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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Here's a Paper Flower Project... something to keep you busy and creative over the Holidays... and it is really fun

Paper flowers are Fun to create and share...

P.S. Give it go... and post your finished projects on the Marci island Florist and Gifts Face Book Page click the link below and please like our page..

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Rutgers and Boston University studies prove that people that receive Yellow Flowers when they are sick... get better faster...

We all have certain reactions to specific colors... it's like a Color-Horoscope...

My favorite color is Green... and Purple makes me feel extravagant and generous... while Orange makes me excited for change... and Red makes me hungry...

P.S. Yellow certainly makes me "happier"... what color makes you feel Happy???

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Friday, December 26, 2014

Andres Amador creates organic art with sand ... typically on beaches... check out this blog featuring a selection of his beach art... and also a couple of short videos about his style...

Andres Amador - Beach Art

P.S. Amazing organic transformations- in tune with Mother Nature!

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A Fun Sicilian Christmas Tree... created with Cactus, Succulents, and Oranges...

P.S. It doesn't matter how you decorate... as long as you Celebrate!

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Unique Temperature inversions... and Arctic Conditions allow water vapor to freeze and create "flower blossoms" of Frost... on the surface of the ocean...

P.S. Frost Flowers... another great way Nature Celebrates Winter!!!

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Dedicating this FUN Interpretation of the Traditional Christmas Tree to my Niece Grace...

She's a Chemistry Major... and in her master's program and student teaching Chemistry in the Detroit Area!

I think she'd love.. this Chemis-Tree!!!

Photo courtesy of Ed Minor- Chemistry teacher in the Chicago Area...
P.S. Happy Day after Christmas!!!!

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What would Christmas be without Flowers...

Wishing you and yours... a Flower Filled Christmas!!!!

P.S. Happy Holidays from our home to yours!

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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

A Hemiparasite Plant... this unique - "Christmas related" Foliage has bright white berries... and lives it's life attached to a host tree...while it does suck 'lifeforce" out of the host tree.. it also gains energy from the sun with it's leaves...

Oregon State University Horticulture Department proved that Mistletoe... while living off a host tree... are an important part of a vital and healthy natural ecosystem because it provides food and shelter to bugs, birds and a few mammals...

In Oregon some forms of Mistletoe actually provide habitats for the Endangered Spotted Owl...

Commercial Mistletoe is harvested with shotguns... that blast apart the dense collectives that form in the branches of trees...

P.S. That's alot to think about... while you're waiting for your kiss this Christmas Eve!!!

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Thursday, December 18, 2014

David Bromstad of HGTV Fame... created an ombre' Christmas Tree this year... and shared it on social media...

This is a great example of using trending colors in a unique style to create a "showstopping" Christmas Tree...

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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

This Flower is the largest genus in the flowering plant family with 525-600 species... found mostly in the northern hemisphere...

Perennial, and Annual plants and even a few shrubs...

This specific variety is grown as a cut flower by 1 remaining grower in the USA... Ano Nuevo Growers... cut and harvested in Pescodero CA...

Check out this week's CA Grown Experience to see Don Garibaldi... America's Last Violet Farmer... Click here to watch!

These flowers are known to have a flirty scent... because of the compound Ionone... which turns off the ability of humans to smell the fragrant compound for moments at a time...
P.S. These passionate purple flowers are known as "Violets"

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