Mother's Day is really a fun holiday because it's busy but not crazy, Valentine's busy. Plus, it's hard to go wrong when there are so many great flowers this time of year.
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For your viewing pleasure, more not so good photos of some really good Mother's Day
flowers.
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Our beloved maidenhair fern gives everything a little woodland feel.
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Here's a close up.
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We had dogwood and columbines!!!!!!
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And springtime all around us.
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Plus, Wendy's been doing this interesting thing where she carefully inverts the tulips and makes them look like some strange and beautiful flora.
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At first I thought of it as a mild form of flower torture, but now I look at it as helping the flower along in it's unfolding. Always a surprise, never quite sure what we'll find inside.
Hi, beautiful designs! Do you use any techniques for extending the life of the maidenhair fern? Thanks!
ReplyDeleteLaurie - We buy ours from a local grower in Portland so it's pretty fresh. We just do the same we do with most fleurs - good clean water, some nourishing food, a little love, and a cool space.....but ferns can be tricky. My experience they either last a long time or they're gone in a day so try leaving your fern out for a day and see what happens.
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