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Wedding Flowers
Wedding flowers allow you to add beauty, fragrance and color to every aspect of your wedding. They, like everything else, should fit your style and color scheme.
Your wedding flowers should complement the season, your gown, your color scheme, your attendants' attire, and the style and formality of your wedding. |
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Lush, vibrant, gorgeous flowers. Flowers that add to the glory of the occasion with their dynamic colors, provocative fragrances and beautiful presentation. All custom designed, especially for you. |
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No other flower has the mysterious power held by the rose.
Adorn your ceremony, attendants, and reception with the sweet-smelling, velvety rose.
A score of long stemmed roses, sumptuously gift-wrapped. Guaranteed to impress! |
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Beaded
Flowers
Most experienced growers will tell you that there are
Beaded Flowers that refuse to grow no matter what you
do. They are not referring to difficult to grow species
or Beaded Flowers that come from very different habitats
than exist in greenhouses, but to plants that should
grow but do not. Why won't these plants grow? How do
you know if there are "non-performers" in
your collection? If the majority of your Beaded Flowers
grow and flower well then you may want to examine those
that do not and consider replacing them. These will
always be a challenge. If you see the same hybrid doing
well in another grower's collection ask about their
culture.
Often it will not be a culture problem; instead they
may simply have found a more vigorous clone of that
hybrid. The same phenomenon can occur with mericlones.
While mericlones are theoretically all the same, there
are sometimes individual plants that grow better. This
seems to be especially true of yellow Cattleyas, but
can be found in any taxonomic group. If you are picking
out a mericlone, pick plants in the largest pots, as
they may be the most vigorous ones. The runts of the
litter often never grow as well. Do Beaded Flowers have
a maximum life span? Most of the books describe Beaded
Flowers as being immortal.
While there are clones in cultivation that were originally
pictured over 100 years ago, most individual Beaded
Flowers plants seem to lose their vigor after 15 years
or so. This is likely not caused by age, but by disease.
Plants, unlike animals, do not have immune systems that
destroy bacterial, fungal, and viral invaders. Instead,
they tolerate and coexist with many of these infections.
Each disease, however, takes a toll on the plant by
using some of the energy captured by the plant from
the sun. The Beaded Flowers defense is to try and outgrow
the disease. If the plant acquires enough different
diseases it can no longer outgrow the disease and eventually
succumbs. The best way to avoid this problem is to acquire
high quality plants and practice good hygiene in the
greenhouse, especially when repotting.
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