Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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70 SPRING 2022 cultivate attractions feature fragrance—fleeting aromas float on sea breezes from daffodils, hyacinths, grape hyacinths, and other spring attractions. You might never notice their scents unless you were on hands and knees. This is a way to bond with a season you've been waiting for months to perceive. Make the most of it. The easiest way to enjoy spring's bounty is to cut a little fistful of precocious blossoms and cluster them into a mini bouquet. In early spring, you'll probably be working with petite performers and a handful of flowers is all you can gather. Leave plenty in place to be fruitful and multiply. But in spring, the tiniest clutch of flowers says plenty, while the presentation is everything. Here's an idea: Rather than gathering your harvest into a bud vase or apothecary jar, spread out the goods. Get maximum mileage by fanning out flowers, tucking individual slender stems into flower northshoremag.com/nshorehome/ Dig into your garden and bring a little spring inside— everything is fair game, from violets to columbine and creeping Charlie.