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Thursday, 15 September 2011
Friday, 11 February 2011
More, More, More!!
- pigment cards
- slate and heart photoframes, heart mirrors, and scented hearts by Gisela Graham
- a new selection of angel hearts and also their new collection of greetings cards
- and more new Carrie Elspeth jewellery
Saturday, 24 January 2009
Giving it a Go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ladies from the Tangent Club in West Cornwall have fun, and try out the art of making Corsages.
Mark went along and gave a talk and demonstration on how to make a corsage for a wedding or dinner dance.
Mark went along and gave a talk and demonstration on how to make a corsage for a wedding or dinner dance.
The ladies had a selection of flowers and foliages to use, including cymbidium orchids, china grass, wax flowers and more...........
All the ladies present thought making a corsage was easy but once Mark started to wire all the floral bits up and tape the stems they then changed their minds.
The photos shows the ladies having ago, the wine was flowing to help calm their frustations.
Comments included: " wow never knew that amount of work went into something so small." " how do you do that again!!!!!!!" " Thanks Mark for being a very understanding wish I had your patience"
Friday, 23 January 2009
Dutch keep seized orchids
Orchids on route for last year’s Chelsea Flower Show 2008 that were confiscated by Dutch customs are now being housed permanently in a Dutch botanical garden.
Dutch judges have ruled that the super rare flowers, which were seized in May 08 because the proper importation paperwork had not been filed, be kept at a botanical garden.
Henk Vonk from the National Service for Implementation of Regulations of Confiscated Goods in Holland said his department had received a decision from the Public Prosecutor of Justice to donate the eight seized orchids to a botanical garden.“They are in good condition and one is flowering,” he said.
The Ghost Orchids and Wild Banana Orchids were seized by Dutch customs officials in mid–May because of tight European regulations restricting the trade and movement of rare and endangered species of plants.
While an export licence from the Cayman authorities had been secured, the plants did not have an import licence – a requirement that had been introduced just weeks beforehand.
The news that the flowers were surviving, and even flourishing, was met with joy by Kirkland Nixon, president of Cayman’s Orchid Society.“At least they’re in safe hands. I don’t think they will exploit them or try to commercialise them,” he said.
The eight orchids are estimated to be worth a total of $80,000.
He was also pleased to hear that one of the plants was flowering, and wished the Dutch luck in trying to propagate the seeds of the Ghost Orchids, something the Orchid Society here has been unable to do.
“We’ve been trying to propagate these endangered orchids from seeds for years… We’ve gotten them to bloom and to pollinate, but for some reason, this plant is sterile.
I don’t know why.“Maybe the Dutch will have more luck than we did,” Mr. Nixon said.
The orchids were collected in February 2006 from land off Newport Avenue, which was cleared for low–cost housing, and had been growing at the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park for a few years before beginning their interrupted journey to the Chelsea Flower Show in England last year.
It would have been the first time the British public would have had a chance to view the Ghost Orchids on English soil.
The Botanic Park had not intended to bring the orchids back to Cayman following the flower show. It had planned to donate the orchids to Kew Gardens, and auction them to raise money for the Blue Iguana Recovery Fund to a winner who could visit the flowers there.
Instead, when the flowers got stuck in Holland, the sponsorship of two orchids growing in the park in Cayman were auctioned, with the winner receiving a holiday to the Cayman Islands to visit the Botanic Park and see their sponsored orchids.
There is little likelihood of a repeat of last year’s debacle with the plants, according to the Botanic Park’s general manager, Andrew Guthrie, as no plants are being sent from Cayman to the 2009 Chelsea Flower Show.
“This year the exhibit is completely different. We’re not shipping plants or anything else from Cayman. Everything is being sourced in England or Europe.
“Shipping plants from Cayman to Europe or from Miami to Europe is a monumental nightmare and we don’t want to do that again,” Mr. Guthrie said.
As well as losing the rare orchids to Dutch Customs, the Cayman exhibit last year ran into further trouble when British Airways lost a catboat it had shipped from Cayman three times. The boat was eventually located just in time for the show.
Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park is home to 10 of the 26 orchid species recorded in the Cayman Islands, and three of these are found nowhere else on earth.
Source: caycompass.com
Orchids on route for last year’s Chelsea Flower Show 2008 that were confiscated by Dutch customs are now being housed permanently in a Dutch botanical garden.
Dutch judges have ruled that the super rare flowers, which were seized in May 08 because the proper importation paperwork had not been filed, be kept at a botanical garden.
Henk Vonk from the National Service for Implementation of Regulations of Confiscated Goods in Holland said his department had received a decision from the Public Prosecutor of Justice to donate the eight seized orchids to a botanical garden.“They are in good condition and one is flowering,” he said.
The Ghost Orchids and Wild Banana Orchids were seized by Dutch customs officials in mid–May because of tight European regulations restricting the trade and movement of rare and endangered species of plants.
While an export licence from the Cayman authorities had been secured, the plants did not have an import licence – a requirement that had been introduced just weeks beforehand.
The news that the flowers were surviving, and even flourishing, was met with joy by Kirkland Nixon, president of Cayman’s Orchid Society.“At least they’re in safe hands. I don’t think they will exploit them or try to commercialise them,” he said.
The eight orchids are estimated to be worth a total of $80,000.
He was also pleased to hear that one of the plants was flowering, and wished the Dutch luck in trying to propagate the seeds of the Ghost Orchids, something the Orchid Society here has been unable to do.
“We’ve been trying to propagate these endangered orchids from seeds for years… We’ve gotten them to bloom and to pollinate, but for some reason, this plant is sterile.
I don’t know why.“Maybe the Dutch will have more luck than we did,” Mr. Nixon said.
The orchids were collected in February 2006 from land off Newport Avenue, which was cleared for low–cost housing, and had been growing at the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park for a few years before beginning their interrupted journey to the Chelsea Flower Show in England last year.
It would have been the first time the British public would have had a chance to view the Ghost Orchids on English soil.
The Botanic Park had not intended to bring the orchids back to Cayman following the flower show. It had planned to donate the orchids to Kew Gardens, and auction them to raise money for the Blue Iguana Recovery Fund to a winner who could visit the flowers there.
Instead, when the flowers got stuck in Holland, the sponsorship of two orchids growing in the park in Cayman were auctioned, with the winner receiving a holiday to the Cayman Islands to visit the Botanic Park and see their sponsored orchids.
There is little likelihood of a repeat of last year’s debacle with the plants, according to the Botanic Park’s general manager, Andrew Guthrie, as no plants are being sent from Cayman to the 2009 Chelsea Flower Show.
“This year the exhibit is completely different. We’re not shipping plants or anything else from Cayman. Everything is being sourced in England or Europe.
“Shipping plants from Cayman to Europe or from Miami to Europe is a monumental nightmare and we don’t want to do that again,” Mr. Guthrie said.
As well as losing the rare orchids to Dutch Customs, the Cayman exhibit last year ran into further trouble when British Airways lost a catboat it had shipped from Cayman three times. The boat was eventually located just in time for the show.
Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park is home to 10 of the 26 orchid species recorded in the Cayman Islands, and three of these are found nowhere else on earth.
Source: caycompass.com
Thursday, 22 January 2009
Quick Flower Tip of the Month.
Floral Foam
Do you Know how to prepare it correctly?
If not this is how..................
1.You should first fill a bucket with clean fresh water and added cut flowers food (keeps bacteria at bay and help the flowers complete their life cycle.
2. Place your piece of floral foam onto the surface of the water, and allow the foam to take up water at its own pace. The foam will get darker once its soaked.
DO NOT AT ANY TIME PUSH THE FOAM UNDER THE WATER SURFACE.This will only cause an air lock inside the piece of foam and thus result in flowers not living out their full life.
(Top Tip: for arranging flowers in floral foam,use a knife it will be easier and better for the flowers when placing them into the floral foam)
3. Once you have made your arrangement please remember to keep it topped up with water daily.
4. Never reuse a piece of floral foam it will contain lots of holes, dry areas, will not soak up water fully again, and will by then be a breeding ground for bacteria and this will affect the life of your new flowers.
Hope this helps you make better floral arrangements.
Happy flower arranging
Mark
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