Back with flowers

Last week I was focused on a memorial service for my father who passed away in July.

The family and friends get-together went well and I do enjoy arranging flowers. FTD email says that flowers show heartfelt emotion - that may be true, or they are pretty and cheerful and more of that is needed at a sad time. It turns out that I am not that good at multi-tasking after all - or max out at a certain number of tasks maybe. I feel like a delinquent blogger and have a stack of new books to read too.

*Quick history - my father was on hospice under my care for almost 16 months after a sudden metastasis of ‘benign prostate cancer following his third CoV injection (cranky face). Pomegranate peel and Zelenko style Basic Stack supplements helped keep my dad going for a while I think even though he didn’t actively want any obvious diet changes or special cancer care. More about it in this post: Hospice - dying with dignity, at home. Pros and cons - and chocolate porridge. (Substack)

Gladioli, cosmos, roses and alstroemeria.

Roses and cosmos.

Wild picked Queen Anne’s Lace, roses, sunflower and pinkish seed pods from a commercial mix.

Rose, greenery from a Wedding flower shrub and two pinecone like blossoms that fell with a branch from the top of a Tulip Tree in the backyard. They opened when I put them in water but the tree leaves dried up quicker.

Pottery sculptur by my mother and Asian lily, sunflower, and Queen Anne’s lace-wild picked.

Lunaria, money plant dried seed pods. The flowers are small magenta colored and add early spring color to random spots - wind blown seed.

Lilies and a map of Antarctica on the wall - my father was interested in travel and watched documentaries about it in his last months.

Spiky blue delphinium are at the top with a red spray painted Queen Anne’s Lace (Why? - they drop pollen quicker than other cut flowers - they aren’t as long lasting as commercial bouquets are expected to last), purple aster, yellow and white daisies and white alstroemeria, some goldenrod and a white Queen Anne’s Lace too maybe. Our canine visitor likes flowers too, but snacks are better. This flower arrangement was a gift.

A local truck garden for annual bouquet flowers was the source of this bouquet of zinnias, dryable straw flowers, and a feathery celosia.

The lighting was not great in a few of those pics. Florist was something I considered as a career path when I was a teen but went into genetics instead. Flower colors have some interesting genetics too. See the story of delphidin and the quest for a blue rose. - The pic (news article) suggests we should just enjoy delphinium instead and stick with red, pink, yellow and etc. roses.

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