All you need to create a romantic Valentine’s Day is a little imagination and the help of your local florist. A dozen red roses remains the classic Valentine’s Day favorite. However, many women report that they adore roses in other colors just as much. There are hundreds of colors to choose from. The choices are endless and it’s easier than ever to select a rose that is as unique as your sweetheart. [ read more ]
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Did you know the air inside our homes and businesses is 10 times more polluted than the air outside? How can you cleanse the air to keep your home a safe sanctuary? A simple and inexpensive answer is to fill your home with houseplants. [ read more ]
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Pollination takes place when pollen lands on the stigma of a plant. It then travels down to the ovary and it’s here that the ovules are fertilised. Most plants have flowers with the male and female parts present in each flower. Mostly, plants rely on insects, such as bees, to take the pollen from the anthers to the stigma.
Red means passion, flame, blood and it’s also considered the color of love. It’s an active and temperamental color. The red flower symbolizes the accomplished and deepest love and respect, desire and vitality. Being an intense color, red is stimulating the human system, accentuating the high spirit. By offering a red rose or any other red flower, you’ll say: “I love you” or “I’m in love with you”, “Would you marry me?”.
White is a clean relaxing color. The white flower suggests moral purity, perfection, innocence, satisfaction and respect too. By offering white flowers, you’ll transmit feelings like: “I thank you”, “With respect and affection”, “Forgive me”, “You are a real mother/sister/brother”.
Tempting: The flower gardens in Da Lat City attract locals and tourists alike.
As more farmers turn from traditional crops to flowers, they are finding a global market for their products and more money in the bank. Khanh Chi reports.
Like many farmers, an annual income of VND100 million (US$6,305) was previously unthinkable for Bui Van Loi of Da Lat City in the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) province of Lam Dong. But the burgeoning flower industry has turned around the lives of many farmers who have replaced low yield rice crops with flowers.
Flowers are a part of our lives. We are welcome in this life by flowers, celebrate the most important moments with flowers and we retire surrounded by them.
In the vase or pot, in the bouquet or arrangement, in our places, garden or parks, the flowers give an emotion, are a reason for us to be happy, melancholy, pleased, content or full of respect. One thing is for sure, the flowers are the sincere messengers of our feelings. The flowers express by their color, flavor, shape, thoughts that we are not able to voice: “Thank you!”,”With respect!”, “Forgive me”, “I love you”,”I’ll never forget you”. The flowers have their secrets and are also meaningful. All you have to do is to know them:
Rose
The roses are charming, but very sophisticated and pretentious flowers too. There are some tricks to prolong the rose’s life:
Cut the stem at a very sharp angle under the water and than let the water to flow over the stems for 3 minutes.
Soften the base of the stem into mint oil before put in the vase.
Tulip
The tulip’s availability, as a cut flower, is from 8 to 10 days. The tulip doesn’t bear the water privation and the warmth. For a better hydration, you need to cut the white base of the stem under the water and put it in a cold, without draught space, into cold and fresh water. To maintain the water’s freshness and the flower’s natural colors, attach some small branches of Tuia. You can also put a metal coin. To avoid the tulip’s declension, you have to fill the vase with water or to wrap the flower into a paper, because the stem will turn towards the light.
This is generally possible using the flower nutrition, as liquid or granules, (the flower nutrition’s dissolution has to be made into another vase, not directly into flower vase, in warm water) and, on the other hand, using the chemical solutions to destroy the bacteria that is speeding up the putrefaction process.There are several techniques of keeping the cut flower’s life:
All roses need some attention going into winter. Winter weather in zones 6 and below can really challenge rose bushes, particularly the hybrid teas. Shrub roses are hardier and can pretty much fend for themselves, but the hybrid teas and other modern hybrids are a little fussier. Here are some tips for winter rose survival, starting with zones 6 and below: Difficulty: Average Time Required: 20 – 40 Minutes Per Rose Here’s How:
1. Stop feeding and pruning your roses around the end of August, to discourage tender, new growth that will suffer from winter damage.
2. After the first frost, thoroughly water the soil around your rose bush. Once the ground freezes the bush has to take care of itself, so give it a good soaking going into winter.
3. Remove all fallen leaves to prevent diseases and insects from overwintering.
4. After a couple of hard freezes, mound 6-12 inches of compost around the crown of the plant, to protect the roots and the graft union where the rose species you are growing is attached to a hardy root stock. The graft should be at or just below the soil surface. In a mild winter, you could also circle the rose with wire and stuff this cage with leaves or mulch.
5. Climbing roses are at risk from strong, drying winds. To protect the canes of canes of climbers, either wrap the canes together bundling something like straw on the outside for insulation or remove the canes from their trellis or support and lay them on the ground. Then tie the canes together and secure them to the ground with landscape pins. Protect with a layer of mulch.
Probably we ask questions like:What florist s do? Florists make flower arrangements & sell cut flowers & arrangements.
Their specializations: Most florists are generalists.
Preffered education: GED or high school diploma, especially with CTE program
Certification & licensing: Certification available
Getting ahead: Begin working as helpers. Eventually they can manage a store or open their own business.
Skills & knowledge: Design sense, working well with customers, flower arranging, business sense
Where they work: Retail flower shops, flower wholesalers, grocery stores
Job outlook: Good
Look for work: Link to job banks and other job search resources
Earnings: Usually in the $15-33,000 range