Tabla de contenidos para July/August 2019 en Flower

SHORT-LIVED SHADE The blooms on Chinese snowball viburnum start out lime green in spring before they turn white. VIBRANT AND VERSATILE This green is one of nature’s neutrals and pairs beautifully with a variety of color schemes.…

I BUY ALL MY PLANTS AT THE FARMERS MARKETS. I DON’T HAVE A SET PLAN WHEN I GO. I JUST BUY WHAT STRIKES MY FANCY.—FIONA TILLEY YEARS AGO, IF YOU’D TOLD A YOUNG FIONA Tilley that in 2019 she would be a former Wall Street banker married to a Turkish jeweler and running the company that sells his designs, she might not have believed you. What she would have believed is that she would be the caretaker of a fabulous garden. For all her years as a world-traveling, hard-charging investment banker, gardening is a love that has never left her. “My mother is an avid gardener and my father studied horticulture,” she says. In fact, her last name is derived from “tiller of the soil,” the result of an ancestor…

Flower: Tell us about your upbringing in the Mississippi Delta and your many homes-away-from-home thereafter. Julia Reed: I grew up in Greenville, Mississippi, a small but surprisingly cosmopolitan town smack in the middle of the Delta. When I was 16, I left to attend boarding school and college in Washington, D.C., then stuck around to work at Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. Then I had a newspaper job in Winter Park, Florida, where I was a reporter for the Orlando Sentinel. Needless to say, the magazine world lured me back, so I took a job at Vogue in New York, where I stayed for 20 years. During that time, I visited New Orleans frequently. It was during one of those trips that I heard myself announce—at about 3…

PARTY VIBE Easy, relaxed, no pretense. “Feel free to kick off your shoes, and dogs and kids are always welcome,” says Nixon. DRESS CODE Come as you are—colorful and comfortable. “In New York we’d go to a party and everyone would be in black,” says Nixon. “Southerners wear pink, orange, and yellow; the women love their floral dresses, and the men sometimes have critters on their pants.” BLOOMS FOR ROOMS “We look to the garden for bright, happy flowers such as zinnias and dahlias and mix with traipsing vines—a sort of Constance Spry moment,” says Loecke. TASTY BITES Southern favorites a little gussied up. Think pimento cheese and red peppers on pumpernickel toast, and zucchini roll-ups with goat cheese and matchstick vegetables. “Everything is easy to pick up,” says Nixon.…

WHO AMONG US hasn’t sidled up to a bar at some point in time during a pregnancy, before a big race, or simply in a stretch of clean living and asked the bartender, in a voice mixed with hope and hesitation, “Do you by chance have a mocktail?” (Well, we may not have used that word exactly, but you know what I mean.) Now, the lazy or unimaginative bartender will demur and slide over a sweaty club soda with a sad little anemic lime floating on top. But in this moment, the intrepid bartender sees opportunity and will answer the call to surprise and delight. Such a bartender is British drinks master David Hurst. “In my experience, creating well-balanced and tasty virgin cocktails has always taken far more ingenuity,” writes…

Flower: Reed, the last time you were in this magazine was 10 years ago! You joined your uncle [famous New York florist Renny Reynolds] in 2000, creating the firm Renny & Reed. You’ve been at the helm since 2004. Catch us up on what’s new. Reed McIlvaine: It’s been very busy! We’re currently celebrating our 10th year in the South Florida market and we’re busier than ever down here. The New York shop [which sells retail flowers and handles events] has basically been staying strong, while the Florida market [a retail store and Florida events arm] has been on a steady incline. What did the shift toward Florida mean for you personally? Until fairly recently my family had been living in Bedford, New York, where my wife and I were…

IT ALL BEGAN WITH A DOG-EARED PAGE IN A design book. A well-known Charleston hostess had admired the elegant garden party pictured, so she approached event designers Mary Ruth Miller and Heather Barrie of Gathering Events to help her host a party of her own. She didn't necessarily have a special occasion, holiday, or milestone, but she didn’t need one. Her gorgeous and meticulously tended garden was cause enough for celebration. Designed in 1947 in the style of renowned American landscape architect Loutrel Briggs, the garden is a hybrid of European and Southern styles. The formal bed lines, lush shape, and balanced plantings of mature camellias, holly ferns, and agapanthus create cocoon-like privacy in the heart of Charleston’s historic district. At the center of the garden, a carpet of grass…

Crawfish Cardinale, a creamy, Cognac-tinged concoction, is a staple at Antoine’s, where it is served in a ramekin. Emeril Lagasse and John Folse serve theirs as an appetizer or main course in puff pastry patty shells. For this party, I passed around a tinier taste of the rich crawfish in hors d’oeuvre–size puff pastry shells straight out of the freezer case. ¼ cup (½ stick) butter½ cup minced shallots 2 teaspoons minced garlic2 tablespoons seafood stock2 tablespoons tomato paste2 tablespoons all-purpose flour2 cups heavy cream2 tablespoons Cognac or brandy1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice½ teaspoon salt½ teaspoon cayenne pepper1 pound crawfish tails 2 dozen mini pastry shells (I most often use Athens brand phyllo shells, which are ready to use straight out of the freezer, or Siljans crispy shells.) Melt…

1. THE HOUSTON DESIGN CENTER The second annual Design in Bloom with Flower Magazine took place at The Houston Design Center in conjunction with Texas Design Week. The event welcomed an illustrious lineup of talent, including renowned interior designer Bunny Williams, award-winning architect Jeffrey Dungan, garden and lifestyle expert P. Allen Smith, and floral designer Ariella Chezar. The day included individual design lectures, book signings, and a floral demonstration, as well as a pop-up shop with London-based Halcyon Days. 2. CHARLOTTE MOSS RECEPTION Interior designer Charlotte Moss held a private reception and dinner in New York City to celebrate Flower Editorin-Chief Margot Shaw’s new book, Living Floral. Notable attendees included Martha Stewart, Kevin Sharkey, Alex Papachristidis, and Gil Schafer. 3. FLOWERSCHOOL NEW YORK FlowerSchool New York hosted a cocktail party…

Wisteria Trumpet ($175) and Fern Posy vases ($125) by William Yeoward Crystal through Hudson-Poole Fine Jewelers, hudsonpoole.com. Chinoiserie teapot ($836), creamer ($393), and sugar bowl ($418) by Pinto Paris through DeVine Corporation, devinecorp.net for retailers. Barcelona wineglass ($268) by Varga through Gracious Style, graciousstyle.com. Pallas iced tea by Waterford Crystal (pattern discontinued; check Replacements, Ltd., replacements.com). Meissen Oriental Flowers Rose teacup and saucer through Scully & Scully, scullyandscully.com. Silk Ribbon dessert plate and charger by Herend, herendusa.com. Pink Lace dinner plate ($60) by Mottahedeh, mottahedeh.com. Healdsburg Collection napkin by Julia B., juliab.com. Towle King Richard 4-piece place setting ($219) and Broadway Silversmiths Pierced Basket Weave napkin ring ($129), both from Beverly Bremer Silver Shop, beverlybremer.com. Celeste fabric in Lilac by Raoul Textiles through John Rosselli & Associates, johnrosselli.com.…

MATERIALS ▪ Viburnum▪ Mint▪ Rosemary▪ White ranunculus▪ Pink ‘Clooney’ ranunculus▪ Flannel flower MATERIALS ▪ Foraged greenery▪ Mint▪ White ranunculus▪ Flannel flower▪ David Austin ‘Patience’ roses▪ White tulips▪ Pink ‘Clooney’ ranunculus▪ Rosemary Destiny’s inspiration I use a lot of whites and greens along with fresh herbs during summertime because they are so refreshing, but here I included coral pinks as well to add a cheerful note. I was also inspired by my client’s home, which is so elegant but with some unique and unexpected touches. These colors add to the ambience of the rooms without taking away from their muted, French attitude. MATERIALS ▪ Foraged greenery▪ Mint sprigs▪ ‘Coral Charm’ peonies▪ ‘Clooney’ ranunculus▪ David Austin ‘Patience’ roses▪ ‘Ivory Bells’ fritillaria▪ ‘Honeymoon’ tulip▪ White tulips▪ Flannel flower▪ Viburnum▪ Jasmine MATERIALS ▪‘Coral Charm’…

WHEN LOOKING FOR PROPERTY NEAR COOGEE, Australia, Marcella Kaspar and her husband, Mark Cooper, had an advantage—she’s an artist and he’s a designer, so they could look beyond the obvious. “I grew up in Coogee not far from this property,” says Kaspar. “We were really lucky no one else besides us seemed that interested in it. We absolutely loved it and we could see the potential.” Working as a team, Kaspar and Cooper created a beautiful, unique new home based on the premise of five-star resort living. “We love the concept of the indoor and outdoor areas merging, so the house was oriented around a central courtyard with a pool,” says Kaspar. “This means the house is always cool in summer, and we enjoy the wonderful play of light as…

THE CAVENDISH HOTEL, a rambling stone building in the stylish village of Baslow, looks out on the countryside toward Chatsworth’s Hunting Tower. A pleasant stroll through the park’s open fields takes you to the main house, perched at the edge of the Chatsworth estate. Filled with original antiques intermingled with contemporary pieces and artworks plucked from the family’s collections, the rooms feature huge fireplaces. The tweed-jacketed staff can arrange cycling in the Peak District. CHATSWORTH HOLIDAY COTTAGES, located on the estate, offer a variety of private options, such as the 16th-century Hunting Tower, which sits over an escarpment 400 feet above Chatsworth House at the edge of Stand Wood. This fascinating vertical pile, completed in 1582 for Bess of Hardwick, may have been a banqueting or summer house but was…

ON A STEAMY SATURDAY IN HIGH Point, North Carolina, the air feels just right for stirring up a late-afternoon summer storm, the kind that locals welcome for the relief it gives from the heat and the revival it brings to lawns wilted from too much sun and too little water. Welcome, that is, until Mother Nature becomes an unruly guest who crashes a party, like the one that John Loecke and Jason Oliver Nixon, the masterminds behind the design and lifestyle brand Madcap Cottage, have planned in their garden today. Visions of friends strolling their almost three-acre property with highballs and hors d’oeuvres in hand will have to wait for another time. The men, always quick on their feet, shift gears and move the festivities inside their 1930s-era Regency Revival…

Prices are subject to change. Any items not listed are unknown. IN BLOOM PAGES 11–14, BOOKS: From Garden to Glass: 80 Botanical Beverages Made From the Finest Fruits, Cordials, and Infusions by David Hurst (Universe Publishing, 2019), $23, amazon.com. Into the Garden by Christian Peltenberg-Brechneff, foreword by Bunny Williams (G Arts, 2019), $35, barnesandnoble.com. PAGES 22–25, MEET: Reed McIlvaine of Renny & Reed Flowers and Events, New York, 212.288.7000; Palm Beach, 561.776.1122, rennyandreed.com. FRESH STYLE PAGES 27–32, ARRANGE: Floral designby Destiny Pinson of Doris Ione, 504.509.1060, dorisione.com. PAGES 34–36, ENTERTAIN: Susan Sully, 843.906.3521, susansully.com; book, Southern Hospitality at Home by Susan Sully (Rizzoli New York, 2019; publication date September 17, 2019), $45, barnesandnoble.com. PEONY PARTY PAGES 38–45: Event and floral designby Mary Ruth Miller and Heather Barrie of Gathering Events, 843.723.3387,…