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Now you may think there’s only a limited number of uses for flowers but my class at school have come up with a number of different ones which I’ll share with you over the next few weeks, but before I continue, have you taken advantage of the offer from the Cyprus Online Flowershop yet? Don’t forget to do it before the end of November – 15% off orders over 40 euros. Click here to visit the shop and just enter the code READNSAVE15NOV at the checkout.

OK so what did my class want to do with flowers? Well, on the local forum there’s an article about a young girl in the mountains whose family is struggling with the recession and the poor girl is not being fed properly. We wanted to help and so a girl suggested we buy a bunch of flowers from the local florists and split it into individual flowers, design a tag telling people what we are doing, to attach to the flower, and then sell them individually for five euros each. They’ve worked out that for a bunch of decent flowers such as roses or gerberas they can make between 100% and 400% profit, giving this to the worthy cause. I laud their enterprise, next is will they manage to pull it off? I’ll let you know!

Today I needed to visit a florist for a bouquet for a friend who has just had a baby. I’m a long way from Cosmea Gardens so I thought I’d just pop into my local florist for a bouquet and was horrified at what I was offered. It seemed I’d come in too late for a good selection of flowers for the bouquet and so the young florist offered me, well I’m not sure what they were!! They were meant to be artificial flowers and I suppose under the trades descriptions act they were definitely artificial but as to what flower they were meant to be, well that’s anyone’s guess.

In these days of new materials that can mimic virtually any texture, why do we get artificial flowers that look like they were cut from plastic sacks. even the grandly named and priced ‘silk’ flowers leave a lot to be desired. At school, the children I teach make much better attempts at roses, carnations and daffodils out of crepe paper so surely someone can come up with an artificial flower that actually looks like a flower!!

Well, until that day, we will just have to go for the good, old-fashioned real flower that looks like a flower, feels like a flower and smells like a flower. Come to think of it, there’s no contest really!