Gerbera

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Gerbera jamesonii - gerbera

Jyväskylä 27.9.2008

So wird es nicht aussehen... ;) Aber so in der Art. Die Rattenkugel soll rosa sein (wer also weiß, wo ich rosafarbene Rattenkugeln mit einem Durchmesser von 10 cm finde, immer her damit) und das Blumenwasser unten sollte nur gaaaaanz leicht rosa sein (mir ist das die Pflanzenfarbe ein wenig aus der Hand gerutscht).

Das war nur ein Versuch... Aber dabei wird es wohl bleiben.

Der linke Rosenkopf ist zu klein für das Glas. Davon werden auch ein paar auf den Tischen stehen, wobei die Kugeln ganz rechts nicht grün sein werden sondern rosa. Es gab nur gerade nichts anderes als dieses grün und zum probieren reicht es erstmal.

Wahrscheinlich werden wir Rosen und Gerbera nehmen. Wenn ich Glück habe, dann gibt es zu dieser Zeit noch schöne Ranunkeln, dann nehmen wir die anstelle der Gerbera. Das Blumenwasser ist in den Vasen auch ein wenig zu dunkel, bis auf ganz links, dass ist okay/hell genug.

So, für Tipps/Vorschläge bin ich offen. Nur an meiner Meinung, dass ich keine Gestecke will, wird sich wohl eher nichts ändern... ;)

Blumige Grüße

Sommerschwester

Feuerwerk

Gerbera

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dried up daisy hanging beside my window.

I thought this was one of the most perfect flowers I've ever received. I gushed about it when BW and I were down at Granville Island last week and, after I walked away, she completely surprised me, buying it with the rest of her bunch.

You'd think that a nurse responsible for the lives of human patients would be able to care for a little flower. My fate, however, must've been carved in stone when my little bean plant wouldn't sprout in Kindergarten for Mother's Day. This was further confirmed when both of my clone plants rotted during my biotechnology course in university. (Some students lost one of their two, but I was the only one who killed both.)

If Alex buys me flowers, we have the understanding that I admire them and he takes care of them. Even then, me just looking at them seems to make them die faster. So I won't even tell you how long my beautiful bright red Gerbera lasted... but it was loved dearly, nonetheless!

This wedding was just recently (a few days ago) hosted at the Waterman Grill in Providence, RI.  The chocolate brown with white was something wanted by the bride, (we jokingly showed her the brown ribbon with a leopard print ribbon underneath...  which actually didn't look that bad).  Upon first sitting down with us she had said that none of the other florists she had visited could figure out what she wanted... as you can see we did:

Anyways, this arrangement is for a real gardener and plant lover.  We used a ceramic pea pod container and filled it with a large variety of plants, such as Stars of Bethlehem, Tritoma, Lavender Roses, Tuber Roses, Cabbage, Gerbera, Adriatic Lilies, Rose Hips, Pink Spray Roses, and Rosemary.

JUST BECAUSE ...

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"Gerbers In Water Glass", ©Jill Rosoff 2006, 6" x 4 1/4", $45.00

This was the very first painting I did of a Gerber Daisy.  I've always loved them, their incredibly rich colors, and the flower that  bursts at the top of the impossibly long stem. I was so intrigued with the teeny little petals surrounding the center of the flower. The paper was from a pad of postcard-sized paper I bought years ago to take on a vacation with a traveling paint kit, and that I didn't end up using.  Until I got home, that is!  More Gerberas to come.

Nichts desto trotz finde ich dieses Prachtexemplar schon recht gut getroffen. Ich überlege nur, welcher Art das Motiv ist? Aus Mutters Blumenkästen erinnere ich mich trübe, dass es sich um eine Gerbera handeln könnte....

Mag das wer bestätigen?

Way back in July we did a fairytale wedding at Astors in Newport.  We made about fifteen of these table centerpieces and "altar" pieces using roses, hydrangeas, lillies, orchids, stock, pink larkspur, and various greens.

the dinner to celebrate jss establishment since 45 years ago brought most of us back together again, thinking that its laoshi's retirement. the gerbera was not a door gift, but a gesture of the teammate who wants to make our day happy. a collage was made to our laoshi by our senior, with our many hideous photos of the past, and notes from the present, that i wrote with much difficulty. coach and laoshi looked the same, as if they have never aged. its the constant exercise, i think, that made them looked young.

and its heart warming seeing all of them again. met some teachers, some left, some stayed. some remembered our faces, not our names. dinner was like a ge-tai with the auctions going on in the noisy background. 20,000SGD, i think was the highest bid for one of the paintings. the dinner was a drag too. half the time, all was complaining when the food will come. because 3 hours into the dinner, only 3 out of the 9 dishes were served. nevertheless, photo-whoring started as soon as all settled down, in the midst of catching up. :)

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Are flower names capitalised? And why do I want the plural of gerbera to be "gerbera"?

Kirkon edusta on siis vielä hetken aikaa täynnä värikkäitä gerberoita, niin punaisia kuin kirkkaan keltaisiakin. Kirkon edusta on hetkeksi muuttanut muotoaan, ihan hyvällä tavalla.

Kaiken arkisen kiireen keskellä näky pakottaa katsomaan itseään. Tuulessa lainehtiva kukkameri antaa lupauksen levollisuudesta ja visuaalisesta toiseudesta, jossa mieli rauhoittuu. Visio onkin aikamoinen vastapaino kaupungin keskustalle, jossa arkkitehtuurin suoraviivaiset ja kulmikkaat muodot valtaavat näkökentän. Sen vastapainoksi kasvien pyöreän pehmeät muodot luovat hyvää vastapainoa. Samalla herää ajatus siitä, voisiko suomalaisten suurten asutuskeskusten kaupunkikuva olla himpun verran inhimillisempi? Muodoltaan pehmeämpi ja värimaailmaltaan kylläisempi? Ei niin laatikkomainen?

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