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Stephen Orr, Dark Genius
Was everybody as enthralled with the story in the Entertaining section of this month's issue, "In The Vase - Dark Flowers" (pg 75, Sept 2007) as I was?
You all know about my penchant for somber colored leaves and flowers - remember the post Dark and Luscious... - where I added a bonus cocoa nib cookie recipe (Try it! Anyone who eats one will fall deeply in love with you - they are THAT powerfully good). And then there was More Dark and Luscious (surely I could have come up with a different title - or at least a different word for "Dark")
Well, the man behind the posies is the Andre Leon Talley of gardens - Stephen Orr. As contributing garden editor for Domino, he has been putting together some wonderful stories, but this one is particularly close to my gothic heart. I think Orr may have a bit of the vampire in him - on pg 76, he suggests that you 'use your teeth' to tighten the twine around bundle of stems. Was this a subliminal shout out to his shadowy bretheren, or...
Mr. Orr also wrote and produced the story about Oscar de la Renta's "Haute Vegetable Garden" - GULP! What beauty! That arched espaliered apple walkway! Those perfect little puffs of lettuce and chives! I have no illusions about my soon-to-be-completed vegetable garden... it is going to be something utterly different (and awesome) - but I am so glad I read the article before planting. I have some new ideas now, and the images have gotten me charged up. Even a Germinatrix needs inspiration - and Stephen Orr gives it to me every time!
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