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Combine Mystery With Taste in Asian Wedding Favors

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Combine Mystery With Taste in Asian Wedding Favors

What comes to your mind but the mysterious and the natural when we talk of Asian wedding favors and garden wedding favors. The enchanting traditions of the Far East can really make you get creative trying to either design your own favors or choose one on the internet. The unknown and the hidden is part of the Asian culture. A garden venue is most apt for an Asian wedding theme because you can combine the Nature motif to make your setting look typically Eastern.

Before you choose Asian wedding favors, you must remember that they are very elaborate. Thousands of guests are invited and ceremonies are known to go on for days. Guests come from far and no one is considered a distant relative. This closeness and elaborateness must be kept in mind when you choose Asian wedding favors.

Also, in an Asian wedding setting you must focus on the deep reds, goldens and yellows. If your Asian wedding theme is combined with a garden venue then, nothing like it. It will not only help you make the party mysterious and ritualistic enough beneath the starlight but you can also add motifs from Nature.

Keeping this idea in mind, the first motif that will come to mind is of course candles. No Asian wedding favors or, for that matter, any wedding favors, are more interesting than candles molded in amazing shapes and made in beautiful colors. The perfumed and scented candles are really loved by guests of all ages. Candles and fire also holds a very important place in Eastern traditions.

So, if it’s a candle you intend to go for, pick the ‘Chinese tapestry’ votive candle. These Asian wedding favors come for only $2.02 and with its beautiful tassels and red braid makes the Eastern mood fill the party. If you want to use candles as the garden wedding favors, then there are the ‘Plumeria’ floral scented candles. They even have ceramic candle holders. You can add a little fun to your candles by giving away the pear-shaped candles. ‘Two to tango’ or, ‘Paired for life’ make interesting tags on these candles.

Incidentally, while garden wedding themes use extensively the Nature theme as leaves, flowers and ferns, the Eastern traditions are too full of symbols. So, both Asian wedding favors and garden wedding favors can simply be based on symbols. How about choosing to personalize your favors with the Indian Om, Chinese dragon etc. The ‘Double Happiness’ box that has a rich, red and gold, tapestry like design with its golden bow makes such an interesting favor.

Packaging is also very important. Favors set in the traditional Indian cloth of silk looks very elegant. You can choose brocade purses and boxes, notebooks, bookmarks and key rings set in silk. Or, go for the Chinese fans and chopsticks to take your guests by surprise. Your guests will surely keep your memories locked in their hearts after receiving these interesting wedding favors.

The Asians also emphasize on the color green. Naturally, a symbol of fertility, the color can make any wedding favor look beautiful. If you want to stick to the garden wedding favor genre, choose packets of seeds or, an assortment of chocolates cut in leaf designs. Miniature water cans, flower place card holders and ‘blooming flower’ bottle stoppers make for ideal garden wedding favors. With these favors, your guests will only be going ‘green’ with love and not envy.

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Gardening – Plumeria Plant Care

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The plumeria is a beautiful plant whose flowers are put into the Hawaiian leis. It is also known as the Frangipani or the Lei flower. It doesn’t only grow in Hawaii though; you can grow it at your own home!

The plumeria is native to tropical areas of the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, South America and Mexico. When they are grown in these tropical regions, they can become thirty to forty feet tall and half as wide! If grown in other areas, however, they will usually only grow to be large shrubs or sometimes small trees. The branches of this plant are spaced quite widely and are round or pointed. The leaves grow in clusters by the branch’s tips.

If you live in a colder climate, your plumeria should be grown in a container. They make great potted plants for your porch, patio, or greenhouse. If you live in a mild climate, they can be put into the ground where they will become beautiful small trees. However, if temperatures fall into the low 40s they need to be kept in their containers or uprooted from the ground and brought to a heated location. When you uproot this plant, try to get as much root as possible and put the plant into a heated garage or basement where the temperatures are above freezing. During the winter, this plant goes into a dormant stage and does not need light or water. Once all the leaves fall off, you can store it inside until spring comes again.

As soon as the temperature rises outside, you can bring the plant back outside or plant it again if you had it in the ground. It will start growing again as if nothing happened.

Starting in the early summer and ending in the early fall, this plant will make very beautiful, fragrant flowers. The fragrance of these flowers is amazing; it is very pleasant and sweet. The flowers also come in many colors, such as whites, reds, yellow and many pastels. The plant can flower for three months at a time and will produce new flowers every day. When you pick these flowers, they will last for several days if you keep them in water.

If you plant the plumeria in a container, use a well draining potting soil. Cactus mix or a mix with sand and perlite works great. Put the cut end into the soil about two inches deep and firm the soil. Plumerias have low water requirements. Only water them when the soil is dry. Stop watering them in the winter when the leaves fall off and resume in the spring.

Plumerias do need fertilizer that is high in nitrogen. Start giving the fertilizer in the spring when the new growth comes. If you want to encourage the plant to make lots of flowers, switch your fertilizer to one high in phosphorous in early May. Use the high phosphorous fertilizer every two to three weeks until the end of August.

The Plumeria is a beautiful, hardy plant that many people enjoy. If you care for this plant properly, you will be well rewarded with stunning, fragrant flowers. Most importantly, just make sure you protect this plant from the cold.

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Keeping Jakarta Green with Plumeria

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The dry season for most part of Jakarta residents are filled with flood but for some people like who’s job is to keep jakarta city green dry season is a challenge. Maman Kumanto, 49, said he had been watering Jakarta’s plants since he moved to the capital city in 1985 and started working as an assistant driver of a water tanker for the city agency.

Its hard to hard to get water in dry season because the water from the rivers already declining, gets dirtier and smell very bad. “We sometimes take water from the fountain pond near Bank Indonesia,” Maman said, grinning. Maman, who is responsible for watering plants in the nature strips along Jl. Medan Merdeka Barat and Jl. Medan Merdeka Selatan in Central Jakarta, said the pond was the most reliable source of water because he could not rely on the two rivers located near Menteng and the Presidential Palace. Continue reading →

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