HI THERE! I'M BRIANNE TURCZYNSKI, FREELANCE WRITER, HISTORICAL RESEARCHER, & PERPETUAL SEEKER OF THE HUMAN CONDITION. WELCOME TO MY SPACE WHERE I SHARE THE BOOKS I'M READING, MY SPIRITUAL FINDINGS, FLOWERS IN MY GARDEN, AND LOST STORIES. ALL ARE WELCOME HERE.
I would like to...render thanks now to this graceful iris which arises from reedy stems in delicate flower-heads of dark purple, lavender, and white. It varies in its colour[sic], and that is one of its most attractive characteristics. -Vita Sackville-West More For Your Garden June 27th, 1954 If you've read my post, Snatching Velvet in … Continue reading Why Love The Iris?: An Interview with the American Iris Society
Another vine which is giving me great pleasure at the moment is Vitis heterophylla, an East Asian. You can't eat it, but you can pick it and put it in a little glass on your table, where its curiously coloured berries and deeply cut leaves look oddly artificial, more like a spray designed by a … Continue reading Porcelain Berry Bright…
Meanwhile we surround a huge black Chinese jar with the blue Oxypetalum and the blue plumbago all through the summer, and drop a pot full of morning glory, Heavenly Blue, into the Chinese jar, to pour downwards into a symphony of different blues. -Vita Sackville-West A Joy of Gardening; 1958 I missed writing a post … Continue reading Morning Glory: A Warning
"The Morning Glory is a joy every year. Those enormous sky-blue trumpets that open every morning before breakfast and shut themselves up again between luncheon and tea...You must make sure to get the right kind: it is called Ipomea rubra-coerulea, Heavenly Blue." -Vita Sackville-West In Your Garden: February 12, 1950 Vita loved her Morning … Continue reading From Muddy Waters to Finding the Perfect Shade of Blue
BRIANNE TURCZYNSKI 