Hibiscus 2010 Calendar

Hibiscus 2010 Calendar by catherinesherman

Enjoy a year of gorgeous hibiscus blooms.

Butterflies 2010 Calendar

Butterflies 2010 Calendar by catherinesherman
Browse other Butterflies Calendars  Click on the link or photograph above to enjoy a year’s worth of gorgeous butterflies.

Hummingbird Wisdom Poster

Hummingbird Wisdom Poster by catherinesherman
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White Orchids Greeting Cards for Weddings and Other Occasions

Click here to shop for White Orchids Greeting Cards with a Japanese flair.   If you need a beautiful card for a thank you, to wish someone a happy birthday or for anyone who participates in your wedding party, you’ll find what you’re looking for here.

An Invitation to your Best Friend to be Your Matron of Honor.

Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly Greeting Card

 

A Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly finds refreshment in the nectar from a zinnia flower in my garden. Left click on the photo to see a larger version on the greeting card website.

Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly Blank Greeting Cards  

To learn more about this beautiful butterfly, which is the state butterfly of Tennessee, click on Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly.  Animal pollinators, such as butterflies, bees and hummingbirds, pollinate plants that produce up to a third of the food we eat.   To learn more about the importance of pollination, click on Pollinator Partnership and Monarch Watch.

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Garden Collage Greeting Card

A Giant Swallowtail Butterfly is the star of this collage of flowers from the Monet and water gardens at the Overland Park Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. The watermark doesn't appear on the printed card.

 As two artist friends painted plein aire in early June, I roamed around the Overland Park Arboretum and Botanical Gardens with my camera.  I’d put down my pencils, because I couldn’t sit still long enough to draw anything.  There was too much to see.  I was lucky to spot a Giant Swallowtail butterfly flit through.  It settled for a moment on a flower stalk, long enough for me to take its portrait.

Click here to see Flower Garden Collage Greeting Card.

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 Learn more by clicking on Giant Swallowtail.

Roses Collage Greeting Cards

 

Loose Park in Kansas City is famous for its roses.

My mother and I recently strolled Loose Park in Kansas City when these roses were in full bloom.  I’m glad the gardeners in Loose Park do all of the work — the pruning, spraying, watering, cleaning.   All we have to do is enjoy their results.  I can enjoy roses all year long in my photographs.  I designed rose collage cards for many occasions or even no occasion at all! 

Each year, a couple of hundred reservations are made for weddings in the Rose Garden at Loose Park, which makes this a perfect card to send to a couple enjoying an outdoor wedding: Rose Collage Congratulations.  It’s blank inside so you can add your own verse on-line when you order it, at no charge.

Here’s one to send to grandparents, even if they didn’t get married outdoors years ago:  Rose Collage Happy Anniversary Card.  At the bottom of the Greeting Card Universe page is a link that will take you to more rose collage cards from my card store, It’s a Beautiful World! 

 In 1931, several Kansas Citians under the leadership of Laura Conyers Smith established the Kansas City Rose Society and its public garden in Loose Park.  The first garden contained 120 rose plants; there are now about 4,000 roses of nearly 150 varieties in the garden of 1.5 acres.  In 1965, the garden was named the Laura Conyers Smith Municipal Rose Garden.

Each year at the height of rose season, the Kansas City Rose Society sponsors the Laura Conyers Smith Rose Day.  This year it was June 7, when the garden was re-dedicated after extensive renovations, including the planting of 1,200 new roses. The circular plan was the original concept of landscape architect S. Herbert Hare.  It contains pergolas, fountains and gravel walkways.