No calendar captures flowers with more love, with more surprise, with more of an eye for the unexpected and the breathtakingly beautiful than Smith & Hawken's FLOWERS. Photographed by Sandra Johnson, a master of natural light, offbeat composition, and the subtleties of color, each month's image is ravishing. Fat, juicy garden roses, in vibrant reds and yellows, sit effortlessly in a fluted ceramic urn atop a bleached country table. An arrangement of hydrangea, plums, figs, and Meyer lemons is like a Dutch master still life in contemporary California. Lavatera bring the unruly charm of field wild-flowers to a sun-washed dining room. Month by month, FLOWERS evokes not only the natural beauty of the blooms themselves, but a feeling of a life lived in simplicity and harmony.
