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Roses and tulips

More is More

Peach roses and parrot tulips are ravishing by themselves, but see what happens when you keep adding more colors in the same range—green-streaked amaryllis buds, coral and gold arbutus balls, spiky yellow nerines like rays of light—and set it all against a cool, dark background. It just glows, doesn't it?

Zinc vase, Dandelion. Pruning scissors, Takashimaya. Tablecloth, Sabira Collection.

From the January 2004 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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