On the Inside with Jacqueline Heriteau: Flower Power at the White House

Posted on Friday, January 01, 2010 by admin in Care
Tags: Flower Power at the White House, Green parlor:, On the Inside, with Jacqueline Heriteau

When the garden goes to sleep, do you get this deep, gnawing hunger for fresh flowers? One way I get around it is to pick flowers from some of my houseplants — a cyclamen blossom and the tip of a fern frond, for example, makes a sweet little nosegay, and a geranium set in a tip sprig of variegated pothos is adorable.

But of course, I also feast on perfumed and pampered florists’ flowers. Some of the most elegant, simple, arrangements I’ve ever seen were created by a veteran White House florist Rusty Young. I interviewed him years ago for Family Circle Magazine shortly before he retired. The flowers he worked with came from the wholesale market and even from the supermarket, but in Rusty’s hands they became arrangements fit for a First Lady!