Focus On Flowers
During the holidays, it is interesting and fun to decorate with natural materials.
During this period there were great advances in the techniques available to reproduce botanical art—in fact, all artwork.
We sometimes see a plant with an elongated, smooth and usually skinny, trunk with a round mop of foliage at the top.
Lilac and lavender, roses and annual sweet-peas have distinctive and memorable scents.
Certain flowers bloomed at specific times in the Marian calendar, and monks, friars and nuns used them to meditate on and celebrate key events in Mary’s life.
As well as recent widespread interest in edible flowers by foodies, there also seems to be a related trend that involves bartenders putting flowers in drinks.
Japanese Beetles love roses, hollyhocks, crepe myrtle and hibiscus especially, and I dislike them with a passion for ruining my flowers.
When the United Nations met for the first time after World War II, each of the 50 members found one blossom of this symbolic rose in their hotel room.
Henry Ward Beecher wrote that "flowers have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings."
If you are planning a Valentine's Day party, either for a crowd or for one special person, I have an idea for a floral centerpiece that is easy yet charming.
Moya Andrews is a Master Gardener and a member of the Bloomington Garden Club in Bloomington, Indiana. Learn more »
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