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Powder Room Bathroom in Austin Image of a Tuscan powder room with dark wood cabinets that resemble furniture, brown walls, a vessel sink, and brown countertops.
The rather large (by mosquito standards) elephant mosquito, Toxorhynchites rutilus, with jack-in-the-pulpit plants. Designed for a fellow lab member that works with mosquitoes. Though you may not be a mosquito fan, you might like this one - as larvae, they eat other mosquito larvae. As adults, they don't bite but instead both males and females feed on sugary substances.
My research partner (the house centipede - Scutigera coleoptrata) with my favorite flower. House centipedes pay rent with labor, eating cockroaches and any other bugs they might find. They’re also clean little houseguests - they carefully groom themselves, one leg at a time.
Powder Room Bathroom in Austin Image of a Tuscan powder room with dark wood cabinets that resemble furniture, brown walls, a vessel sink, and brown countertops.
so far the biggest influence this floral design class I'm taking has had on my life is that now I feel like I could write a really good flower shop fic
for valentine's day I am going to tell everyone on the internet that I think bouquets of just roses are dumb.
why? because really, the only reason you would want a bouquet of only roses is to show off how much money you have. roses are expensive. one standard rose at market price is usually about $20 (USD), like if you get it from a wholesaler or something. floral shops usually upcharge for arrangement and also so they can have a profit.
now, you may think about your local grocery store and their bouquets and go "uh I'm pretty sure they do not charge like $100 for their bouquets." this is because they are also probably NOT MAKING BOUQUETS OF ONLY ROSES. also, grocery stores aren't necessarily exactly the most prime location to find super high quality flowers, perhaps. it's a grocery store, my dude.
also, a bunch of roses doesn't look that good. like, dang, at least throw in some foliage or something. that's Boring. and also lazy. what, you couldn't afford to get an actual arrangement because you spend all your money on like a dozen roses? that's like $240 at market price btw
long story short, a bouquet of literally just roses is, in my opinion, in bad taste because the lack of other materials is lazy and frankly unattractive, and therefore the only purpose of doing this is to show off your wealth.
once upon a time I watched a few episodes of 90-day fiance. in the show, there were these two separate guys who both went to the airport with a bouquet. one was with roses, tulips, foliage, and I think some baby's breath. the other was pretty much the same in terms of size and composition, except replace all the tulips with roses.
if they hadn't already told you who was more rich (they had. they made a big point of telling you how rich that one guy was. it was important), you could have told just from the bouquets. standard tulips, at market price, are approximately $2.50 per stem.
think about the price of roses ($20).
now think about the price of tulips ($2.50) again.
now, both of these bouquets were actually objectively alright, in my opinion. I mean, I didn't really like either that much (my preference is 3 roses per arrangement max. I like a variety of flowers.) but the baby's breath was a tremendous help to the rich guy's arrangement, for one thing, and I'm always a fan of foliage (foliage my beloved). I don't really like cut tulips that much (they're just so squishy), but I did really appreciate the variety, so that was also a huge plus.
um. anyways. don't be lazy and get an affordable and attractive arrangement of not just roses.
every time I see a bouquet I'm like hold on let me get a good look at that. what do we have here
today on amelia knows a little too much about flower arrangements: ooo... oough.... that's kind of a sucky bouquet... why did you do it like that..
ok I promise I finished my sketchbook and will answer the rest of the asks (which is 2) tomorrow but also I had a fun idea where you give me a color scheme and I make up a flower arrangement from my imagination with actual stuff you can use to make an arrangement irl. I may also illustrate them possibly.