Come into my garden…
“Flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid…like love!”
- thus spoke the excecutioner in Mirbeau’s Torture Garden.
Spring is breathing its sweet breath on London, bringing both cherry blossom along with girls and boys of easy virtue to open their petals…
I’m lusting after a new Mimi Holliday creation called Fleur du Mal eluding a Baudelairian opium laced decadence. Champagne silk overlayed with suggestive and ornately embroided black lace. One for a cruel flower…
My turn of phrase is most definetly inspired by my latest read, The Decadent Gardener by Medlar Lucan & Durian Gray. An inspired collection of notes on the bizzare gardening projects by the two narrators. How about an erotic garden of venus complete with obscene statues and aphrodisiac plants? Took a stroll down the Flower market this morning seeing the tall stemmed lilies and suggestive orchids with all new eyes…
Happy gardening!
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