Shopping for flowers and plants

The weather has been very wet lately. Hot sunny weather in morning heavy downpour in the afternoon. It was raining on the Friday night till Saturday morning, such a weather is nice for a good night sleep, no air conditioning is needed.

Though it was still raining, we proceeded to the tamu at Giant Hypermarket's car park at planned on Saturday morning. The road condition has never been in smooth condition at Kolombong area even before I worked at that area some 10 years ago. Potholes every way, flooded on certain parts of the road, repairing work does not seems to end.

Flooded road

and another stretch of flooded road

Like many other tamus, they sell varieties of stuff, from pets to vegetable, from toys to plants. Our intention was to find potted plants. Our girls attracted to the pets/animals stalls where they sell hamsters, little chicky, little duckling, rabbits and puppies.

There are few stalls selling plants, I am not into gardening so have no idea what sort of plants Clet is looking for, he did all the plants shopping.

But Crystal like these 9 o'clock flowers, I bought 2 little pots of these, our girls picked the colours they wanted, that's red and pink, we have not transplanted them to a better pots yet, they are still in the mineral bottles containers. These plants are easily grown, not much care needed.

I guess these must be the local gerbera daisy, the flowers are not as big as the ones I bought for my flower arrangements which I used to do last time.

Same goes to the roses, tiny. But can't expect much from local grown floral, only if I could get these type of result from my planting I would be very happy.

Roses say a thousand words

Who don't like flowers? Receiving flowers would put a smile on one's face thus brighten up her days.

I love flowers very much that I attempted to becoming a florist at one point. I attended basic flower arrangement classes many years back and run a home base florist for a short while. To promote my business, I designed my own leaflet with a catchy phrase "Roses say a thousand words" as roses are commonly used to express the feelings and emotions in us.

The colours of the roses represent different meanings. Before you order a bouquet of roses to be delivered to someone, it would be wise to check on the meaning of the various colours of roses or consult your florists, they would able to recommend the ones that best suit your feelings.

Based on my experience the most desired colour is Red rose as it signifies love and passion. Pink roses signifies appreciation and gratitude; yellow roses used to represent jealousy but now signify friendship, joy, congratulations. Sending lavender roses to convey a message of "love at first sight" to someone special whereas white roses signifies purity and spiritual love.

Besides having to know the meaning of the respective colour of roses, the number of rose that you send is also significant. One stalk of rose represents love at first sight and you are the only one; most of us know what's the meaning of three stalks roses mean, that is I Love You; twelve stalks of roses mean Be My Steady.

You could easily convey your message to someone special by placing orders on line, there are a number of on line florists would be able to deliver your flowers within a day.