What is it about the combination of lilac and green that soothes and brightens all at once? Maybe the design scheme still seems a bit of a surprise, as opposed to say, a room decked out in soft turquoise and white, one which we all know and would happily move into tomorrow. Or perhaps there's something wired within our brainstem - the part that knows without thinking - that recognizes the beguiling interplay of lilac and green as two of Mother Nature's favorite bedfellows.
When my sweet mother passed away a few years ago, a dear friend gave me a miniature lilac bush. It blooms just around mother's day every year, and my heart fills with thankfulness for my mother, and for my friend Cheryl, and for all the friends and mothers I have been inspired by, and for my own two boys, now 23 and 26.
