#flower tea pots

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Pretty tea pots from Amazon 🫖🌸

[hallowlamb]

Interesting tea pots.

[hotasfahrenheit]

one thing about this first episode of 4 Minutes that really caught my attention specifically because of my job-

as a florist working ***in America***, most times that a basket of white flowers is sent to someone, it's either being sent to a funeral/calling hours, or as condolences to a home of someone who has lost a family member. most get well arrangements we make at my shop are things in vases. (so please note reading the rest of this that this is all my perspective as an American living in America and i don't have ANY kind of authority about floral traditions in Thailand and anything i might be missing because of that!! this is just what i know about flowers HERE.)

from what i can see in this shot, we've got Oriental lilies, roses, waxflower, alstroemeria, eucalyptus, possibly some lisianthus, and i'm sure more flowers that aren't visible. it's a lovely arrangement! it makes me curious what kinds of flowers are regularly available in Thailand, and what else is in that basket.

that basket is also STUFFED and LARGE, which means it's a pretty pricey arrangement. which i mean Great's family clearly can afford to throw a bunch of money at flowers, so that checks out. a basket like that with the flower selection and the amount packed in there would run probably somewhere around $200 or more at my shop, it's pretty big. it's also probably pretty heavy with floral foam and water in there, so props to Bible for making it look light, because those don't look like silks to me.

anyway for reference here's a less expensive basket arrangement i made a couple months ago for a funeral service (probably around $90). i don't do a lot of funeral work so i don't do baskets often, but this was done on a slow day when they wanted to work on teaching me some new stuff.

is there meaning that could be read into the different flowers and flower choices? possibly, but i CAN tell you that in America, those are all just common flowers for making this kind of stuff and it's more about having a selection of white flowers available on hand in the moment, and things like the alstro and wax that will fill space between the more expensive higher end flowers like the lilies and roses.

do the flowers have different significance in Thailand? again, possibly, but like i said before, i don't know enough about Thai culture to know if they send or gift flower baskets for the same reasons people send or gift them here, and i don't know about the meanings of flowers there versus here.

so do with this knowledge what you will! i just thought given the circumstances that it was a really interesting choice instead of something in a vase.

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Orange and Tea   -   Keimpe van der Kooi

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Oil on canvas ,  55 × 50 cm.

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[hotasfahrenheit]

a red devil dahlia by any other name

hi hello anyeong it's me your favourite neighbourhood florist who watches BL!

i'm catching up on Meet You At The Blossom right now on my lunch breaks at work (on days i'm not watching whatever Important Currently Airing Show Came Out That Day) and the flower they're using for the Red Devil Dahlia caught my eye!

so what we actually have here is not any kind of dahlia, but is in fact a real flower- that's a South African flower called the King Protea! it's even the national flower of South Africa.

they look pretty wild and come in a few different colours (we had light pink ones with pink centers we were putting in valentine's day arrangements at the shop i work at) and according to wikipedia it "grows in a harsh environment with dry, hot summers and wet, cold winters", so it has been able to be adapted to other locations and it's grown outside of South Africa now in various places around the world.

from this florist website, Maui Floral, king proteas "have the largest flower heads in the genus Protea, ranging from 5 to 12 inches in diameter. the flower heads are actually composite flowers, with multiple smaller flowers arranged in the center surrounded by large, colorful bracts on the outside. they have thick stems which extend deep underground; a survival mechanism for wildfires, since these stems can sprout subterranean buds that will then grow into new plants after a fire".

looking up flower meaning on the internet can be a little dicey since there's plenty of different traditions for meanings of flowers and flower language, plus people will just make stuff up and post it online, but most things i'm seeing agree that proteas represent change and transformation.

also, if you haven't seen a dahlia before, here's some actual red dahlias for comparison-

they are pretty decently sized flowers, but are typically much smaller than the protea, and far more delicate, with a short season of availability, so for the practicality of filming purposes, using something that dries well in a way that makes it easy to keep around and have on set as a prop like a king protea and that looks magical and wild makes a lot of sense.

but yeah! proteas are cool!

from the florist side of things, king protea can be mildly tricky to work with because the heads are very dense, which makes them top heavy, but they have thick, sturdy stems which is a good balance. dahlias, in comparison, are a much more delicate flower, with stems that can break easily, and once they are past their prime freshness, they shatter and all the petals start to fall off, sometimes all at once. proteas are considered a tropical flower, and we store them in our mildly cool tropical cooler at work with orchids and other tropical flowers instead of in our colder coolers for regular flowers.

tune in whenever i make another flowers in BL post i guess? who knows when that will be! maybe these will just be grouped by the generalness of flowers in BL since i did a post on that flower basket in the first episode of 4Minutes a few weeks ago and now this.

anyway cheers! 🌸🌼🌺🌷🌹

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