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Halloween-Thanksgiving- Christmas-When? Halloween in August, Thanksgiving in September, and Christmas in October. I am a stickler for my store displays and actually, I don’t have the Halloween spirit in August anymore than I have the Christmas spirit in October. It usually doesn’t sail into my mind until after Thanksgiving, so the store stays in the […]
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It is a short season; but this is dahlia time. I seem surrounded by these beautiful dahlias-everywhere I look, every bouquet I send out, and every wedding bouquet I make. Magnificent, beautiful dahlias are everywhere and… I am smitten. If you want a bouquet like no other, then take advantage of making a splash no
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The Language of Flowers reads of many flowers for translating your feelings of love. The rose being the most popular to declare love; but we forget yet another that is just as high on the meaning list. The perfect Tulip. The red tulip was the all powerful ‘to declare your love” with the black center
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The Shamrock Corsage & Shamrock Leaves My latest craze and new corsage or lapel. Fresh, shiny, and long lasting galax leaves are an old fashioned leaf traditionally used surrounding a Victorian, violet nosegay. Make your own shamrocks for pennies with my ‘how to make a shamrock’ on Pinterest. Or….if you can’t be bothered just call-I’ll
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I always anticipate seeing the nearly 4500 Olympic ceremony bouquets as they usually incorporate meaning and significance by choosing flowers according to some tradition and culture of the host country. The 2012 Olympics in Great Britain took it a sustainable step further by requiring all the flowers be grown and locally designed in the UK,
Valentine’s Day Gifts With the approach of every heavy retail, buying time; I always think “here we go”, and here we go again with Valentine’s Day 2014. A time of in your face ads, promises of quality, and shelves of cheap imported gifts-including flowers. The big three gifts of this day are predominantly jewelry, flowers,
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So many ask me about this red plant that now is the largest selling plant by the millions every year. Native to Mexico and Central America, poinsettias, grow wild up to nearly 10 feet blooming in the winter. The red ‘flowers’ botanically, are really not flowers at all, yet are just red leaves surrounding the
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Everyone loves what has been named bittersweet for autumn decorating. Surprisingly, it is not the original bittersweet botanically; but yet a Solanum genus of Nightshade was first designated as such; which is not a cousin, relative, or even lookalike. Through the centuries names get coined or interpreted and now to us what we know
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Now that your garden is in full glory it’s time for autumn, and soon they will be gone. This lament has been going on for 100’s of years but no generation has done more for celebrating nature than the Victorians. They were enamored with it, obsessed over it, and came up with ingenious ideas to
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This years theme was “Seasons Of The Hudson Valley” for the displays in the Horticulture building at the Duchess Fair. After much deliberation and thought I came up with a life size Mother Nature dressed in the 4 seasons and with the added feature of wings. The second display was a twist on the 150th
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