Re: Flower shows--design elements
- Subject: Re: Flower shows--design elements
- From: B*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 08:47:00 EST
In a message dated 1/6/03 1:01:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, ECPep@aol.com
writes:
> He commented that he did the judging, handed in his
> results and got on the train before the ribbons were passed out.
===>Probably a good idea!
>
> I really don't know a whole lot about these shows. I know that one group
> of
> clubs requires an arrangement each meeting and that honor cycles so you
> never
> are finished with it. I could not join that sort of club as I stick the
> broken flowers, usually broken by me crawling backward, into an old bottle
> on
> the kitchen worktable. I should never win any prizes for arrangement.
> Also, try as I might, I do not understand the relationship between the
> assigned theme and what you are looking at. Sometimes there are no plants
> at
> all in the "design." Sort of warned me off clubs.
===>Sometimes the relationship to the theme exists only in the eye of the
creator. I've never been a member of a garden club but surely some exist that
don't require everyone to be a flower arranger? The local plant societies
I'm familiar with don't do this.
>
> "India be damned!" he roared, "Down by the pond! Hostas. Dozens! Pretty
> sight. Love Kalmias too! Very pretty. That boy, your gardener? Useless! No
>
> clue!
>
===>Good story. In this day and age though, would anyone dare to assume that
a boy in a garden knew anything about the plants? A pity.
Bill Lee
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