probably not at…
…leaves. (Yank them in the fall, dust off the soil, and store the bulbs in a cool, dry place, like under a chair, and you’ll have them for years.) Still an experiment for me are bird of paradise, which may…
…exceptional number of lovely birds that have descended on us this spring. Have you noticed all of the birds? That is one of the (very few) upsides to this virus. A dovecote seemed such a romantic idea. It’s a bird…
…judicious use of fake flowers in the garden, pots, and window boxes. About now, you’ve thrown in the towel on seeing a blossom this season on the plumeria, the bird of paradise, or the hydrangea (bad pruning!). The peonies have…
…the white Bird of Paradise, all 8 feet of it, and its three orange cousins. After all. Someday they just might flower. *The birds all have brown nostrils, or whatever you call the tops of their beaks, which means…
…I pointed with my cane (which I claim is in use because of a trapeze accident) and said, “Move the ginger to the front corner, and the pot of bird of paradise to the back”—I’m positive that they are bird…
This corner of my tropical garden in Washington DC has, among other things, white and orange bird of paradise (not that they flower), clivia, elephant ears, ferns, palms and a kumquat. All are wintered over in a little greenhouse. /…
…the jasmines, two in the dining room, picking up stray bits of light from the back porch doors. One bloomed quite fabulously in December. There’s a grow light on during the day for the white bird of paradise, also in…
…do I move Cooper, the world’s most antisocial budgie? He now occupies the only possible spot for that big bird of paradise, next to the glass porch doors where a morning sunbeam might tickle its leaves. Sigh. *Here I picture…
…MyLittleBird photo. India Hicks’s beetle-motif cosmetics bags, upper right, her scarves, foreground, and Indi Token charms on chains. / MyLittleBird photo. The leather Agra tassel from India Hicks, destined to be a key fob or . . . handbag charm….
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…I already have six or seven or eight elephant ears, somewhere out back. The six-foot banana and a 10-foot bird of paradise are in the greenhouse, waiting to be placed, along with many, many lower-growing tropicals. I laugh. And just…
…is overwhelming, nauseating even. One’s nose changes over time they say, correctly. In more positive news. Happy I am with six new additions. My baby sister, in a burst of inspired inspiration, ordered orange Bird of Paradise from a grower…
Shakira (he, on the left) and Vinnie (she, on the right) make kissie-face bird-style. / Photo by Stephanie Cavanaugh. I’M MISSING my birds this morning. It’s years since they’ve been here, but they brought such pleasure. The avian incursion occurred…
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