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Bee in her Dress
Calla Lillies for Mother's Day?
They are a flower that bees love
and can be grown organically.
Date: 5/4/2006 10:17:50 AM ( 18 y ) ... viewed 1109 times May 4, 06
8:03 AM
I remember a famous poem,
maybe it is a children's story
maybe a chicken or a cock
in the barnyard, the pet of a little girl
as I recall, that was stung by a busy bee
and died. There was much pain to the little
girl, the cock, and perhaps the bee
to have separated from its stinger
and lost its life.
Sunday on the eve of Beltane
that night when the gallants lads
and lovely ladies break all the rules
and wonder through the fields,
there was a beautiful woman in a flower dress
at the Farmers' Market.
Her dress had flower images that reminded
me of petals. She was standing in front
cut Calla Lilies now in
white containers, but the bees were having
their day with the stamens and lips.
She was adamant that she wanted the
flowers made famous in the paintings
of Georgia O'Keefe, and could only stand there
with one hand holding her dress close
to her body. She had a grimace on her face.l
With the other hand she was attempting to
get some of the Calla Lillies.
She had fear that the bees would have
their way with her as well as the other flowers
and go under her dress.
I watches this magical scene.
If I were quick enough I would have asked
if I might have captured this image with the camera
but it was all happening too in the moment.
There were flocks of bees everywhere on
the Calla Lillies, and yet all the other
buckets of various flowers had none.
It was later in the week, I spoke to Joe Sr.,
grower of these flowers.
The Calla LIllies are one of the
few flowers he grows that can grow with pesticides.
Most of the others ask man-made remedies
to hold back the buglife. The bees did not
seem interested in them.
I would like to see the trend grow
toward more and more organic flowers.
as Mother Earth would want.
The industry of flowers has spoiled much ground,
but the tide is turning.
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Calla Lilies will be the first flower
grown by Joe Sr. that I will ask
Whole Foods to introduce into their stock.
He tells me there is not much competition
in the US for Calla Lillies at present. They
are not the easiest to ship, perhaps.
Here is a lovely company run by
a man I met once at the Natural Product Expo West.
You can order
Calla Lillies for Mother's Day
from his company called Organic Bouquet:
http://www.organicbouquet.com/Product/Detail.aspx?categoryId=1&productId=9
Thanks to Liora Leah's
Research for these:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=330
RESOURCES:
FLOWER PESTICIDE USE:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/organic/flowers020204.cfm
Organic Bouquet Inc.
OrganicBouquet.com is an online source offering fresh organic flowers. Order through this link and Organic Bouquet will donate
10 percent of your purchase to the Breast Cancer Fund: http://www.organicbouquet.com/Info.aspx?pid=158&msource=news0106&tr=y&auid=13...
Some independent farms and farmers markets offer fresh organic flowers year-round. Local Harvest lists over 1,500 sources of organic flowers in the United States, and allows you to search for the ones nearest you:
http://www.localharvest.org/search.jsp?&ty=-1&st=0&nm=%20organic%20flowers
I've been spending time this week
writing about an Enchanted Garden Project
to bring locally grown fresh picked organic
strawberries into Whole Foods Market Hillcrest.
OTHER BLOGS
in THIS SERIES:
The Greatest Food of All
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1591
Some thoughts on the costs
of doing local in San Diego.
Organic Conversion,
The Power in an Organic Strawberry
transformed Anthony Zolezzi's Life:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1517
Strawberry Survey:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1577
Herbicides on Strawberries:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1585
Strawberries as Aprodisiacs:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1589
Garden Magic!
Preliminary Results
of my experience bringing
Super Ripe, Locally Grown
Organic Strawberries into Whole
Foods Market are reported here:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1587
The story starts here:
Religious Experience at Whole Foods Market:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1558
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