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PLANTS, VASES, ARRANGEMENTS & "EASTERGARDENS" The Resurrection, rebirth of the earth, or that wacky rabbit... Whichever Easter and springtime mean to you, there is a bouquet to express it. Here are but a few...
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EASTER IS April 12, 2009
Easter Sunday celebrations for 2009 fall on April 12 in the western calendar (Catholic and Protestant Churches). The Eastern Orthodox Church has set this year's date for April 19. Easter is a "floating" holiday whose main constant is that it falls 40 days after Ash Wednesday, which is the day after "Fat Tuesday" or in French, "Mardi Gras." The 40 days between Mardi Gras & Easter is called Lent - a period of fasting, sacrifice and prayer in symbolic remembrance of the Christ's sacrifice. The float has been occurring since the Council of Nicaea in the year 325AD, when Roman Emperor Constantine I ordered the Christian leaders to set doctrine and dates of principal Christian events. Easter (literally, to the east) is not only the Christian Resurrection, but that of older paganism as well, calling the re-birth of the Earth and spring from the depths and deaths of winter and the solstice. Not coincidentally, Easter's "float" moves around the vernal equinox.
SOME HISTORY:
Although
generally associated with Holland & France, tulips originated in
Persia and the Middle-east. The first tulips were brought to Europe
from Turkey in the mid-1500s & for many years were grown only in
university botanical gardens. In the early seventeenth century,
bulbs were stolen from the University of Leiden and thus
began "TULIPMANIA." In the late 1800s, when the Dutch industry began
to officially classify tulips, a peculiarly attractive but
virus-infected variety was categorized as the "Rembrandt" strain.
Later a genetically stable hybrid was developed, bearing the same
moniker. Today in the US, tulips are usually referred to as either
"Dutch tulips," (the standard) or more recently in florist circles
as "French tulips," (the premium or 'jumbo.')
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