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.
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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 ?”
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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:
Okishima & Simmonds created a living Poinsettia dress for Poinsettia Day.
Floral stylists Chikae Okishima and Jessica Simmonds (based in London) were commissioned to create a stunning haute couture floral dress with cut poinsettias, for Poinsettia Day 2015 (Saturday, the 12th of December 2015).
The result is spectacular, as you can see in these photos !
Without a doubt the dress is worthy of a Princess! The two designers normally style wedding ceremonies and fashion shoots with plant life. For this commission, they created a gown with over 350 freshly cut stems / leaves of red, variegated and cream poinsettia and graduating these colours from the different Poinsettia types, from the bright crimson of ‘feelings Glitter’ through to ‘feelings White’.
Stars of Europe
The project was initiated by Stars for Europe, an EU-funded PR initiative for Poinsettias across 16 different countries and the images from the photo shoot in this blog post were taken at Hill Brothers nursery in Chichester.
The project aims to inspire the public and to change the image of this festive plant. The spectecular dress & photos certainly seem to attract the attention of press (The Times, Daily Express).
Poinsettia in Perfume, Home Fragrance and Skin Care
They are very, very few products in Perfumery, Home Fragrance or Skin Care built around a Poinsettia fragrance or even perfume variants with a poinsettia note.
The olfactive profile of the Poinsettia Flower is a pine-like terpenic scent, frequently with a mushroom note, as they are prone to a fungus.
Florist’s Tip
How can you make a make cut Poinsettia last ?
Dip the cut ends in hot water for 20 seconds, then immediately in cold to seal the milky sap. Then, place them in water and they will last up to two weeks!
This technique was used during the photoshoot to make the flowers last.
Join Florists across the UK & Europe in this coming Saturday with #PoinsettiaDay on social media!
Poinsettia History
The plant is popular at Christmas in floral displays for its red and green foliage. Its common English name comes from Joel Roberts Poinsett, who introduced the plant to the United States in 1825.
In the 16th-century in Mexico, the legend goes that a girl (usually called Pepita or Maria), too poor to provide a gift for the celebration of Jesus’ birthday, was inspired by an angel to gather weeds from the roadside and place them in front of the altar of her church. Crimson blooms sprouted from these weeds and became beautiful poinsettias.
From the 17th century, Franciscan friars in Mexico included the plants in their Christmas celebrations.
It is said, that the star-shaped leaf pattern symbolizes the Star of Bethlehem, and the red color represents the crucifixion of Jesus.
Poinsettia Quick Facts:
Here are a few ‘quick facts’ from the RHS
Common name: Poinsettia
Botanical name: Euphorbia pulcherrima
Flowering time: December to January
Planting time: Spring (for repotting)
Height & spread: Up to 60cm (2ft) height; 30cm (1ft) spread
We then spotted the “Iris” pendent lamps by Sebastian Scherer of Neo/Craft: lights that are reminiscent of ‘soap bubbles’. The inspiration for Iris were bubbles blown by children. It comes as no surprise then that they seem to have a magnetic draw for visitors, wanting to touch and explore their semi-translucent form.
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The soap bubble lights take the form of a permanent bubble: perfectly spherical, smooth and beautifully iridescence like oil. The iridescence is achieved through a new coating on the glass being used by the designers.
Glass Bubbles
‘Glass Bubble’ seemed to be a recurring theme during the London Design week: the ‘curiosity cloud’ installation and Lee Broom’s ‘Podium’ vases.
We hear that 35,000 votes were cast for 389 blogs in different categories. This is an amazing number of votes that were cast ! Thank you for your help to make PAIRFUM one of the shortlisted blogs.
We really appreciate it.
Next Steps
Below are the next key dates:
FRIDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER – SHORTLISTS ANNOUNCED
THURSDAY 1ST OCTOBER – JUDGING DAY
WEDNESDAY 28TH OCTOBER – AWARDS CEREMONY
We look forward to the awards evening and will keep everybody updated.
We are honoured that the PAIRFUM Home Fragrance Blog has been nominated for the 2015 Amara Interior Blog Award in the category ‘best luxury blog’. The Amara Interior Blog Awards are the premier awards ceremony focused on writing about Interiors.
Considering the PAIRFUM News & Blog was only started in January of this year, we were surprised and delighted that it is already being recognised on the wider ‘blogging’ stage, when we were informed that our followers-fans of PAIRFUM ( passionate ‘PAIRFUMISTAS’ ) had nominated us for the award. We have enjoyed writing about perfumery, home fragrance, skin care and associated topics and treasure all of the comments we have received from our readers, fans, customers and friends. What delighted us most was the encouragement everybody gave us and it confirmed to us that not enough is known about the subjects the PAIRFUM blog focuses on. We enjoy sharing our expertise and improving the understanding of perfumery, home fragrance and skin care.
Thank you for nominating us and we would be delighted to receive your vote for our new blog.
Now that we are nominated, we would would be thrilled to win it, but obviously this will be impossible without your support and help. Last year, a total of 11,000 votes were cast and there is a long way to go but every vote counts and your voice is heard !
Everybody is welcome to vote. In the age of a global internet, it does not matter where you are based, whether you are on holiday or at work. You may cast your vote from anywhere.
But wait, … do you have friends & family that are interested in INTERIORS ? Maybe they would enjoy voting too ? Why not send them a link to the PAIRFUM Home Fragrance Blog ? Looking at the timeline below, the window for all your friends and family to cast their vote is open until the end of September.
Tweet about the award, Instagram about it and share it on Facebook.
‘Thank You’ for your support.
Blog Categories
Explore the awards website that has been set up for the 2015 Amara Interior Blog Awards. It has many different categories and you may find other blogs you find worth reading:
BEST ARCHITECTURE BLOG
BEST DIY & CRAFTS BLOG
BEST ORGANISATION BLOG
BEST DESIGN INSPIRATION BLOG
BEST INTERIOR DESIGNER BLOG
BEST FASHION INSPIRED BLOG
BEST COLOUR INSPIRATION BLOG
BEST INTERIOR MAGAZINE BLOG
BEST AUSTRALIAN INTERIORS BLOG
BEST USA INTERIORS BLOG
BEST EUROPEAN INTERIORS BLOG
BEST INTERNATIONAL INTERIORS BLOG
BEST LUXURY BLOG
BEST NEWCOMER BLOG
BEST DESIGNED BLOG
Apart from the website, you can also follow the voting on Twitter and Instagram:
Below is the 2015 timeline for the vote:
MONDAY 8TH JUNE – NOMINATIONS OPEN
NOMINATIONS CLOSE – FRIDAY 31ST JULY
MONDAY 10TH AUGUST – VOTING OPENS
VOTING CLOSES – FRIDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER
MONDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER – SHORTLISTS ANNOUNCED
JUDGING DAY – THURSDAY 1ST OCTOBER
WEDNESDAY 28TH OCTOBER – AWARDS CEREMONY
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