🌼🌱Sunny Daffodil is an original watercolor
painting by Cathy Hillegas. Colors: yellow,
gold, orange, green, brown, purple, blue.
Image size: 11" x 14", paper size: 11.2" x
15". Painted with light fast Winsor Newton
Daffodil Original Watercolor
Painting by Cathy Hillegas
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Best thing of today, so far? I took my dog out for his second walk of the day, as i always do, and for the first time i saw a few dasies.
Spring has arrived.
I'm so happy.
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🌺🌹🌷Flowers💐🪻🌻
In appreciation of the approaching spring, here some tips for cut flowers:
Cut ~2 inches off from the base of the stem, at an angle
Personally, I like to strip all the leaves off each flower. Benefits include: reduces mold growth, allows the nutrients to focus on the flower itself instead of going to the leaves resulting in longer flower life, and reduces the weight, resulting in less droopy flowers (especially for things like tulips)
Add 1/3 a cup of soda (any kind of regular soda) because they love the sugar
Add 1/4 a teaspoon of bleach to prevent mold (no, surprisingly, adding bleach does not kill the flowers)
If you Absolutely Need the flowers to last in perfect condition for a few days, refrigerating them is your best bet.
The more bulbous the flower, the more water content, the more likely the mold growth. Think sunflowers, peonies, ranunculus, and roses. Personally, I avoid them for this reason, but it’s personal preference.
If you live in area with cold winters, avoid buying roses for Valentine’s Day unless they are your recipients favorite. In these areas, roses bloom “naturally” in the summer, and I’ve found the roses that were “forced to bloom early” (for lack of better phrasing) for Valentine’s Day to be of much poorer quality.
Carnations, in my experience, last the longest. By a long shot.
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憶江南 唐 白居易 江南好,風景舊曾諳。 日出江花紅勝火,春來江水綠如藍。 能不憶江南? 1-4.木瓜花 #木瓜 #木瓜花 5-8.迎春花 #迎春花 9.蒲公英 #蒲公英 #南京 #nanjing #nanking #spring #春 #春天 #春日 #踏青 #chinesegarden #flowers #🌼 #🌸 #花 #賞花 #孤芳倦客 #漢詩 #詩詞 #唐詞 #白居易 #憶江南 #江南 (在 Nanjing, China) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpzF40JS25I/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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