Archive for May 3rd, 2009

Wedding Flowers

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

Wedding flowers are believed to play a very important role in the wedding reception decorations. These wedding flowers add that pinch of fragrance to the entire surroundings at the wedding venue. The best wedding flowers that are usually preferred are the spring wedding flowers.

Spring is the season which brings along with it a variety of beautiful flowers. Popular spring colors are lavenders, baby blues, soft greens and pale yellows. Tulips and daffodils are the most popular choices for spring. Tulips come in all possible colors and the Daffodils’ sunny colors blend with all color combinations. Wedding is a special occasion and you can make it even more special by using the best spring wedding flowers to decorate the wedding venue. The other exclusive spring wedding flowers are sweet peas, magnolias, lilies, primroses, daisies, roses (pale colors), strawberry (fruit and leaves), lily of the valley, iris, pansy and hyacinth. (more…)

Spring Rose Care

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

Spring rose care will help get your roses off to a more enjoyable blooming season. Modern roses are the longest blooming of all shrubs. Many varieties start flowering in mid-late spring, with recurrent bloom cycles through late fall. Unless you are looking to grow absolutely perfect blossoms for competitive exhibition, roses actually require much less work than you may usually read about. Carefully chosen varieties of shrub roses will - with no summer spraying - yield a full season’s bounty of blooms.

Spring Rose Care - Timing

Spring rose care should be accomplished after winterkill (if any) has become apparent, but before the new leaves unfurl. There are several ways to figure this. I’ve found it is most successful to work on the roses just as the Forsythia starts to bloom, rather than slavishly following the calendar. (more…)