Remembering Dad On Their Special Day

 

Remembering and honoring our Fathers should be done not only once a year. But instead, we should do it everyday through our prayers. For those who still have their fathers by their side, always be thankful and say you love him everyday because you never know until when you will have the chance to tell them you love them. My dad passed away 3 years ago but, he still lives here in my heart and I know that he is with our Creator now. For the past 3 years, we would always celebrate Father's day at the cemetery, unlike those other families who goes to fancy restaurants and treat their Dads for a nice lunch or dinner. I thought at first that it was kind of odd, but I think it was more meaningful and there are also other families who visits the grave of their parted fathers or husbands.

We brought food and drinks, as well as flowers for my dad. I thought of buying fresh flowers but ended up buying both the fresh and artificial flower arrangements. The fresh flowers would definitely wither and die after a day or two but those silk flower arrangements would stay as it is even until the next Father's day celebration. I bought two sets of rose delight urn with hydrangea accents and put them as an added decoration to my Father's grave. We prayed and enjoyed the food and drinks that we brought while listening to my Father's favorite music. Reminiscing some of the happy and sad times when dad was still alive and we went home at sunset.

I know that Dad is at a happy and peaceful place now and he is watching and praying over me too. The rose delight urn that we brought would remind my Dad that he will always be remembered and that he would always live in our heart.

Choosing The Right Silk Flowers

 

There are multitude of different colors and sizes of Dahlias that could bring life and beauty back to your landscape at home. I enjoyed growing Dahlias because I could use them in many aspects of our landscape design, from low growing border plants to stately background plantings that may reach six feet in height. And when use in the house, it will definitely last for about a week. Dahlia plants grow in full sun, and they can tolerate must soil types, but prefer a sandy, well-drained, slightly acidic soil. These type of plant also needs fertilizer but make sure not to overfeed them, doing so will promote lots of foliage but not a lot of bloom and hand weeding is the only type of weed control that you could use, because using herbicides around your dahlias is a bit risky it might kill the plant itself.

Dahlia care is very simple but just like any other flowering plants, it will require your time and effort as well as daily maintenance to make sure that the flowers will fully bloom. These flowers might be very good to look at, especially when they are fresh but don't you know that there are also silk plants that are very much life like in appearance. Florist and other designers find silk flowers as a premier alternative to the costly fresh flowers. These costly fresh flowers could last for only a week compared to the artificial ones which could last for many years and still it's lifelike appearance would remain. One of the many floral arrangements that caught my attention after visiting a retail shop near our area is the Red Dahlia Spirit Arrangement, at first look I really though that its a fresh flower and it's color is as bright as the ones that I have at home.

These red dahlia spirit arrangement is the best seller at that store, because of it's high quality silks. They are using new silk technologies to make the floral arrangement nearly indistinguishable from the real thing and their wide selection of glass and ceramic vases with details like artificial flower and trimmed stalks for glass vases add to the effect. Why choose the costly fresh flowers when you can achieve the same look or results in your floral arrangements with just using the silk ones.