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Showing posts with label bouquet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bouquet. Show all posts
Thursday, 31 August 2023
FFF610 - IT'S SOUTHERN SPRING
Spring is blooming early this year: Dutch iris, little field carnations, freesias, stocks, daffodils, and jonquils.
Thursday, 6 July 2023
FFF602 - A SOUTHERN BOUQUET
The flora of South Africa and Australia is quite distinctive with quite a few rich botanical families that provide a diverse and amazing bouquet of flowers. The Proteaceae (banksias, grevilleas, waratahs) and Myrtaceae (eucalypts, bottlebrushes, titrees, lillipillis) especially are well represented.
Australia and New Zealand once formed part of a huge southern land mass now referred to as Gondwanaland, whereas northern hemisphere continents were once aggregated into Laurasia. Gondwanaland and Laurasia began to disaggregate about 160 million years ago. Prior to this time, the southern hemisphere land masses and India were connected into Gondwanaland, while North America, Europe and much of Asia formed Laurasia.
South Africa, Madagascar, India, South America, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Australia and various other fragments broke away and drifted northwards, leaving Antarctica behind. Australia and South America were the last major land masses to separate from Antarctica, Australia beginning slowly about 90 to 100 million years ago and establishing a deep ocean passage some 30 to 40 million years ago.
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Thursday, 19 January 2023
FFF578 - SUMMER BOUQUET
A Summer bouquet of flowers from our garden. There are roses, daisies, feverfew, coreopsis, lantana, geranium, crocosmia, statice, and jasmine.
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Thursday, 9 June 2022
FFF548 - BIRTHDAY BOUQUET
They are from the North, but wonderful roses they are nevertheless: Offered in our Southern Winter, their message is quite clear: Red for love, pink for joy and white for secrecy...
Thank you!
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Thursday, 2 September 2021
FFF508 - SPRING BOUQUET
An early Spring bouquet from our garden. You can see anemones, freesias, bluebells, stocks, primulas, calendulas, marigolds and eau-de-cologne plant foliage. As we are becoming hemmed in by development in surrounding properties, our garden is becoming a refuge for many birds and insects seeking shelter and food in it. Large numbers of bees visiting have put me of the mind to construct a hive or two in the back!
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Thursday, 16 July 2020
FFF450 - FLORIST FLOWERS
It is a very civilised thing to be able to go into a florist shop and buy fresh flowers on any day of the year. Flowers not only make fantastic gifts, but they are also indispensable in one's own home as a means of cheering people up and beautifying one's interior spaces.
These days when COVID-19 is wreaking havoc around the world, a bouquet of fresh flowers delivered from the florist to a special person can be a very wonderful gesture that raises sunken spirits and uplifts a melancholy disposition.
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Thursday, 21 May 2020
FFF442 - WINTRY BOUQUET
I guess we are fortunate in Melbourne as our Winters are never heavy, with the seasonal cold and rain quite tolerable. If it snows in the City it is first page news, so we're lucky there too. This generally means that whatever the season, fresh flowers are available locally (even if some of them have been forced to blossom - the Spring bulbs, for example).
This wintry bouquet has violet-coloured Dutch irises (Iris × hollandica), creamy white Alstroemeria (Alstroemeria × hybrida), and orange-pink Asiatic lilies (Asiatic lilies - Lilium asiaticum).
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Thursday, 20 September 2018
FFF356 - SPRING BOUQUET
It's the Spring Equinox here in the Southern Hemisphere and I'm posting today a bouquet gathered from our garden. You can find in it the following flowers:
Freesias, anemones, bluebells, daisies, marigolds, stocks, ixias, rosemary, bergenias, lilies, sparaxis, canola, red valerian.
The fragrance is delicious and it certainly brings Spring indoors very effectively.
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Freesias, anemones, bluebells, daisies, marigolds, stocks, ixias, rosemary, bergenias, lilies, sparaxis, canola, red valerian.
The fragrance is delicious and it certainly brings Spring indoors very effectively.
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Thursday, 12 November 2015
FFF208 - GONDWANA BOUQUET
The flora of South Africa and Australia is quite distinctive with quite a few rich botanical families that provide a diverse and amazing bouquet of flowers. The Proteaceae (banksias, grevilleas, waratahs) and Myrtaceae (eucalypts, bottlebrushes, titrees, lillipillis) especially are well represented.
Australia and New Zealand once formed part of a huge southern land mass now referred to as Gondwanaland, whereas northern hemisphere continents were once aggregated into Laurasia. Gondwanaland and Laurasia began to disaggregate about 160 million years ago. Prior to this time, the southern hemisphere land masses and India were connected into Gondwanaland, while North America, Europe and much of Asia formed Laurasia.
South Africa, Madagascar, India, South America, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Australia and various other fragments broke away and drifted northwards, leaving Antarctica behind. Australia and South America were the last major land masses to separate from Antarctica, Australia beginning slowly about 90 to 100 million years ago and establishing a deep ocean passage some 30 to 40 million years ago.
Australia and New Zealand once formed part of a huge southern land mass now referred to as Gondwanaland, whereas northern hemisphere continents were once aggregated into Laurasia. Gondwanaland and Laurasia began to disaggregate about 160 million years ago. Prior to this time, the southern hemisphere land masses and India were connected into Gondwanaland, while North America, Europe and much of Asia formed Laurasia.
South Africa, Madagascar, India, South America, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Australia and various other fragments broke away and drifted northwards, leaving Antarctica behind. Australia and South America were the last major land masses to separate from Antarctica, Australia beginning slowly about 90 to 100 million years ago and establishing a deep ocean passage some 30 to 40 million years ago.
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Thursday, 1 May 2014
FFF128 - SOUTHERN MAYDAY BOUQUET
Here in the Southern Hemisphere, May is the last month of our Autumn and the time when chrysanthemums are at their best. Our May Day bouquets therefore look like this, with lots of chryssies, statice and daisies.
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Wishing you all a very Happy May Day!
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012
FFF10 - PROTEA NERIIFOLIA
A bouquet of Protea neriifolia x susannae "Pink Ice" for today. Protea neriifolia is part of an ancient plant family, the Proteaceae, which had already divided into two subfamilies before the break-up of the Gondwanaland continent about 140 million years ago. Both the Proteoideae and the Grevilleoideae occur mainly in the southern hemisphere. This is the hardiest of all proteas, and well suited to low maintenance, low water use gardens. These spectacular blooms are useful in floral arrangements, fresh or dried.
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