I have often wondered what the flowers and foliage that I design look like in their natural environment.
Every once in a while when I can remember to ask my growers, I get the most fascinating and unexpected answers.
“Oh it grows as a vine along the ground and it’s all cut by hand.” or “It grows about 20 to 30 feet off the ground the end of tree branches and people have to climb up to get them.”
My goodness! How easy it is to take for granted when I have hundreds of orchids stems waiting to be arranged or boxes of foliage waiting to be designed.
I had a similar feeling this past Thanksgiving weekend, when my family and I went for a stroll in one of the forests just outside of the city to see the last of the leaves turning.
I saw growing out of the ground a green in the foliage world with a rap equal to carnations in the flower world (although that’s changing).
It was full and lush. Nothing like the unfortunate state it sometimes seems to find itself in arrangements.
The lowly leather fern in its natural setting in a shady lush forest was a thing of real beauty.
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