#protea flower

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Pink and Brown ~

[redrcs]

More than a wildflower

Protea, near Manjimp

On my travels

[speakingmysoul]

[theweeowlart]

🔴Sold

This drawing is now sold, thank you. I've got lots of flower drawings still available. If you are interested in seeing or purchasing my art, I'd love you to visit my Etsy shop. *shop link in my profile

[serafinelea]

Snake tattoo design for a client

Commissions open : Here

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[bubertart]

Protea flower, my original oil painting, came out rather cute, 18x24 cm on wooden panel

Update - this one is sold, but there are more floral paintings in portfolio

[somnimagus]

My page for @kairizine. It was such a huge honor to be part of this wonderful book with everyone, I had so much fun!

[id in alt!]

[mrchill]

A. / Protea © Chill · +

[fleshwizard]

Herbarium, october

[photoblogdujour]

Protea pincushion, traveling out of the galaxy at an astonishingly high rate of speed. Planning on leaving the Milky Way by 2042, in early September.

[daintyus]

[thunderstruck9]

François Krige (South African, 1913-1994), Still Life of a Pin Cushion Protea, 1983. Oil on canvas, 24 1/2 x 20 1/4 in.

[helluvatimes]

Two Kings One Bush

King Sugar Bush (Protea cynaroides) blooming in autumn in the spring environment of the Flower Dome. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

[colorsoutofearth]

King protea flowers (Protea cynaroides) in South Africa

Photo by Claudio Velasquez

[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! 🌸🌼🌺🌷🌹