Foliage is often overlooked when big the blooms of roses and peonies dazzles us with their colour & shape. However, Florists overlook it at their peril! Foliage will always be the backbone or backdrop of any stunning bouquet, giving it a background framework, structure, movement and texture.
Foliage does not have to boring and can be selected from branches of beech, photinia, white leaf, willow, eucalyptus birch or euonymus.
‘Herbs’ can also be used to adds interest and fragrance to a bouquet through the inclusion of mint, oregano, sage, lavender or rosemary.
‘Stems’ offer another source of inspiration to the florist and these are some examples: cow parsley, breezy grasses and stems of trailing jasmine.
Here are links to blog posts with further information during the British Flower Week website:
The two common names for the British Astrantia are ‘Hattie’s pincushion’ and ‘masterwort’. This begs the question “who was Hattie ?” and “how did Astrantias get into her pincushions ?”
Here are two links to the British Flowers Week website and the posts about Astrantia.
Today marks the start of British Flower Week! A time to celebrate the nation’s flower industry and all the British flowers we love. Day One marks the celebration of the Oriental Lily.
At present, the vast majority of flowers bought on our high-streets are from large-scale commercial growers abroad.
New Covent Garden Flower Market, launched the campaign to highlight British flowers instead.
This annual celebration of seasonal, locally-grown flowers and foliage is uniting the UK’s flower industry and to sparking interest in where our flowers come from.
During the week the focus will be on the best of British cut flowers and the very best independent British florists to show just what British flowers are made of!
Right now, British cut flowers are enjoying a resurgence in demand. Just as interest in locally-grown food has grown, people’s interest is resurgent in locally-grown, freshly cut flowers.
Up until the 1970s, the only flowers you would ever see in the Flower Markets and nurseries came from flower farmers across Britain. Today, the vast majority of flowers in your high street flower shop will have been grown by large scale commercial growers in Holland, South America and Africa and routed through the Dutch auctions.
Flowers Should Be Fragrant !
Here at PAIRFUM, we fully support the British Flower Industry, as we believe in locally produced goods.
Equally, as perfumers we continuously regret seeing flowers being grown for the beauty at the expense of their fragrance.
Lillies are a prime example of how wonderfully scented a floral bouquet can be.
External Links
British Flowers Week is bringing British cut flowers back.
Here is the link to the website set up of this special week. Enjoy browsing the site:
Here at PAIRFUM we always look to create to the most beautifully perfumery products.
However, it is one of the paradoxes of a beautiful fragrance that it may need to contain some ingredients which by themselves are unpleasant but when added to the creation lend it a depth or warmth that is quite surprising.
Hence, as perfumers we are literally experience daily Aristotle’s famous quote:
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Collagen levels dwindle as we grow older, causing wrinkles and a loss of firmness in skin.
In Japan, eating collagen in an attempt to stay young, is not uncommon.
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