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Thursday, January 31, 2008
Valentine's Day Protea Bouquets
Protea flower bouquets with free shipping for Valentines Day
For only $59.95, DiscoverProtea.com will deliver a Designer Grade Protea Bouquets this Valentines Day. Place orders before Monday February 11th to take advantage of this free shipping offer.
Press Release: Protea flower bouquets with free shipping for Valentine’s Day
Valley Center, CA -- February 01, 2008 -- DiscoverProtea.com is pleased to announce free shipping on their fresh protea bouquets only offered at the website http://www.DiscoverProtea.com. For only $59.95, they will deliver a Mixed #1 Select Designer Grade Valentine's Protea Bouquet.
“Let love blossom. Beautiful Protea flowers should be displayed without distraction, a wonderful flower arrangement that is elegant, simple and exotic. This Valentine’s Day, share the beauty of a Protea bouquet with someone you love; spoil them with a long-lasting Protea arrangement”, according to Eugene Brill, owner and operator of DiscoverProtea.com.
Place your orders before Monday February 11th at to take advantage of this free shipping offer.
Want to try your hand at growing proteas from seed? Visit the Protea Seed Starter Pack page for tips and information on growing Protea.
Go to DiscoverProtea.com to sign up for their monthly newsletter about Proteas. This Protea farm shares information about growing Proteas and taking care of Protea bouquets freely. Cape Flower Fields is an operating flower farm located in Southern California. Varieties grown on the farm include Pink Ice Protea, Pink Mink, Sugarbush, Pincushions as well as various varieties of Banksia and numerous Cape Greens.
Remember to order your Valentine's protea bouquet.
Protea…flowers beyond the ordinary
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CONTACT: Cape Flower Fields
Eugene Brill, 760-259-2001
http://www.DiscoverProtea.com
SOURCE: Cape Flower Fields, Valley Center, California, USA
Press Release: Protea flower bouquets with free shipping for Valentine’s Day
Valley Center, CA -- February 01, 2008 -- DiscoverProtea.com is pleased to announce free shipping on their fresh protea bouquets only offered at the website http://www.DiscoverProtea.com. For only $59.95, they will deliver a Mixed #1 Select Designer Grade Valentine's Protea Bouquet.
“Let love blossom. Beautiful Protea flowers should be displayed without distraction, a wonderful flower arrangement that is elegant, simple and exotic. This Valentine’s Day, share the beauty of a Protea bouquet with someone you love; spoil them with a long-lasting Protea arrangement”, according to Eugene Brill, owner and operator of DiscoverProtea.com.
Place your orders before Monday February 11th at to take advantage of this free shipping offer.
Want to try your hand at growing proteas from seed? Visit the Protea Seed Starter Pack page for tips and information on growing Protea.
Go to DiscoverProtea.com to sign up for their monthly newsletter about Proteas. This Protea farm shares information about growing Proteas and taking care of Protea bouquets freely. Cape Flower Fields is an operating flower farm located in Southern California. Varieties grown on the farm include Pink Ice Protea, Pink Mink, Sugarbush, Pincushions as well as various varieties of Banksia and numerous Cape Greens.
Remember to order your Valentine's protea bouquet.
Protea…flowers beyond the ordinary
# # # #
CONTACT: Cape Flower Fields
Eugene Brill, 760-259-2001
http://www.DiscoverProtea.com
SOURCE: Cape Flower Fields, Valley Center, California, USA
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
February Protea Newsletter
Welcome to 'PEP', our “Protea Education Program”. Our ultimate goal is to educate and inform about the benefits of Protea...flowers beyond the ordinary TM. Your questions, comments and suggestions are always appreciated.
If you missed any previous issues of the “Proteaceae 101” newsletter, please visit this page our Protea Tips and News page.
Valentines Day shipping schedule
Let love blossom. Beautiful Protea flowers belong in a vase that shows them off without distraction, a wonderful display that’s elegant, simple, and exotic. This Valentine’s Day,
indulge yourself or share the elegance of a Protea bouquet with someone you love; either way, you’ll be happy you did.
All Valentines Day orders will ship Tuesday February the 11th for a timely Valentines Day delivery. Order now. Order your Valentines Day Protea Bouquets from DiscoverProtea.com.
Topic of the month…a little Protea history
From the time that Jan van Riebeeck landed in Table Bay at the southern most tip of the African continent, an ever increasing number of Cape plants made its way to Holland and Dutch gardens. Not unnaturally, the Dutch favored bulbous plants and succulents, with the results that protea were virtually unknown except for the occasional plant in the Amsterdam botanical gardens.
Far to the north, in Sweden, a young medical student made his way to the more affluent Holland to complete his higher medical degree. His name was Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778) and is considered by many as the ‘father’ of protea because he launching Protea into the botanical literature. He was a keen botanist and spent many hours studying and cataloguing these magnificent flowers. Even then, the Dutch did not pay much attention to this mysterious plant. It would be years later that another Swede, Carl Peter Thunberg, possibly Linnaeus’s most gifted pupil, stepped ashore in Southern African, and in the shadow of Table Mountain, started studying Protea in its natural environment. While Thunberg’s interest in Protea was purely academical, his sometime traveling companion, a young Scottish gardener named Francis Masson, had rather more ambitious designs on the Cape flora.
In 1772 George III appointed Sir Joseph Banks as the Scientific Advisor to the Royal Gardens in Kew. Francis Masson was amongst Banks’ first appointments and was off to South Africa on a quest for new plant material. And that’s how Protea got introduced to England. And it was the common Sugarbush - Protea repens, raised from seed by Masson in 1774, that was the first recorded Protea to flower away from it’s native land.
Source: The Proteas of Southern Africa by J.P. Rourke
Want to try your hand at growing proteas from seed? Visit our Protea Seed Starter Pack Page now.
Did you know that Proteas ranks the highest amongst cut flowers when it comes to vase life? Order your Valentines Day Protea Bouquets now.
If you’re looking for a gift idea, something special for your Valentine, you might consider our one-minute diamond and jewelry cleaner for only $4.99. Manufacturer's money back guarantee included.
Best regards,
Eugene
DiscoverProtea.com
If you missed any previous issues of the “Proteaceae 101” newsletter, please visit this page our Protea Tips and News page.
Valentines Day shipping schedule
Let love blossom. Beautiful Protea flowers belong in a vase that shows them off without distraction, a wonderful display that’s elegant, simple, and exotic. This Valentine’s Day,
indulge yourself or share the elegance of a Protea bouquet with someone you love; either way, you’ll be happy you did.
All Valentines Day orders will ship Tuesday February the 11th for a timely Valentines Day delivery. Order now. Order your Valentines Day Protea Bouquets from DiscoverProtea.com.
Topic of the month…a little Protea history
From the time that Jan van Riebeeck landed in Table Bay at the southern most tip of the African continent, an ever increasing number of Cape plants made its way to Holland and Dutch gardens. Not unnaturally, the Dutch favored bulbous plants and succulents, with the results that protea were virtually unknown except for the occasional plant in the Amsterdam botanical gardens.
Far to the north, in Sweden, a young medical student made his way to the more affluent Holland to complete his higher medical degree. His name was Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778) and is considered by many as the ‘father’ of protea because he launching Protea into the botanical literature. He was a keen botanist and spent many hours studying and cataloguing these magnificent flowers. Even then, the Dutch did not pay much attention to this mysterious plant. It would be years later that another Swede, Carl Peter Thunberg, possibly Linnaeus’s most gifted pupil, stepped ashore in Southern African, and in the shadow of Table Mountain, started studying Protea in its natural environment. While Thunberg’s interest in Protea was purely academical, his sometime traveling companion, a young Scottish gardener named Francis Masson, had rather more ambitious designs on the Cape flora.
In 1772 George III appointed Sir Joseph Banks as the Scientific Advisor to the Royal Gardens in Kew. Francis Masson was amongst Banks’ first appointments and was off to South Africa on a quest for new plant material. And that’s how Protea got introduced to England. And it was the common Sugarbush - Protea repens, raised from seed by Masson in 1774, that was the first recorded Protea to flower away from it’s native land.
Source: The Proteas of Southern Africa by J.P. Rourke
Want to try your hand at growing proteas from seed? Visit our Protea Seed Starter Pack Page now.
Did you know that Proteas ranks the highest amongst cut flowers when it comes to vase life? Order your Valentines Day Protea Bouquets now.
If you’re looking for a gift idea, something special for your Valentine, you might consider our one-minute diamond and jewelry cleaner for only $4.99. Manufacturer's money back guarantee included.
Best regards,
Eugene
DiscoverProtea.com
Monday, January 14, 2008
Proteas in the bouquets for January
We are at the end of the Pink Ice and at the beginning of the Pink Mink seasons. There are still some Sugarbush every now-and-then. The Australian waxflowers are just starting and we try to include them if we have any. Sunset Safari are at their peak and they add that dark red/maroon to the bouquets. We always include a little eucalyptus (for fragrance) and Myrtle for color.
The weather has been playing tricks with us in Southern California - hot, cold, rainy, dry - all in a three week period!
Regards;
Eugene
http://www.DiscoverProtea.com
The weather has been playing tricks with us in Southern California - hot, cold, rainy, dry - all in a three week period!
Regards;
Eugene
http://www.DiscoverProtea.com
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Growing Protea from seed
We are only two months away from starting to grow Protea from seed.
The Proteaceae family is found in a vast variety of vegetations, from savannas
and grassland to heavily overgrown hillsides. They thrive in areas that are
prone to periodic veldt fires. Many of the Proteaceae have evolved specialized
survival techniques in response to these fires. Their strong root systems and
thick bark on some varieties, have given these extraordinary plants the ability
survive the heat and smoke generated by fires. In fact, fire and smoke provide
the major trigger in the wild for the Protea seeds to start the germination
process. Seed can lie dormant for years waiting for the right conditions,
usually brought on by wild fires. For these fire-sensitive species, habitat
burning is the single most important cue for triggering germination of the
dormant seed.
In growing fire-prone floras commercially, particularly those of Mediterranean
zones, a solution had to be found to germinate the Proteaceae seed, without
burning your growing fields every year. Following the discovery that smoke
stimulated germination of this rare South African Proteaceae, the exploration of
the benefits of smoke-mediated germination has expanded to different parts of
the world and has been applied in nurseries and in rare flora conservation.
Protea Seed Starter packs available from DiscoverProtea.com
Next, we'll explore germination of Proteaceae seed by using smoke.
The Proteaceae family is found in a vast variety of vegetations, from savannas
and grassland to heavily overgrown hillsides. They thrive in areas that are
prone to periodic veldt fires. Many of the Proteaceae have evolved specialized
survival techniques in response to these fires. Their strong root systems and
thick bark on some varieties, have given these extraordinary plants the ability
survive the heat and smoke generated by fires. In fact, fire and smoke provide
the major trigger in the wild for the Protea seeds to start the germination
process. Seed can lie dormant for years waiting for the right conditions,
usually brought on by wild fires. For these fire-sensitive species, habitat
burning is the single most important cue for triggering germination of the
dormant seed.
In growing fire-prone floras commercially, particularly those of Mediterranean
zones, a solution had to be found to germinate the Proteaceae seed, without
burning your growing fields every year. Following the discovery that smoke
stimulated germination of this rare South African Proteaceae, the exploration of
the benefits of smoke-mediated germination has expanded to different parts of
the world and has been applied in nurseries and in rare flora conservation.
Protea Seed Starter packs available from DiscoverProtea.com
Next, we'll explore germination of Proteaceae seed by using smoke.
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