tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13961468.post958975945140744728..comments2024-02-14T07:29:25.919-05:00Comments on Cook Ding's Kitchen: Having just finished shovelling the snowRick Matzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09699550034693340637noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13961468.post-54913013266905238662008-02-10T20:49:00.000-05:002008-02-10T20:49:00.000-05:00There's a number of different schools of ikebana, ...There's a number of different schools of ikebana, and I'm sure there is at least one that keeps the flowers and plant intact.<BR/><BR/>I like the flowers attached to living plants as well.Rick Matzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09699550034693340637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13961468.post-90343415012915683752008-02-09T11:31:00.000-05:002008-02-09T11:31:00.000-05:00Staying with your original thought -- shoveling tu...Staying with your original thought -- shoveling turning to thoughts of flowers -- it looks like the photograph is showing a lovely hybrid dahlia. Wow they can do some amazing things with genetic manipulation of flowers nowadays. Do a google on heuchera and when you find the place out on the west coast that is the premier place for new varieties, take a look. <BR/><BR/>Secondly, I'm glad you chose a photo with a flower still attached to it's plant. The flower arranging you talk about is where they cut the flowers and stems off from their plants and impale them upon metal spikes. To me the practice is like beheading a human being, placing their head on a pole and admiring it. Or a hunter who has a taxidermist mount his "trophy's" head on a slab of once-living tree (aka wood).<BR/><BR/>Ikebana steals the magnificence of a once-living thing and transfers it to the ikebanist (sp?) <BR/><BR/>The beauty in the floral world for me is to see the process of a seed/seedling/root travel from state to state, throughout a season.ms_lilihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03999098267891256848noreply@blogger.com