This week I’ve bought some of yet another of my favourite flowers – Gerberas. They are so bright and bold. If a flower is red, then Gerberas are scarlet, if a flower is yellow the Gerberas are sunshine! The problem is that Gerberas don’t last long in arrangements and many florists wire them to keep them [...]
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I was driving past a ‘Pick Your Own’ farm the other day and my eye was caught by row upon row of metre high flower stems in a dazzling array of colours. I pulled over to the side of the road to take a closer look and found that the field was full of Gladioli flowers [...] It’s time for a rant now! I’m fed up seeing Chrysanthemums being abused by flower arrangers. They are used as fillers in bouquets and then arrangements or they are horrifically misused, tightly packed together in ‘pictures’ or to spell out words. I was reminded of this misuse today when walking past queued traffic and specifically a [...] Thought I was in trouble today! My wife was in hospital for a small operation and I dropped her off at the hospital but then couldn’t stay as I had agreed to fit a new kitchen in my parents’ home and I’d left them with no water and no cooking facilities. So I asked Cathy’s [...] From my youth I can remember my mother loving the deep blue Agapanthus lilies that used to grow in the hotel grounds where my uncle and grandfather worked. When the hotel closed down the site was due to be levelled and a leisure centre built there. My uncle asked the builder if he could take a [...] Hot weather’s arrived in the UK and in Cyprus and my arrangements are suffering here in the UK. It’s fine doing an arrangement and making it look stunning, placing it in the perfect position but it’s disheartening seeing your hard work wilting within a day of its creation. So what can you do about it? - Use the [...] OK, whilst I can give you tips and ideas on what to do, there’s nothing like the real thing and I was reminded of that this week when a friend invited me to the flower arranging club she runs at our local church. She’s been arranging flowers as an amateur for years and has become [...] I recently visited an attraction called ‘World of Flowers’ in Devon, near where I used to live. They’d begun their quest about ten years ago carving huge flower beds out of the hillside in the shape of the countries of the world. Then, a few years later, rather than rely on just the flowerbeds for the [...] Hi, now I’m back home from the show I’ve managed to catch up with the TV coverage and realised just how much I missed. I can’t say that I’m disappointed but there seems to be so much more that as a visitor you don’t get to see. My aim was to see the new plants [...] Our local council have been out planting the flowerbeds on the roadsides now for a few weeks and I’ve been watching with interest the development on the focal point of these beds, a plant that looks like a straggly banana palm but which has the most wonderfully coloured, if untidy looking flower. Collaring a workman one [...] |
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