Come visit us outside of Gallery on Park for our monthly pop-up with Maxine Manges. Maxine makes beautiful pottery vessels called frogs. She then fills them with flowers that she grows in her home garden in Glenn Mills.

Flower frogs date back to 14th century Japan as a means of assisting florists with flower arranging. ... Some are not used in vases but come with their own containers to hold the water and, even more interestingly, some are beautiful ceramic figurines with holes to hold flowers as an art form.

Flower frogs were very popular in the mid-twenties and thirties during the flapper era yet they can be traced back to the 16th century in Europe. The oldest flower frog in the US can be traced back to a patent issued in 1875. ... They are so helpful in holding the flower stems upright!

“I am making frogs as a practical and useful way to arrange flowers if one feels inadequate in that department. As a vessel it is beautiful when standing alone, so can be placed beside the table candlesticks, or on a  shelf, but there it is waiting for some water and short cut flowers at any time of the year. The holes are big enough for a sturdy stem, and unlike the old glass ones my Mom used to use, they support the stem long enough so that they don't fall over and don't have to sit in yet another container. Most have elegant little tippy toe feet.

They will be filled with flowers for you on site to take home or give as a gift.”

- Maxine Manges