Posted by Marnok.com on July 10, 2007, 12:06 pm
I wonder if someone could fill in a half-missing memory for us,
When we were children, we had flowers in our back garden which we called
"dried flowers". These grew as crisp, dry petals and we used the flowers in
longer lasting arrangements.
Now, many years later, we can only remember that they existed and not what
they were. We were told they were called "dried flowers" but I doubt that
was even a common name for them, just something children were told.
Does anyone know what we might be remembering? They were quite small flowers
if I recall, smaller than say, a pansy but bigger than a snapdragon. I think
they had a central "puff" of seeds, and came in many colours.
Posted by Wane Smooth on July 10, 2007, 11:42 am
on 10/07/2007, Marnok.com supposed :
> I wonder if someone could fill in a half-missing memory for us,
> When we were children, we had flowers in our back garden which we called
> "dried flowers". These grew as crisp, dry petals and we used the flowers in
> longer lasting arrangements.
> Now, many years later, we can only remember that they existed and not what
> they were. We were told they were called "dried flowers" but I doubt that was
> even a common name for them, just something children were told.
> Does anyone know what we might be remembering? They were quite small flowers
> if I recall, smaller than say, a pansy but bigger than a snapdragon. I think
> they had a central "puff" of seeds, and came in many colours.
Helichrysum? Strawflower.
http://www.photographersdirect.com/stockimages/h/helichrysums.asp
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Posted by Marnok.com on July 10, 2007, 4:04 pm
> on 10/07/2007, Marnok.com supposed :
>> I wonder if someone could fill in a half-missing memory for us,
>>
>> When we were children, we had flowers in our back garden which we called
>> "dried flowers". These grew as crisp, dry petals and we used the flowers
>> in longer lasting arrangements.
>>
>> Now, many years later, we can only remember that they existed and not
>> what they were. We were told they were called "dried flowers" but I doubt
>> that was even a common name for them, just something children were told.
>>
>> Does anyone know what we might be remembering? They were quite small
>> flowers if I recall, smaller than say, a pansy but bigger than a
>> snapdragon. I think they had a central "puff" of seeds, and came in many
>> colours.
> Helichrysum? Strawflower.
> http://www.photographersdirect.com/stockimages/h/helichrysums.asp
> --
> Regards From
> Wane Smooth
> Help feed the Hungry,goto
> http://www.thehungersite.com
> It's Free!
aha! this sounds promising, thanks. I'll alert the family :)
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> When we were children, we had flowers in our back garden which we called
> "dried flowers". These grew as crisp, dry petals and we used the flowers in
> longer lasting arrangements.
> Now, many years later, we can only remember that they existed and not what
> they were. We were told they were called "dried flowers" but I doubt that was
> even a common name for them, just something children were told.
> Does anyone know what we might be remembering? They were quite small flowers
> if I recall, smaller than say, a pansy but bigger than a snapdragon. I think
> they had a central "puff" of seeds, and came in many colours.