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1. Look for fresh and healthy foliage; and flowers that are evenly colored. 2. Beware of blooms that are too tight or too open. For maximum vase life, a protea is often picked when they’re just starting to open. 3. Speed and care are of the essence. It’s possible to extend a protea’s life by several days if they are processed quickly and placed into water as soon as they arrive. 4. Re-cutting protea stems is a very important part of their care since the stem tip may become blocked and incapable of transporting water up to bloom. Cutting ¼” off the base of stems can increase the vase life of protea by up to 45%. 5. “Clean and fresh” takes on new meaning with protea. Your buckets, containers, vases, knives, clippers, and other equipment used in processing must be sanitized. 6. Carefully remove all the leaves from the bottom half to two-thirds of each stem. As a rule, remove any foliage that will be below the water level to prevent it rotting in the water. 7. Water quality has a dire...

Emma's pretty bouquet of white flushed pink peonies, pale pink germinis ( mini gerberas) and roses. Very simple, modern and very pretty.  Bridesmaids carried pretty posies of mixed pale pink, mid pink and cream germinis. I love these for their cheerful simplicity. Men wore simple buttonholes of pale pink rose with green leaf. And for the mums, a pretty wedding themed corsage of pale pink rose with lisianthus  flowers, tanacetum and a little delicate foliage. Stunning tall centrepieces using pink gerberas and germinis with lisianthus, tanacetum and mixed foliages in a cocktail vase decorated with a twist of ivy. The venue is East Horton Golf Club. A closer look at the centrepiece flowers, pretty, cheery gerberas and germinis with lisianthus and tanacetum in mixed pinks and cream.The mix is very summery and absolutely beautiful. The top table was decorated with a design of pastel pink germinis and lisianthus with a little cream tanacetum and delicate foliage ...

The inaugural Arroyo Seco Weekend wrapped up on Sunday. Goldenvoice, the promoter of the event called this two-day festival “multigenerational,” geared toward families and folks in their mid-30s and up, rather than the typically crowd packs these gatherings. It was a festival where someone can go with their grandma, mom, sister or toddler and enjoy rock, soul, jazz, funk, and blues acts. The Pasadena event took over the Brookside Golf Course at the iconic Rose Bowl Stadium setting up three stages for the line-up of talented musical artists and turned the rest of the grounds into an al fresco picnic and lounge area. Arroyo Seco estimates there was a modest crowd in the range of 25,000 attendees. With June being California Grown Flowers Month, we thought this event would be the perfect place to continue the celebration. California flower farms teamed up with JetBlue and Muir Ranch for a “Flowers On Your Head” activation. Teams of photographers were scattered around the grounds and in t...

It's the start of summer, which means once again it's time for the Belmont Shore Stroll and Savor. I don't know how she times it so well, but Rita always happens to be out here for it. Let's go eat! First we need tickets. 12 tickets for $10 means that each ticket is worth $0.83. We started with 36 tickets, but before the night was over, used 60 for the 6 of us.  Finally we allowed enough time to get to Long Beach. In the busy LA traffic it took nearly an hour. But we'd left early enough to arrive at 5pm. Too bad the event starts at 5:30pm. Some places were getting set up early though. At Thai Gourmet, Jacob dug into a plate of chicken pad thai, while Theresa sampled 1 krab and cream cheese wonton. And La Strada right next door all of us, and especially Rita, were disappointed not to see Bruschetta on the menu. Before coming, I jokingly said that we'd probably spend an entire book of tickets on bruschetta. Instead we consoled ourselves with spinach pizza, peppero...