17-JUL-2017
Birthday bouquet
Not for me, but a friend who was celebrating his 80th
birthday on the weekend. All the tables were decorated
with these flowers and I was asked, with many others, to
take home the arrangement after the celebration. So
lovely to see flowers in mid winter I was very appreciative of their offer!
11-FEB-2017
The Centrepiece
My favourite in this bouquet
See the next two images for more of the bouquet
11-FEB-2017
Various Proteaceae
From the bouquet of wildflowers from the southern hemisphere
11-FEB-2017
Southern wildflower bouquet
Wildflowers from the southern hemisphere in a bouquet
they last for absolutely ages in a vase, excellent value!
11-FEB-2017
Glowing Embers
Catching the sunlight on the roses when they were fresh, unfortunately they
never lasted the whole week. I have no idea of their name, but to me
they looked like glowing embers when the rays of the sun shone on them.
11-FEB-2017
Birthday Bouquet 2017
Sorry Ev if you're watching today... (he doesn't like orange roses)
but I had to take a few photos while the roses were fresh. Dick
remembered that my birthday is tomorrow and arrived home from the shops
with this new bouquet! There are 10 of these surrounded by those
tiny white blooms... AND the cool change arrived during the night
we have had a delightfully mild day, good for being outside again!
Plenty of my garden roses are shriveled and burnt, but they'll
recover. Some little fairy wrens accompanied me in the gazebo
when I enjoyed an iced coffee - sorry no photos of them, they're far
too spritely for me!
THANKS EVERYONE FOR THE HB WISHES, MUCH APPRECIATED!
11-JAN-2017
Anniversary roses
A bit like "coal to Newcastle" a saying we have in Australia
giving me roses when we have 500+ growing in the garden.. nevertheless
it was a special gift & much appreciated. Friends of ours
celebrated their 53rd anniversary yesterday, and he gave his
wife a dozen red (scentless) roses. Unfortunately florist
roses usually are scentless, and one always hope red roses
to be full of fragrance.
11-JAN-2017
King Protea
Proteas are grown not far from where we live, they like sandy soil
and there is an abundance of sandy soil south-west on the way
to the wine growing area called the Southern Vales. One of our
close neighbours has a protea business and they used to have
a bench with bunches of proteas for sale, but we bought these
on the way back from our wedding anniversary luncheon, just 3
stems to fill the heaviest vase we have in the house.
10-MAY-2016
Mother's Day Bouquet 2016
Dick surprised me with this bunch of red roses, and they have
a slight fragrance, often the cut flowers are scent-less.
This is a couple of days late, it has been too dark and stormy
to take a photo before this, the dark red didn't help.
13-FEB-2016
Mountain Lily
Lilium auratum from Japan is a popular lily grown and exported to all parts of the world.. apparently someone local has the gift of
how to grow them well, they are in supermarkets sold in bunches
and Dick bought a couple of bunches of these and some matching
long-stemmed carnations as part of my birthday present yesterday.
Unfortunately they have a very strong scent when they open and
they usually get moved into a room and the door is shut as neither of us can stand the scent for very long. I love
the colours of this particular species, perhaps I should try
growing some and enjoy them in the garden instead of a vase!
PS.. thank you for all your kind birthday wishes, much appreciated! Von
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07-SEP-2015
Leucospermum
From South Africa & belonging to the proteaceae family, this flower is related to the Australian Banksia and has similarities.
Don, let me know if I'm wrong...
24-AUG-2015
Portrait of an arrangement