Does anyone know if any information is available on the schedule for the 2005 festival? I've done a little searching on the web but only find schedules for 2004...the dates for 2005 are posted...April 15 - June 5, 2005.
I'm also looking for info on tours with the WDW Horticulturalists...I know the regular "Behind the Scenes" Garden Tour is suspended during the festival.
TIA for any helpful hints.
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Friday, December 8, 2006
flowers for my wedding
Well, I am doing most of the flowers for my wedding. The boutonnieres (sp?) and the corsages will all be done in silk flowers, as will the bridesmaids and the flower girl's flowers. The only bouquet I'm not doing is my own, which will be done in fresh flowers by a florist. Also, I am *renting* the table centerpieces from the same florist - she just happened to have some made up which match my wedding colours (they're silk also).
We are saving a small fortune by doing the flowers this way - I only paid for the cost of the silk flowers, which are much cheaper than fresh flowers, even though I bought the best quality & most realistic-looking silks I could find.
I would never have had the courage to do this, by the way, if I hadn't taken several floral design courses first. If you are fussy about your flowers, you may want to have them done by someone professional, as you might not be happy with your own efforts (I'm my own worst critic).
We are saving a small fortune by doing the flowers this way - I only paid for the cost of the silk flowers, which are much cheaper than fresh flowers, even though I bought the best quality & most realistic-looking silks I could find.
I would never have had the courage to do this, by the way, if I hadn't taken several floral design courses first. If you are fussy about your flowers, you may want to have them done by someone professional, as you might not be happy with your own efforts (I'm my own worst critic).
Monday, November 27, 2006
Flower anatomy
Flowering plants heterosporangiate (producing two types of reproductive spores). The pollen (male spores) and ovules (female spores) are produced in different organs, but the typical flower is a bisporangiate strobilus in that it contains both organs.
Flower evolution
While land plants have existed for about 425 million years, the first ones reproduced by a simple adaptation of their aquatic counterparts; spores. In the sea, plants -- and some animals -- can simply scatter out little living copies of themselves to float away and grow elsewhere. This is how early plants, such as the modern fern, are thought to have reproduced. But plants soon began protecting these copies to deal with drying out and other abuse which is even more likely on land than in the sea. The protection became the seed...but not, yet, flowers. Early seed-bearing plants include the ginkgo, conifers (like pines), and fir trees. But the first fossil proof of actual flowers appears only 130 million years ago.
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