Vikram kuamr asked:


 

Did you know that giving flowers and flower delivery has a long and interesting history? Ready Flowers Australia reports that while we can’t know for sure, many are convinced that the tradition of giving flowers goes back even as far as prehistoric times. Evidence of the very early recognition by humans of the power and beauty of giving gifts of flowers exists, as archeologists have found flower remnants in some very, very old grave sites. (Don’t worry, at Ready Flowers Australia we use only the freshest flowers – nothing prehistoric!)

 

During the early beginning of recorded history we again have evidence of flower giving, for example in Egyptian hieroglyphics, in very early Chinese writings, and also in the Ancient mythology of the Greek and Roman civilisations. (Whether there was any flower delivery in these days is something that Ready Flowers Australia don’t know – those chariots would probably have shaken a nice arrangement of flowers into something resembling a salad.)

Ancient history aside, perhaps the real beginning of flower giving as we know it today was in the Middle Ages, where flowers where given as tokens of affection by lovers. In a conservative society, Ready Flowers Australia has heard that the particular flowers in the flower delivery could act as a secret message from the giver to the recipient. Flower delivery as an early form of the text message, then, with perhaps a little more subtlety and a lot more beauty!

 

Also in the Middle Ages came the custom of giving flowers in the theatre. There arose a belief that flowers on the stage (whether or not the result of a flower delivery gone wrong) were bad luck, and that only the giving of flowers to the leading lady (who Ready Flowers Australia thinks could well have in fact been a man) would bring good luck rather than bad to the production.

 

Then in the 1700s, the idea of flowers-as-message was developed further in Sweden, where a king of theirs brought back the idea to Sweden from what was then Persia (now Turkey). Allegedly the practice of encoding messages was in Turkey so developed that it was used by the military. Flowers were sent as messages, because if they were intercepted by the enemy it would be very unlikely that the enemy would suspect any kind of message at all. (At Ready Flowers Australia we guarantee that if our flower delivery is intercepted by the enemy, our delivery people will never talk!)

Since the 1700s, beginning in fact in Victorian times, many, many books have been published on the meaning of flowers, and Ready Flowers Australia can say with confidence that is where many of our modern customs today in giving flowers come from (for example, red roses for lovers). Of course, rules were meant to be broken, but for certain occasions in flower delivery tradition is the best way to go (roses are a perfect example of this).

 

Well, at  Ready Flowers Australia we hope you have learnt something about flowers and history from this. Think about it next time you arrange a flower delivery!

 

 



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wordsnob asked:


My home (built 1917) had well-known gardens back in the ’20s and we want to restore them. Does anyone know what sort of plants or flowers would have been common then? And which will keep the gardens looking colourful & lush in at least 3 of the seasons? (I’m in the Great Lakes region)

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I heart beets asked:


you know flowers are a common photographic subject, and i’ve seen some great images, and some bad ones, but what are the key characteristics of a great flower image?

I personally like macro shots of flowers with a less distracting background. But would like some different ideas.
Thanks so much.

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Jules Sims asked:


Want to make your plot’s summer plants last all year? Ok, the easiest way to beget your patch plants inside and dry them.

It is best to cut your plants in the morning hours after the dew has evaporated from the plants. Once cut, group stems into bunches with rubber bands (absolute rubber bands work best) and detach them from the sunlight as presently as promising.

There are trusty developmental period which are best for bitter plants for drying. This could be very actuality for different plants or even different cultivators of the same factory. In universal, it is best to choice immature plants (ones that are not completely open) since plants maintain to open during the drying means. If you tool a flower at the time that it looks sharpen, it will resume to open while drying, parting you with a flower previous that ‘whole period’. Most people choice plants too postponed. For example, have you ever seen a sweet dried rose? If you genuinely look at it, the flower is still literally stopped. Avoid harvesting plants too mature in development. Such flora would commonly shed ahead drying and will not view up well in arrangements.

We deal exact picking and upward recommendations for each flower we grow. Just click on any dried flower name on any of our lists to take a wealth of given information with films!

With only a few exceptions, we air dry all our plants. We unfussy droop flower bunches upside down on line (over two miles of it is stretched in our circa 1860 barns). The barns offer great conditions: 1) darkness; 2) very good airflow; 3) cool updrafts; 4) precise (usually) moisture levels. Once you have cut your plants, it is important to amputate them from the sunlight as shortly as promising. This, along with drying in the murky, is the most important cause in maintaining good incline.

Suspend a 1/2-creep-diameter horizontal shaft or cheep from the ceiling. If binding hooks into your ceiling or stockade is not an option, use tripods or two high-backed chairs to hold the raft. A bent paper clip makes a perfect hanger for your bunches. Put newspaper or a ditch cloth on the flummox under the lynching bunches to grasp falling plants, seeds, and petals. Hang bunches far enough apart to permit good air circulation.

The drying treat takes from 10 to 20 days, depending on the lodge. When dried, the stems should bark. You must hardship the plants for irony. Dissect one or two, and make steady the plants” entrails are thoroughly dry.

Some plants, such as delphiniums, keep their influence better if dried rapidly near sources of cozy air such as a warmer. Large, many-flowered blooms such as dill, fluffy grasses, and Queen Anne’’s line, should be dried upright, not execution upside down.

Silica-gel drying is done in shallow, hermetic, plastic (or tumbler) containers or trays. I dry many plants at once with a 10- by 18-shuffle hermetic plastic container. Yours hardship not be that big, but make loyal that the flora aren’t crowded. Spread the flora out, face up, on a 1-edge (lowly power) bed of crystals. Carefully dollop or touch more silica on top pending you’ve completely enclosed the plants with at least another shuffle of crystals. Drying plants with track-petal structures, such as daisies, facedown is another system, but my results have been duplicate using both approaches. To dry flora facedown, coin a small load for the flower control, place the flower start facedown on it, and add silica over the flower pending it is covered. Flowers can be almost affecting, and because analogous kinds of flora dry at the same tariff, you may hope to group akin blooms in the same container. Seal the container, and don’t move it for three to four days.

Remove delicate blossoms very warily. Shake or brush off the crystals lightly with a velvety performer’s paintbrush. Leaving flora in desiccant too long makes them very fragile, so eradicate flora right away once you’ve determined that they’re dry enough?

Sand must be very superior, fresh, dry, and preferably brackish unbound. Sifting is recommended to amputate coarse grains and strange particles. Rinsing the sandpaper in water numerous period to remove any soil is also recommended. Damp smooth can be dried in a stove by insertion in shallow pans and baking at 250 degrees for 20 to 30 minutes. Be really to use only flora in their summit and manner them swiftly to thwart flaccid.

To dry with sandpaper, place a creep or two of smooth in a container; dipper away a small total of sandpaper to form a depression on the rise; place the flower beginning upright in this depression and push the smooth in and around the external of the flower to buttress it. Next, scoop a little polish into your hand and tolerate it to trickle in a tenuous gush around each petal. Start with the external petals and work within row by row, allowing the sandpaper to size up likewise on all sides of each petal so its stand and identity are not altered. Flowers dried with sandpaper are fragile so be very chary when removing them from the polish. Notice that flora must be stored in a powerful sachet to shield the petals from breech.

The latest and longest method to dry flora is to use a combination of silica gel and a microwave oven.

With the use of a microwave, you can now dry your flora very suddenly. Flowers should be gathered at their zenith or, moreover they will turn auburn. Use any of the drying agents (silica gel, sand, borax) in a container cavernous enough to insurance the flower. Leave a 1/2 crawl stem on the flower, and place it face up on a 1/2 inch layer of drying agent. Carefully pepper enough agent to swathe the flower, and place it in the microwave along with a small bowl of water. Do not remove the plants from the agent immediately, but set the tangent for some hours. Listing below are some period for drying flowers in a microwave.

By using air drying and other methods also, many flowers can be preserved for year-spherical enjoyment. Plan now to embrace some flowers in your plot for drying, and prove adjoining fields and road sides throughout the summer and drop for more dried factory supplies.

Routine dusting can be accomplished using a genuine feather scarf or locks whack dryer on it’s lowest venue.

Last: Storing and Enjoying Dried Flower We advocate wrapping the flowers in newspaper and insertion them in a cardboard box. Do not gather the box containing the dried flowers where it is unusually damp (some basements) or very dry (some attics). Also, a lot of people think you should never collect dried flowers unlikely (it would be way to cold). This is purely not stanch. Temperatures are not important. In fact, a garage can be an archetype place for storing dried flowers. Actually, if mandatory air heated your home, the ideal place to warehouse drying flowers would be in a past shop away from the dry warmth.

In universal, dried flowers should stay out of guide sunlight while you enjoy them in their absolute state. This will reduce departure over time. We also advocate not to place dried flowers during unnatural air boil registers. This awfully dried air is very hard on dried flower form (causes shattering).

Suggestion for use of dried flowers would involve wreaths, swags, sheaths, bouquets, and sprays. Simply execution dried flowers in a span can be very appealing. Also, placing clusters of bunches in a basket, as while you just came in from a garden, is most attractive.

Caution: if you do stow your dried flowers further, make sure you keep them from small rodents and insects (a few mothballs will work).

Finally, I should to say that drying flowers can be addictive! Before long, wreaths will adorn all your doors, and swags will hang from every partition. And they’ll all have come from your own garden. Talk about an extended period! You’ll rapidly see why dried flowers are often called “everlastings”.



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GUMMY-DINO asked:


My flowers are being eating alive by some kind of inscets. I don’t know what kind of inscets are eating my flowers but, I just to get rid of them before they eat the rest of flowers and plants. I want to know if there is a natural way to get rid of the bugs because, I really don’t want to use chemicals.

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Krista QQ(www.123giftfactory.com) asked:


Flower Arrangement with Basket





 

Flower arrangement with basket is one of a expression form of flower arranging art, with important function of formal flower arrangement, it has strong practicability and commercial value, also portable. As using a support of basket, it could create various unique art styles different from other kinds of flower arrangement; it possess creative features of itself as same as according with common rules of art creation.

 

There are many kinds of flower baskets, there are wicker, bamboo, grass, plastic and metal material baskets; Basket forms have turned to air and wall type included from floor and tabletop type, therefor flower baksets also include hanging baskets and wall hanging baskets. At present, there are high body basket, round flower basket, square wineglass shape basket, line shape basket, smooth mouth basket and broken mouth basket, handle basket or handleless basket, boat shape basket and crescent hanging basket, suspension single basket and ringer flower basket with several flower baskets infolded. In a word, the diversity of the flower basket provides most advantageous conditions for flower basket enriches people’s life and beautifies the enviroments. But we should admit, different flower baskets have different styles and various uses, such as wicker baskets, have rigid quality, heavy color, uninhibited bold style and usually have large engraved patterns in body; Bamboo baskets,

with fresh color and modest shine, are the most useful flower baskets presently; Grass baskets have soft quality, gentle colors and natural shines, embodied with bright colors and exaggerated figures, if them could matched with the enviroments well in the modern rooms.

 

The above three kind of flower baskets, all are flower baskets weaved by hand and are pure natural material basket commonly, thus comtain strong emotion elements. At this point, plastic baskets and metal baskets are inferior to natural material flower baskets.

 

With harmony colors and rich layers, flower arrangement with basket is natural and lively, can display flower arranging’s line beauty and a kind of rhythm sense. Regular flower arrangings with basket used on etiquettes, need shapely flowers, regular flower branches and full patterns; Lyric flower baskets used to decorate scenery and mood, should choose flowers with flexible branches and picturesque flowers, this kind of flower arranging could use your imagination freely, ramantic and changeble.

 

The adornments of the flower basket are very important, usually ribbons and greeting cards are familiar. Also we could choose different adornments for different celebration occasions, as we could choose ballons, toys and candies for childrens, and choose cakes, candles or greeting cards for birthday greeting.

 

 

Along with the stand levels of people’s material and cultural life improving, the flower basket will welcomed by more and more people, it will play a more and more important pole in people’s life beautification.

 

Flower Arrangement with Cylinder





 

Flower Arrangement with Cylinder is a kind of flower work which use cylinder and tubular flower vessel. There are metal, glass, ceramic, plastic and bamboo materials cylinder receptacles, but during the history of flower arrangement in our country, the using of bamboo canister for flower arranging are more popular. In Japan’s flower arrangement ikebana, flower arrangement with cylinder has taken a very important place. It is said that the flower arrangement with cylinder was introduced into Japan from China in 8th century to 11th century.

 

 

The flower arrangement with layered cylinder can adopt a two-layer bamboo cylinder with a hole upside and a window downside, which having unique features and natural flavors. Also the flowers could be arranged in a “downing” shape upside and a “uping” shape downside, smaller upside and larger downside, it called “two-layer flowers”. So it could not only display the dynamic balance beauty between the flowers’ size and wave of up and down, also show the features of the flower vessel. In order to match the height of the bamboo cylinder’s up and down layer, hanging shape flowers and vine shape flowers are used commonly, but it’s unnecessarily to use two or more kind of flower materials with flowers on.

 

 

It’s should be noticed that the flower branches upside layer and downside layer should sprayes out to the right and left side separately, also attentions should be paid on the control of flower materials’ quantity, length and directions, as to achieve a balance between up and down, thus make the whole work brisk and interesting, also balanced.

 

 

Except for the flower arrangement with layered cylinder, there are single-cylinder, combined cylinder(also called high-low cylinder or vertical-across cylinder), hanging pattern and boat pattern flower arrangement.

 

Potted Cut Flower

 

 

Potted flower arrangement refers to assemble potted plants and flowers with branches art and make them as a harminious whole, it’s a larger type of plant artwork decorated in yards and gardens, it could be placed on the two side of the garden aisles, or putted on the balcony, wall corner and sidewall, it’s natural and beautiful. For example it’s very suitable to deck our indoor halls with a cut flower setted with a small foliage potted plant.

 

For one hand, potted cut flower could saving the time of scissoring branches and leaves through the using of the various plants planted in garden, afterwards matched and interspersed some flowers based on the composed picture, so as to make it into a finished whole; Second, the viewing time could be extended much as long as to replace few fresh flowers; Thirdly, based on seasonal, holiday and guests welcoming demands, new works could be recreated by the recombination or partly adjustment on the original potted flower, in this way materials and time could be saved, also could break the singularity of flower varity in family, and creat surprised episodes constantly. 

 

When we plan to arrange a small potted flower, we usually put the small potted plant in a untransparent container, aside from a beauty exterior, the container should contains water and have large mouth thus an amount of flower branches could be arranged in. If a larger potted plant adopted, pls notice that there should have a shelting piece for the flower pot, thus make the whole work natural and attractive.

 



 

The picture above named “My Beloved Hometown”, the golden pachystachys flowers in which is a potted cut flower.



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pam_natedog asked:


I just moved to Jacksonville, florida and i have a screened in porch. The porch faces a wooded area so it causes alot of shade. i would really like to get some flowers to liven the area up a bit.

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Kaily K asked:


I’m trying to find some good plants, flowers and bushes to fill flower beds along the front side of our house. We don’t really want to spend to much money. Something simple with color. If you have any suggestions please let me know…thanks!

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Lady Luck asked:


My friend is planning to grow flowers for a friend. We’re growing them from seeds and outdoors in April. What kind of flowers would be able to grow in a month or so and are not high-maintenance? Please include the time it took for them to blossom!

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new name asked:


I live in southern Idaho .I already planted some bulbs in one dog’s grave ,/ They have not or did not come up so I’m a little worried about them. They are in Scruffy’s grave for those of you from Pets-Dogs) and now I’m looking for plants/flowers that will come back year after year. They will be both Scruffy’ss and Liberty’s memorials. It’s get below freezing in the winter here so we have to fact that in this.

Does anyone have any great ideas of what I can plant in their memorials that will come back year after year and get bigger too? One idea I’m playing is rose bushes. Does anyone know of plants that have beautiful flowers to remind me of them at their graveside?I’m open to suggestions.Can anyone please help me out here?

Thank You for all the suggestions with this!

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