“Gardening with Loved Ones” our new 2024 Spring Collection
In honoring the cherished bond between family, friendship, and nature, I am thrilled to announce the upcoming release of our spring stationery line.
Each card features original pencil drawings of flowers by artist, Carmen M Frank, my beautiful and talented mom.
These cards are not just pieces of art; they are reflections of moments spent in the garden, cultivating laughter, wisdom, and a profound connection with nature. Capturing the essence of beauty and love shared between loved ones.
As an artist and someone who deeply values family bonds and the joy of community gardening, I invite you to join me in celebrating these precious memories and the enduring love that transcends time and space.
It is my greatest wish that with each card sent, we honor the legacy of our friends and family, and the beauty of life's timeless treasures.
My mom and I shared a love of gardening. My first childhood home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, had a patio with lots and lots of potted plants under a vast grape vine, where we spent countless magical afternoons playing. A few years later, my parents designed and built their dream house. It had a large garden out back with a lemon tree and a matured plum tree that gave us endless amounts of fruits. Before my parents could truly finish the house we migrated to NY. My grandmother Liesel, was a vessel of love. An animal and nature lover. Her garden in Brooklyn was covered with roses, hydrangeas, rhododendrons, hundreds of bulbs that happily popped in timely fashion as Spring warmed our days and showered us with drops of rain. From tiny crocus, bright daffodils and waves of rainbow colors of irisis and tulips. The cherry blossoms weighting down heavy branches of pink flowers that would transform the green grass to an enchanted fairy carpet.
That first summer that we moved to NY was also my introduction to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Within a few days of landing in JFK, my mom signed us up to volunteer in the Rose garden, as a way to learn English, meet people and spend time together. I didn’t know it then, but this would show me the way to the joy of community gardening and social and volunteer engagement for years to come.
It was also in the wake of a Spring not long ago, that I finally allowed myself to grieve my mother’s sudden death from cancer. Now, as the cycle of seasons carry on and grief, pain and moments in time reshape themselves into art, the garden goes on. Together with my girls I plant new seeds, and watch our garden come to life. I’ve come to realize that creating a space of love and growth with family and friends is one of my greatest joys.
What brings joy to you? Do you like to garden? what are some of your rituals that help you feel closer to your loved ones or have helped you in moments of emotional pain or grief? I’d love to hear from you. Leave us a comment or email us with your thoughts.
For a limited time only, as an introductory offer. Get the Assorted bundle of our 7 new designs for the already reduced price of a bundle of 6. Offer will expire soon.
Laura and Carmen pruning roses, 1988. Volunteers of the Cranford Rose Garden at The Brooklyn Botanic Garden as pictured in Roses Of America, The Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Guide to Our National Flower by Stephen Scanniello.
Daffodils, pencil drawing by Carmen M Frank. Part of “Gardening with Loved Ones” Collection
Daffodils planted with my girls in our family garden are in full bloom.