Help me out please with an upcoming flower show design. We are supposed to interpret “New England” in a traditional floral arrangement.
Give me some ideas of things that symbolize New England other than fall leaf color and New England Patriots.
Help me out please with an upcoming flower show design. We are supposed to interpret “New England” in a traditional floral arrangement.
Give me some ideas of things that symbolize New England other than fall leaf color and New England Patriots.
Nautical themes and colors, conifers, Shaker style, mums and asters are the first things that come to mind. Lupines maybe.
Colonial history (Pilgrims, Mayflower, Thanksgiving, Sturbridge Village)
Ocean (weathered cedar cottages, lighthouses)
Flora and fauna (maple trees, robins)
Food (lobster rolls, esp the hot lobster roll which was invented in my hometown; grinders, pot roast, bread pudding)
Education (Yale and Harvard)
People (John Adams, P.T. Barnum, Eli Whitney, Mark Twain)
That's off the top of my head.
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Dunkin' Donuts shops.
Seriously, I cannot recall the number of times I received road directions that used DDs as a landmark (first wife was from NE). More seriously, I think herbgeek and catherine covered most of what I can think of. Whaling and fishing were/are big industries, so a net might be appropriate. Others: Fenway Park's Big Green Monster outfield wall. Skiing. Cranberries. Baked beans.
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I was circling around Colonial history and famous patriots and wish I had a pewter container. As it is,
I may use a silver container. I have decided to bring in New England authors by adding an anthology of poetry by NE poets near the Container.
I have to use iris as the dominant flower because it is an iris show.
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I recently donated a bean pot. I see them in the $8 - $2 range in thrift and antique shops.
Steve, that is too funny about DD, and there is such a sense of hometown pride about that chain and its crappy coffee and even crappier donuts.
Too bad it has to be irises and cannot be mayflowers.
Rubus chamaemorus
Cloudberry. "Bakeapple" in Newfoundland. Prized by circumpolar peoples. Quite tart!
It may be a challenge to display male flowers.
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