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Blooming marvelous
With it tipping down with rain and a fair wind blowing I thought I'd
repost this link to a really spectacular display http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...therlands.html David @ a side of Swansea Bay that makes you want to hibernate. |
Blooming marvelous
On 2013-12-15 15:59:13 +0000, David Hill said:
With it tipping down with rain and a fair wind blowing I thought I'd repost this link to a really spectacular display http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...therlands.html David @ a side of Swansea Bay that makes you want to hibernate. Absolutely fabulous display but the Jersey Battle of Flowers started in 1902. Actually. Not that I'm boasting or anything! ;-) http://www.bbc.co.uk/jersey/about_je...fflowers.shtml Some of our family get involved with the Jersey floats and the Bridgwater ones, so I've forwarded your link to them. They really are quite stunning. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
Blooming marvelous
On 15/12/2013 18:19, sacha wrote:
On 2013-12-15 15:59:13 +0000, David Hill said: With it tipping down with rain and a fair wind blowing I thought I'd repost this link to a really spectacular display http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...therlands.html David @ a side of Swansea Bay that makes you want to hibernate. Absolutely fabulous display but the Jersey Battle of Flowers started in 1902. Actually. Not that I'm boasting or anything! ;-) http://www.bbc.co.uk/jersey/about_je...fflowers.shtml Some of our family get involved with the Jersey floats and the Bridgwater ones, so I've forwarded your link to them. They really are quite stunning. I thought that the "Battle of flowers" had been terminated, and had in the last few years used paper flowers as they just don't grow enough to make the floats. David |
Blooming marvelous
On 2013-12-15 21:00:00 +0000, David Hill said:
On 15/12/2013 18:19, sacha wrote: On 2013-12-15 15:59:13 +0000, David Hill said: With it tipping down with rain and a fair wind blowing I thought I'd repost this link to a really spectacular display http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...therlands.html David @ a side of Swansea Bay that makes you want to hibernate. Absolutely fabulous display but the Jersey Battle of Flowers started in 1902. Actually. Not that I'm boasting or anything! ;-) http://www.bbc.co.uk/jersey/about_je...fflowers.shtml Some of our family get involved with the Jersey floats and the Bridgwater ones, so I've forwarded your link to them. They really are quite stunning. I thought that the "Battle of flowers" had been terminated, and had in the last few years used paper flowers as they just don't grow enough to make the floats. David No, there are paper classes but the traditional ones are there still in great style. Much burning of fingers with glue guns and chrysanth heads goes on! WhenI was a child, there wasn't a Hydrangea bush in the island that was safe from the sneaky fingers of float builders a night or two before Battle. We still had the actual Battle then but they stopped that when the yob culture crept in and people started hurling bottles etc. Shame but otoh, after the Battle, the floats are on display outside the sheds they were made in, or their Parish halls. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
Blooming marvelous
On 2013-12-15 21:15:00 +0000, Martin said:
On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 21:00:00 +0000, David Hill wrote: On 15/12/2013 18:19, sacha wrote: On 2013-12-15 15:59:13 +0000, David Hill said: With it tipping down with rain and a fair wind blowing I thought I'd repost this link to a really spectacular display http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...therlands.html David @ a side of Swansea Bay that makes you want to hibernate. Absolutely fabulous display but the Jersey Battle of Flowers started in 1902. Actually. Not that I'm boasting or anything! ;-) http://www.bbc.co.uk/jersey/about_je...fflowers.shtml Some of our family get involved with the Jersey floats and the Bridgwater ones, so I've forwarded your link to them. They really are quite stunning. I thought that the "Battle of flowers" had been terminated, and had in the last few years used paper flowers as they just don't grow enough to make the floats. The local bloemen corso had to import French hyacinths to decorate the floats this year. I would think nearly all the flowers used in Jersey are imported. Time past, it was a very local affair and people used what they found in the island but once it go bigger and more of a tourist attraction, the floats got bigger and more ambitikous. A lot of early work is done with marestails or whatever they're called - those fluffy things that can be dyed all sorts of different colours. They don't deteriorate so can be started on weeks before the actual day. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
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