💐 The contest of Petals. Wednesday: PinkFlowersday.

Hello everybody!

Today, these beautiful flowers for #petals and #pinkflowerday

I really love these gentle marshmallows, like clouds, so fluffy and beautiful, and I want to bite them!)

A miracle of nature called Hydrangea! Such a name this beauty received in honor of the Princess of the Holy Roman Empire, which had unearthly beauty!

In Europe, these bushes and trees were in the early 19 th century. In Asia, I often see huge trees that are abundantly covered with colorful flowers. At us basically it is bushes well or small trees.

Translated from Latin, literally, you can translate as a vessel with water! But it's true that this plant is so hygrophilous that when I work with it, I compose compositions, then I try not to hold it without water even for a minute! With a hydrangea in general, there is always so much happening, and not the most pleasant ..... For example, recently decorating at a wedding table for a newly-married couple, seeing what they brought me, with what I will work, I just sat down and almost burst into tears at the sight of hydrangeas, everything the flowers were in order, but this beauty once again let me down .... all of its inflorescences were drooping and the kind of it you know what .....

Fortunately, the florists have their own secrets, to which we resort))) It's good that almost all the flowers (usually a Dutch cut) and it comes on high legs. I trimmed it as short as possible, and put it in water with hot water, adding a little vodka and chrysalis (this is a special remedy for cut flowers that prolongs their life) .... Literally in a couple of minutes of such shock therapy, with a thick stem, hydrangea began to come to life !!! and already half an hour after, it was possible to work further !!!

It's amazing that florists know how much this is not a reliable flower, but they often advise brides to wedding bouquets with the addition of hydrangeas, although I always dissuade them and explain to girls that their bouquet can live only a couple of hours in the heat ..... It is a pity that such beauty, so fleeting .....

Thanks for the idea @adrianobalan and @sardrt