The Floral Arch

This arch can be "woodsy" and casual or formal.
The arch can be wrapped in grape vines and then decorated with the bride's favorite flowers. In Colorado we often use Aspen boughs attached to the sides of the arch.

                                                                                                                 

The Most Beautiful Wedding Bouquets

Each time we do wedding bouquets, I think "oh, these are the most beautiful ones we have ever designed". Go to The Holly Berry's Fanpage on Facebook to view the flowers we did for our son and daughter in law's wedding last weekend. This week I think "these are the most precious bouquets."

Please Don't Eat The Daisies



Friday and Saturday are busy days at The Holly Berry. Special occasions are usually celebrated over the weekend and there are deliveries and last minute (oh, no, I forgot our anniversary) bouquets and floral arrangements to create. So, what does a florist do on Saturday night - popcorn and a movie.

A good comedy never goes out of fashion and Please Don't Eat the Daisies is a 1960 classic. It is based on a book by the same name and later became a television series. David Niven plays a New York drama critic and Doris Day plays his wife. They and their four, out of control, sons live in a crowded Manhattan apartment. When they buy a run down old house in the country, the trouble and comedy of errors begin. Four decades after its release, it still makes you laugh!

A Celtic Daisy Legend

There is a charming story about Rhiwallon of Myddvai who was the son of a poor cowherd and the Lady of Llyn-y-Van-Vach. This local lady of the Lake was a beautiful girl who after various appearances on and disappearances into, the lake that was her home, abandoned it and settled down with her cowherd husband to whom she brought great wealth. Her father, however had stipulated that she would have to return to the lake if her husband struck her without anger three times. The husband was very careful but over a period of years, a playful slap with the gloves and two other equally playful gestures finally cost him his wife. She had in the meantime bore him three sons of whom Rhiwallon was the eldest. The boys had been told of their mother and used to wander by the lake in hopes of seeing her. One day she appeared to Rhiwallon and told him that he was destined to benefit mankind by relieving pain and curing illness. She pointed out the various herbs to him and explained their healing virtues. That son became a physician to the Lord of the manor,Rhys. Rhyss gave him a castle called Myddvai and he traveled forth all over the country side curing people and building up a reputation. He was one of the few earlier physicians who advised cleanliness as a good way to avoid illness.It was most likely his bias in favor of cleanliness that helped account for his many successes. His son followed him in the profession and on May 12,1842, Rice Williams M.D., died at the age of eighty-four, the last, although not the least eminent of physicians descended from the mysterious Lady of Llyn-yu-Van-Vach. Six hundred years of medical practice in one family. An extraordinary record. Useful to the physicians of Myddvai, the daisy had another virtue of great importance to them. It could tell if a patient would live or die.
Take the flower of the daisy and pound it well with wine, if the patient vomited he would live.
Thank you http://www.sfheart.com/ for the legends of the daisy.