Archive for the ‘flower’ tag
The Blossoms of the Week
Tomorrow will announce the coming of December and the countdown of the end of 2008. I’m actually preparing for any changes to come: today I bought the flowers for my wife, and at the same time telling myself, life will be much dull without changes.
The Colour of November
It’s autumn here in Japan. Gradually I am doing some of my gardening and trying to add more greenery at home. I too have my small pot in the office, which I got it for 100 yen with glass pot with it! I went out for flowers just now. Feel to have some autumn colour in the house. As seen in the picture, almost no green. About 1000 yen, Is it cheap? I don’t know, but I have chosen that for the sake of November, the autumn colour.
Japanese Prefer English Paper for Wrapping
Bought some flowers for my wife at a florist nearby. Autumn Gentian and Willow Gentian, and Patrinia Scabiosifolia as decoration. The shop then asked me if I would like some roses for free, which she said, it will still blossom if I keep them in the water. That naturally keeps me back to the shop next time, huh?
She then wrapped it up with newspaper. It was The Financial Times, which gave a different mood to the flowers I bought all of a sudden. The area I live in doesn’t sell English newspaper, and most of the florists don’t use Japanese newspaper to wrap the flowers normally. Flowers bought for cemetery purposes might be wrapped with Japanese papers, I do hear that. It’s become a trend in this country, I guess, for flowers you buy for home decorations or for presents use English papers but never Japanese papers.
