Tuesday, April 6, 2010

A bouquet for a day

My intention was purely to deadhead spent-flowers so that I could carry the routine thrips insecticide spraying.

TIP 1: It is one of the best practices to deadhead all blooms before spraying as the tiny droplets of the spray solution often miss the inside of the blooms. Inside the many and thick layers of petals, always is the best home for thrips.

TIP 2: Usually I would quickly toss the flowers away in a plastic bag and close it at once so the thrips clinging to the flowers would have no chance of escaping to thin air. It is indeed alarming that 1 single adult thrips can produce up to 200-300 of eggs. A garden can easily be infested by merely few dozens thrips.

Lovely distraction

But my intention was distracted as I was cutting the flower one by one. Instead of putting them in a plastic bag like I always do, I hold them in a bouquet fashion on my left hand. My thought was I’ll soon get a plastic bag on my way to the other side of the garden. It is always better to put away the flower in the plastic bag as soon as it is cut but I was slightly lazy that day.

I was captivated by how beautiful the bouquet was as I added more and more flowers and later cancelled the idea of putting them in a plastic bag. Well, at least until I was done savoring the beauty and taking shots of the masterpiece.

TIP 3: If your garden is free from thrips or its heavy infestation, using your spent flowers as cut flowers can be a pretty good idea. The flowers do not have to be half open as needed to like true cut flowers, they can be full blown or almost spent. This way, you can have longer bloom time in the garden but also a bouquet for a day.

Least distracted

The splash of colors and my 9-months old daughter sleeping in the background.



"Roses are red my love, violets are blue, sugar is sweet my love, but not as sweet as you"

Bobby Vinton - Roses Are Red

38 comments:

  1. I should follow this blog long time agooo...hu..hu...

    ReplyDelete
  2. This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  3. I should thank you for inspiring me!

    ReplyDelete
  4. hantar bunga dalam malaysia

    ReplyDelete
  5. kunjungan malam nich, gan.. nyambangin postingan agan yang bermanfaat banget ini. hhehe

    ReplyDelete
  6. thanks nih gan, artikelnya sangat membantu sekali. bagus untuk bacaan sehari-hari.

    ReplyDelete
  7. membaca postingan diatas patut dijadikan motivasi buat saya atas prestasinya, makasih banyak gan atas sharenya, di tunggu share selanjutnya salam

    ReplyDelete
  8. Terimakasih atas informasinya :) semoga sukses slalu .. Ditunggu informasi menarik selanjutnya :) senang berkunjung ke website anda, terimakasih.

    ReplyDelete
  9. Teriamakasih infonya. semoga bermanfaat buat kita semua. salam sehat!! Informasinya sangat menarik sekali.

    ReplyDelete
  10. semoga dapat ebrmanfaat dan menjadi inspirasi.. terima kasih ya gan infonya semoga makin jaya..

    ReplyDelete
  11. bagus sekali informasi yg agan berikan sangat menarik dan bermanfaat thanks gan, ijin share berbagi info :)

    ReplyDelete
  12. infonya sangat bermanfaat sekali gan, makasih. beritanya bagus dan sangat menarik sekali untuk di baca.

    ReplyDelete
  13. semoga dapat ebrmanfaat dan menjadi inspirasi.. terima kasih ya gan infonya semoga makin jaya..

    ReplyDelete
  14. bagus sekali informasi yg agan berikan sangat menarik dan bermanfaat thanks gan, ijin share berbagi info :)

    ReplyDelete
  15. semoga dapat bermanfaat buat kita semua. Amin . . . . artikelntya sangat bagus sekali. Senang sekali berkunjung ke website anda.

    ReplyDelete
  16. selamat datang bulan desember!! semoga bulan ini membawa berkah dan membukakan pintu kesuksesan serta kebahagiaan untuk kami semua. Amiin,

    ReplyDelete
  17. Terimakasih atas informasinya :) semoga sukses slalu .. Ditunggu informasi menarik selanjutnya :) senang berkunjung ke website anda, terimakasih.

    ReplyDelete
  18. infonya sangat bermanfaat sekali gan, makasih. beritanya bagus dan sangat menarik sekali untuk di baca. Ijin share ya gan, thanks..

    ReplyDelete
  19. terima kasih atas informasinya. Sukses ya..!! Dan Terimakasih banyak telah berbagi informasnya, Semoga Makin Keren selalu untuk info beserta websitenya,,

    ReplyDelete
  20. Terimakasih, artikelntya sangat bagus sekali. Senang sekali berkunjung ke website anda. semoga dapat bermanfaat buat kita semua. Amin . . . . :D :D

    ReplyDelete
  21. bagus sekali informasi yg agan berikan ini. Jelsa sekali sangat menarik dan bermanfaat. thanks gan!! Thanks banget!! ijin share berbagi info :)

    ReplyDelete
  22. Terimakasih atas informasinya :) semoga sukses slalu .. Ditunggu informasi menarik selanjutnya :) senang berkunjung ke website anda, terimakasih. sekali lagi thanks.

    ReplyDelete
  23. jelaaaaassssss sekali sangat menarik dan bermanfaat.

    ReplyDelete
  24. semoga bahagia lebih dari aku. amin, amin, AMIN

    ReplyDelete
  25. must say that overall I am really impressed with this blog. It is easy to see that you are passionate about your writing. Looking forward to more updates..!!

    ReplyDelete
  26. Postingan ini sangat bermanfaat, memberikan informasi mengenai hal yang belum diketahui. Semoga postingan ini bisa memberikan motivasi untuk selalu ingin tahu.

    ReplyDelete
  27. Hadir kembali berkunjung dihari yang indah dan cuaca yang cerah ini, terimakasih teman karena selalu berbagi info menarik yang ter up to date, keep blogging!!

    ReplyDelete
  28. terima kasih atas informasinya. Semua beritanya terlihat menarik untuk di simak, mohon kunjungi juga website kami, kami tunggu. Terimakasih.

    ReplyDelete
  29. Terimakasih gan, keep blogging. templatenya bagus ini, pengen deh punya blog kayak gini.

    ReplyDelete
  30. Nice share nih juragan.. keep posting, semoga postingannya selalu memberikan banyak manfaat untuk banyak orang. amiiinnn.. ^_^

    ReplyDelete
  31. Terimakasih atas semua artikel bermanfaat yang sudah anda publikasikan melalui blog yang menarik ini, saya tunggu postingan selanjutnya, have a nice day, kawan :)

    ReplyDelete
  32. nice post, kawan.. jangan lupa kunjungan baliknya ya?? saya tunggu, terimakasih. Hhihihihihihi

    ReplyDelete
  33. pagi, kawan... Nice post nich, keep posting ya?? Saya mau blog walking lagi.. hehe

    ReplyDelete
  34. selamat malam, uwaaah... websitenya bagus nih gan, bikin kalem hati, keep posting gan. .Saya tunggu postingan menarik lainnya di website ini. Thank you

    ReplyDelete