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Over the Garden Fence: How a homemade nosegay became the heart of an alumni celebration
The most recent venture over the garden fence sent me to was a friend's home where roses were blooming. Terri and Randy Lady still do justice to growing this queen of flowers. The plan was to construct a nosegay with a center of pink. Randy spoke with me about the health and size of the roses, claiming the soil was marvelous. The miniature roses were larger than what is typical. He cut four deep pink roses and a few stems of The Fairy a polyantha rose that blooms in clusters nearly all summer. The roses were refrigerated. That evening leaves from heuchera, gray-green Lamb's Ears and several ferns were cut. Coral bells, penstemon, and fever few were gathered. They went into water to be conditioned. A standard posey holder with a handle had been inverted into water to soak a half circle of floral foam. To assemble, the holder was placed in a heavy mug. Starting at the bottom of the wet half sphere, stems on the leaves of the Lamb's ears were cut on a diagonal and pushed into the foam. Penstemon stems with white blooms were placed on top of the gray-green. Tips of fern were inserted with spaces. The soft pink stems of The Fairy rose were higher on the half sphere. Pieces of the tiny, daisy-like, white fever few were next. The pink central focus roses were tucked in. Last but not least tips of pink coral bells were placed randomly for a top dressing much like baby's breath might be used. Earlier in the day an 18-inch length of cotton eyelet had been gathered into a circle. This was held against the bottom of the posey holder with hot glue.. Four types of pink ribbon in differing lengths were tied all together. Then each strand ending was knotted. One gob of hot glue kept the ribbon cluster to one edge of the eyelet. Why all this? Heidelberg University's alumni weekend, which was celebrating 175 years of the college's history, included a wedding vow renewal ceremony. The spirit of it all swept me up to the point a white sport coat was rented for Bill. His pink carnation was backed with a couple of heuchera leaves; all were bound with tape. A cotton eyelet dress arrived for me. The nose gay, also called a tussy mussy, would serve as a bouquet substitute. Flowers were laid into bubble packaging with a bag of ice below. The unit went down into a box. Four hours later we were in line with about 30 other couples all wondering how this would unfold. We promenaded into a circular walkway outside the Honors House. Led by the vice president of Alumni Affairs, who is an ordained minister, we repeated (after her) a brief version of our vows. Couples pinned one another with a double heart pin. As we were leaving the minister called out asking me to come back and toss the bouquet nosegay. The woman who caught it was over 85 and had never been married. She was there as a guest of her sister. Through tears she asked if she could keep it. Of course she took the flowers home. That nosegay brought joy to another. Life is good. Mary Lee Minor is a member of the Earth, Wind and Flowers Garden Club, an accredited master gardener, a flower show judge for the Ohio Association of Garden Clubs and a former sixth grade teacher. This article originally appeared on Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum: Nosegay was hit of the party at Heidelbert University reunion
Daily Mail
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Meghan shares new footage of her beloved rescue dog Guy as she teases new project she's been 'cooking up' days after breaking cover for Archie's birthday
Meghan Markle took to social media to tease fans with a hint of what may be coming on season two of her Netflix show With Love, Meghan. The Duchess of Sussex shared footage of her crafting some floral arrangements alongside her beloved late rescue dog Guy. The clip was posted to Instagram with the caption: 'Flower arranging with Guy last spring. Just wait til you see what I've been cooking up this year! More soon'. The footage was set to the jaunty pop song 'Lollipop' by The Chordettes - originally written by Julius Dixson and Beverly Ross in 1958. Meghan broke cover earlier this week to post a special celebratory message for her son Archie's sixth birthday - her first public pronouncement following her husband Prince Harry 's disastrous BBC interview. The latest behind-the-scenes clips show Meghan trimming the stalks of a bunch of pale roses and a series of other plants, before combining them into a beautiful floral arrangement. Buzzing around her feet is her late beagle, Guy, who Meghan adopted from a dog rescue in Canada in 2015 and who passed away earlier this year. In a commemorative post on January 7 this year announcing Guy's passing, Meghan wrote: 'He had been at a kill shelter in Kentucky and given a few days to live. I swooped him up….and fell in love. 'They referred to him as 'the little guy' because he was so small and frail, so I named him 'Guy'. And he was the best guy any girl could have asked for. 'If you followed me on instagram back in the day, you saw a lot of him - and on The Tig too. He was with me at Suits, when I got engaged, (and then married), when I became a mom….he was with me for everything: the quiet, the chaos, the calm, the comfort. 'He endured a terrible accident shortly before I moved to the UK which had him undergoing surgeries for several months and unable to leave the clinic. 'Doctors said he would never walk again, but Dr Noel Fitzpatrick said he could do it. H and I would drive late at night, after hours, to see Guy as he recovered in Surrey for months on end. 'I will always be grateful to Noel and his team, the team at Queen West Animal Hospital in TO, our vets now, and my friends and community: Thank you for loving him so. 'Because many of you will now see Guy in this new series, I hope you'll come to understand why I am so devastated by his loss. I think you may fall a little bit in love too. 'I have cried too many tears to count - the type of tears that make you get in the shower with the absurd hope that the running water on your face will somehow make you not feel them, or pretend they're not there. But they are. And that's okay too. 'Thank you for so many years of unconditional love, my sweet Guy. You filled my life in ways you'll never know.' Meghan Markle announced her new Netflix show had been 'renewed for a second season' on Instagram back in March The project Meghan mentions 'cooking up' is likely to be the second season of her Netflix show With Love, Meghan which was renewed by the streaming giant in March. The eight-part series received a series of less than enthusiastic reviews in the press, being branded 'smug, syrupy and endlessly spoofable' in the Times and 'an exercise in narcissism' by the Telegraph. But Netflix were insistent that 'there's more joy to be shared'. The show aired on March 4 this year and saw Meghan offer lifestyle tips from inside a rented $8million (£5million) mansion near the Sussexes' Montecito home. Despite the negative press, the show rapidly rapidly made its way to Netflix's Top 10 most-watched list. According to the streamer, season two is already shot and will air sometime this autumn.
