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Alstroemeria:
Also known as the Peruvian lily, the alstroemeria’s bright, small blooms grow in clusters and often have freckled petals. They are moderately priced and are best used as a backdrop to primary flowers, although a mass of pink alstroemeria makes a lovely and cost-effective bouquet. Their colors include white, yellow, pink, orange, and red
The lily, carnation, alstroemeria, and baby’s breath: Four lovely flowers, but bunch them together on a restaurant table in a small white vase and the presentation alone turns beauty in gaudy.
To bring out the full beauty of flowers, especially common varieties, play them to their fullest natural advantage.
Suffragettes used to say, “ A common woman is as common as a loaf of bread, and she will rise!” We nominate all those “ common flowers”- the carnation, the lily, baby’s breath, and the supermarket variety alstroemeria-as candidates up to the task of being great.
Its beautiful nature comes with a hardy soul. No matter how long the day, how tightly gripped, how glaring and hot the photographer’s lights, this flower will soldier on.
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