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Jason and Kalina’s wedding at garden vineyards

We used black baccarat roses from local grower Peterkort roses along with sea foam green
echavarias, deep chocolate fern curls and native maidenhair fern.

http://www.peterkortroses.com/

Garden Vineyards is one of our most favorite venues you can visit them year round for wine tastings, special dinners and even summer movie nights.

Mushroom Hike

If you get a chance sign up for guided mushroom hike with Wendell Wood from Oregon Wild. He is a wealth of information about our mycological forrest friends.

I had to sneak in a few more flower shops and gardens before we came home from Amsterdam

My dream shop – it’s located in an old church – how perfect!

It you find yourself in Amsterdam be sure to check out Urban Green

Gerda’s flowers was so beautiful and the people so friendly!

Pompon was right around the corner from my flat so I cam in almost every day to see ginormous buckets filled with gloriosas, amaryllis and all sorts of lovelies.

This little shop was so darling but the owner was not amused by me taking pictures – make sure you ask in Holland!

The Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam

The cycad house


Giant water lotus that blooms for only 2 nights then turns it’s face down into the water to form its seeds.

Did I say giant?

Delicate butterfly

Fun little diorama

Shopping for inspiration at the Saturday Market

This blue is so vivid!

I love how these delicate little cosmos catch the light.

Chandelier bits and pieces.

I don’t have enough room in my luggage to bring everything home.

This blue line is just enchanting.

Magical winged being under glass.

Flower shops in Amsterdam

“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Tiny Gardens in the city

I love to see nature taking back what belongs to her.

Someone wants to be outside in the garden.

Shopping for vintage lovelies

“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.” ~ Anaïs Nin

“Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.” ~
 Tom Robbin

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom”.

~Anais Nin