Sunday, May 3rd from 12 to 5 p.m., stop by the shop, buy a delicious cupcake or cookie and help support Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Gotham Gardens is pleased to participate in this first nationwide grass-roots bake-a-thon to raise money for breast cancer research. Who knows? While you're here, you might just find the perfect gift for Mother's Day. Want to know more? Check out Bake for Hope here or on Facebook.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Satisfy your Sweet Tooth for a Good Cause
Sunday, May 3rd from 12 to 5 p.m., stop by the shop, buy a delicious cupcake or cookie and help support Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Gotham Gardens is pleased to participate in this first nationwide grass-roots bake-a-thon to raise money for breast cancer research. Who knows? While you're here, you might just find the perfect gift for Mother's Day. Want to know more? Check out Bake for Hope here or on Facebook.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
The Glories of Spring
Spring brings with it some of the year's most gorgeous blooms and blossoms. Plump peonies. Astonishing anemones. Luscious lilacs. A dazzling variety of tulips. Who can resist?
We sure can't. Anymore than we can resist this groaner. If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring?
Pilgrims, of course.
A note for the historically-minded. In the mid-16th century, Thomas Tusser, musician, farmer and poet, put his observations on farming, country life and human nature into rhyming couplets and published first A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, followed by the expanded, Five Hundredth Good Pointes of Husbandrie. To him we owe the familiar observation on April showers among other sayings:
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
The stone that is rolling can gather no moss.
Naught venture, naught have.
Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Some respite to husbands the weather may send, but housewives' affairs have never an end.
We sure can't. Anymore than we can resist this groaner. If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring?Pilgrims, of course.
A note for the historically-minded. In the mid-16th century, Thomas Tusser, musician, farmer and poet, put his observations on farming, country life and human nature into rhyming couplets and published first A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, followed by the expanded, Five Hundredth Good Pointes of Husbandrie. To him we owe the familiar observation on April showers among other sayings:
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
The stone that is rolling can gather no moss.
Naught venture, naught have.
Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Some respite to husbands the weather may send, but housewives' affairs have never an end.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Ideas for your Passover Table
Instead of one large centerpiece for the table, consider multiples -- several small arrangements that won't get in way of all the platters and bowls and give you lots of flexibility and versatility. Here are a variety of arrangements created in small, delicate glasses for inspiration. Choose one color palette with different kinds of flowers; one type of flower in different colors; or variations on a theme. See what we mean by versatility?
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