Say It With Some Aloha! Are you familiar with the colorful, often fragrant world of Hawaiian flower tropicals ? Have you seen Bird of Paradise blooms outside your window, or plucked a Plumeria blossom from a tree for tucking beside your ear? One doesn’t need to live in the tropics to use these exotic blossoms […]
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Hawaiian Flower Arrangements
Sweet Scents Of Spring Arrive With The Lily Of The Valley
A Nosegay of Lily of the Valley One of the joys of this time of year is the scent of the beds of Lily of the valley, Convallaria majalis. The fragrance is embedded in my memory from early years. These small, milky white bells arrayed long the delicate stem give out a slightly musky perfume […]
Wedding Flower Advice
“As much as I didn’t like my flowers at the time, I have with time, learned two important lessons. 1) don’t be talked into flowers that you don’t want, and write down those you do and 2) the flowers aren’t what make the day. As much as I love flowers, I’d rather have bad flowers […]
Wedding Review
I didn’t realize that I had not posted the promised report on the wedding. It went beautifully, truly did -I’m not just saying that for a public audience. The flowers were too much work for two hands (I accomplished it, but wouldn’t recommend it), and the bridesmaid’s bouquets turned out to be exceptionally lovely. God blessed […]
Wedding Flowers: Some Books to Help
The wedding flowers turned out beautifully, the only thing wanting was a pair of extra hands or two….. because doing the floral work for a wedding is a very big job! I worked like crazy, and I’ll have to say more about the details later, but I wanted to recommend two of the most helpful […]
April Wedding Flowers
I found a picture that shows the lantern centerpiece idea. My own interpretation will use a couple moss covered mounds to pick the flowers into. Since the wedding date was moved to april, theoretically the flower arrangement should become easier. Lantern centerpiece Here are the flowers available for April arrangements:AlliumArtichokeAlstromeria Babies Breath Bells of Ireland […]
