The growing petal. Interview with Rosario Pulupa Charito, tell us a about yourself. What kind of work did you do before working at the flower farm? I used to work as a house maid were most of my salary went towards paying the rent. After a couple of months I had to come back
I Used Flowers As Currency For A Year. Here’s What Happened I started growing flowers simply because I wanted to do something that made people happy. My partner Matt was already growing the vegetables, so I added flowers to our little farm. It brought such an amazing balance to our homestead by mirroring what occurs in the
HEALTH: The calming power of flowers Edward Bach was a doctor, bacteriologist and pathologist whose primary research before the First World War was in vaccines (bachcentre.com). Despite being diagnosed in 1917 with an incurable illness, he recovered and decided to follow a holistic approach to medicine, treating the person not just the disease. That quest
Freakebana: The New, Ugly-Cool Style of Arranging Flowers It’s pronounced “free-ke-ba-na.” On a recent Thursday in lower Manhattan, I sat at the well-worn kitchen table of artist-chef Laila Gohar. At the edge of the wooden surface, nestled among an open wine bottle and some tasteful pottery, lay a humble sweet potato, into which three short sprigs
Pretty pumpkins & autumn floral arrangements A pumpkin full of posies and other delightful autumn blooms from Notting Hill florist, Phillo As French philosopher Albert Camus once said, “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” It is when the leaves begin to rust and the fields fill up with pumpkins, squashes,
Flower artist Makoto Azuma’s stunning arrangements In this season of shorter days and longer nights we probably need the sight of flowers more than ever. Perfect timing for Ben Tracy’s “Postcard From Tokyo”: The mornings begin shrouded in fog and surrounded by color. Yellow, red, pink … a forest of flowers begins to grow. The
