midsummer flowers

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Midsummer-flowers  
On Sunday nights in the summer, I often head out to my parent's house where my mom allows me to raid her garden for my weekly flowers. She's incredibly generous. This time, I was really wowed by the honeysuckle (it holds up amazingly well) as well as the old-fashioned garden dianthus. Try smelling that dianthus and then tell me if you still hate the carnation family. It's simply divine!

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These books are really special to me. The top one was gifted to me by my cousin Dorothy  on a trip to England in 2002. Flowers and Their Travels was given to me by a really amazing, quirky gardener friend in Michigan, when I interned at The Grand Hotel's gardens.

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See more details of the books + flowers over at my Flickr.

Photos and flowers by Chelsea Fuss.