canada blooms contestby brett |
Nothing says “Happy Valentine’s Day” like a bouquet of fresh flowers, and thanks to the folks at Canada Blooms and Pick Ontario, you have a chance at winning a spring-fresh arrangement just like the one depicted above through this very blog!
The perfect pairing, this give-away includes a lovely hand-tied bouquet of Ontario-grown flowers as well as four tickets to Canada Blooms, Canada’s largest flower and garden festival, with an approximate value of $125! Canada Blooms, hosted at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre from March 18 to 22, celebrates the best of Canadian gardens, exploring the tradition of gardening and horticultural excellence from across the country.
How to win?
Simply answer me this: “What’s your favourite cut flower?”
What florals work best in your interior spaces? How do you arrange them for maximum impact? What vessels work best with that particular type of flower?
Post your response as a comment on this blog, and I’ll choose a winning response on Tuesday, February 10, 2009. Canada Blooms will ship the tickets and arrangement to the lucky winner just in time for Cupid’s arrow to strike. 
*Contest closes February 9, 2009. Open to all residents of Canada, except those in Quebec. Not open to any Transcontinental Media employees, their families, or any other persons with whom they reside.*
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I like English Garden Roses. Ivory ones, cut short with seeded eucalyptus casually thrown in. They’re so lush and old fashioned and look so soft and casual like you could have cut them from your garden and just dropped them in whatever old container you had lying around…an old cigar tin or something. There’s just something so warm and inviting about that…effortless.
If I had to pick a favourite I’d say tulips! I like a large bunch of yellow and white ones arranged in a fluted vase. Nothing looks sexier than a tulip after a couple days of being in a vase, they take on a life of their own! Love them! (2nd favourite is Casablanca lilies for the scent)
There’s nothing like the simple elegance of the calla lily. They can last up to 3 weeks in water. We often think of them as a white flower, but they can be green, pink, purple, yellow, and orange. Even the leaves of some varieties are beautiful. And not being a true lily, they don’t give off that horrid funereal smell. I even love their Latin name: Zantedeschia.