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Quite Contrary

“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” – George Eliot    

Flowers, Fruit, and Four Years

There is no better way to celebrate four years than having your husband call your friend of Quite Contrary Flowers to make a floral arrangement of blue hydrangeas (the flower symbolizing four years, and one of the wedding flowers) and baby’s breath.       And, when the hydrangeas start to die off, just gather […]

Quite Contrary

“A rose is a rose is a rose.” – Gertrude Stein   Grand Rapids is getting a lot prettier, at least from my point of view, which is smack dab in the middle of flowers.      

Quite Contrary

“Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.” – Walt Whitman   I am in love with ornamental greens and succulents. Luckily, so is the rest of Grand Rapids. This means my friend has copious varieties to choose from, like this gorgeous, green cabbage.