Flowers for Our Dearly Departed

I have been doing the same flower arrangement for a few times already, because this is the only arrangement I can think of that can fit our Angel’s little apartment at Divine Shepherd Memorial.

Our angel that we've 2 years ago...

photo not mine

The rest of the flowers I bought 2 days before, were also arranged in a separate container (an empty water bottle cut to an appropriate size), intended for my parent’s in law who rested in Bukidnon.

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Cut Flowers at St. Augustine Cathedral

Yesterday October 30, 2014 5:00PM PST (Philippine Standard Time), hubby and I decided to purchase the flowers we plan to bring to our loved ones graves on November 1. We purposely visit and bought the flowers early because as much as possible we wanted to stay away from the crowd. And buying the flowers a day before or on November 1 will definitely have an increase in prices.

As expected, the areas in front the St. Augustine Cathedral, where most of the local flower shops are located were still very peaceful with just a few customers dropping by, though the florists had been already busy arranging the flowers they are going to sell. Today or tomorrow will be different, the place will surely be full packed with people.

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Mums + Recycled Flower Pots

Remember my trip last week at Lim Ket Kai Mall, Plants and Flowers Garden Display Area wherein I bought flowering plants like Lilium Stargazers, Gerberas and Mums? So far after a week, they are still alive and flourishing especially the Mums. 

I actually bought 4 different colors of mums at P75.00 ($1.75) per pot. There were a lot of colors available for sale but I chose only four, the most I can afford and these were;

of Orange or Rust and Yellow Shade

Bright Yellow 

Lilac/Lavender Shade

and Red Maroon 

Hubby and I replanted them in another container. Instead of buying plastic pots we decided to recycle empty plastic water bottles. We have a lot of them at home because these were the used purified drinking water  bottles that our son had consumed.

 

Hubby cut the lower portion of the bottle (above the first ring) using scissors then bored holes at the bottom.

This is how the empty recycled pot looks like...

Recycled pot with garden soil...

 And finally the replanted mums in the recycled plastic pots.

Instead of throwing them away, these empty bottles were put into good use.

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Tabletop Ornaments: Mums

These pretty mums were used as flower ornaments on top of the conference table where we had our meeting with our counterparts in the power industry last Wednesday. I took some snaps while having a 10 minute break in the middle of the hot discussions.

Photo taken using my ever reliable Samsung Galaxy S2 smartphone.

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