Flowers Jun20

Flowers

Zoe put the new arrivals in the cooler and stood admiring them through the glass.  The color was perfect for the Adam’s Wedding this weekend. They were the exact shade of blue Ali, the Bride, said she wanted when she left her order and the small swatch of sky blue satin.  Zoe was sure the Bride did not realize the difficulty in finding suitable blossoms in blue.  No one ever did. She had often been confronted by a Bride to be who wanted all Roses and all blue. Then she had to explain that Roses came in many colors, but not a pure blue.  Then the unconvinced customer would point to a blue Rose at her neckline, which of course was a perfect Rose bud, true… but in sky blue silk.  If she suggested that Michael’s might carry what she was looking for, the customer often left to go to another Florist, deciding that we were unreasonable. These fresh Agapanthus’ with their large round heads filled into a grapefruit size globes of small, blue trumpet blossoms would be very good for the tables with their long stems and sword shaped deep green leaves. For the Bride’s bouquet she planned to use several of the sky blue Spanish Iris by folding back the petals into the shape recognized as an Orchid, but in a better blue color than any Orchids she had seen. A few of the fluffy, little 3 inch, pale blue, Scabiouses as the back ground flower with their dainty, white, centers would accent the white lace and satin ribbons,  Zoe could picture in her mind. There were two large bundles of the light blue Bachelor Buttons that would make perfect little boutonnieres for the Best man and his attendants, in spite of...