Flowers…uncut

Posted by: Jackie – Voice at the end of the phone on April 4th, 2008

We get a lot of compliments about our orchids and they really are the most beautiful, elegant plants. Actually, they are not ordinary plants, they are epiphytic plants; an epiphyte is a plant that grows on another plant without taking food from it and our orchids are grown on pieces of bark with the aerial roots hanging out.

Despite the apparent fragility of their beautiful flowers, they are remarkably tough. The photograph here is of our ‘Pink Orchids in a Planter’; they were potted up in September to have the photograph taken for the website. After that, the planter was put in our tiny kitchen where the orchids have received almost no attention and have thrived up until mid- January on this healthy neglect. And probably will for at least another couple of months.

These long-lasting orchids reminded me of an email we received in late November which amused us:

‘Dear Arena Team,

I spoke with my mother in law this evening who lives in the UK, I am in Australia. Last July I sent her a white orchid and tonight she asked me if the flower she had received was actually artificial as it has not changed since it was delivered. She commented back then that the bloom was beautiful, it still is, and she had become worried that she had been watering something that wasn’t real. My M-I-L and her friends have been amazed at the quality of what you have provided.’

At least we knew our orchids were real but I can understand this lady’s doubts.

So, for a really long-lasting, beautiful and reasonably priced gift – think Arena orchids!

Filed under: Customers, Flowers on April 4th, 2008