Dragonwell Dead- Laura Childs Book Details: It’s springtime in Charleston and just about every species of South Carolina’s flora is in full and glorious bloom at the Spring Plantation Ramble. Once a year, the upper crust open their sprawling gardens to the public, the site of flower shows, rare plant auctions, and a contagious spring [...]

Summerland is an island of eternal summer, here there is no aging, sickness or poor health. It follows wherever the sun goes and the nights can be shorter but cool. There are three entities of this island; a winged adolescent Juventas, or Juve, the angel of youth and energy; Senectus, an old man and enemy [...]

I would quite like to write a Historical Fiction story. I would like to do it on the Victorians or Tudors. I also like fantasy (although not with Historical Fiction) and I’m writing a story about a girl who has to help her fairy friends make an antidote to a rare fairy illness. This is [...]

Let me start by saying that I know the tuning will suffer because of humidity/temp changes. I have a good piano in my house and I have an old Victorian piano that I tried to give away, but am unsuccessful so far. This old piano was found in a barn about a decade ago. I [...]

I bought some plant seeds for a garden-lover but they asked for cacti and seasonal flowering plants (ones that would suit a dry/arid climate, hot summers, cool-ish winters (not snowy, just in the 5o’s F at night) and relatively low amounts of rainfall? Also, I was looking through the labels and saw “perrenials” and “annuals,” [...]

I feel I spiritually belong in 1880 in the gardens of London in a beautiful summers day…I fancy the victorian era so much Im obsessed with it and have been all my life, I have a certain fascination for it, I don’t know why.. To me dying and going to heaven would be going back [...]

I feel I spiritually belong in 1880 in the gardens of London in a beautiful summers day…I fancy the victorian era so much Im obsessed with it and have been all my life, I have a certain fascination for it, I don’t know why.. To me dying and going to heaven would be going back [...]

I had this nightmare last night. I know it’s long, but please read it. I was in a really beautiful garden outside someone’s Victorian house, and I was walking around admiring the fountains and flowers and the gorgeous statues. Then I stumbled upon this room, not Not really a room, but more just like…walls. Ruined [...]

Giant Smelly Flower Puts On Sex Show In Belgium MEISE, Belgium (Reuters) – It’s one of the world’s largest flowers, it stinks of rotting meat or rancid cheese and looks very much like a giant penis. The Amorphophallus Titanum — literally “the giant strangely shaped penis” — has been attracting big crowds at the National [...]

In 1993 I bought a huge painting from haverty’s furniture. it came with a certificate of authenticity that it is an original oil on canvas, by one painter from original sketches. it is victorian in nature showing two ladies and on young girl picking flowers in a garden. they are wearing winter victorian outerwear. the [...]