I looked out over the balcony of our apartment the other day to see the neighbours below us had made an arrangement on their balcony. It was difficult to see well from above but what caught my eye was the way they’d used driftwood from Lara Bay to set their arrangement. It was a sun-bleached, very [...]
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I think I’m at the lowest I’ve been in a long time and yet I should be at my happiest. Last Sunday I finally achieved my dream of moving to Cyprus to live and work. I’m sat writing this post overlooking Paphos and Coral Bay, it’s a balmy 82 degrees at seven o’clock in the evening [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] I hope you all missed me! I went on a trip last week with some children from school and it meant that all week I didn’t have access to a computer. What I did have access to was the most wonderful plant experience I’ve ever encountered. We took the children to the Eden Project in Cornwall UK [...] 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 [...] |
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