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Bambi may have had a Skunk named Flower but he had nothing compared the Flower Market Garrett and I went to!!
On Valentine’s Day Garrett thought it best (well, I told him what to think but he followed directions very well) to let me pick out my own flowers then to buy me the typical over priced roses most boyfriends give. So he took me to the Indoor Flower Market at Ding Xi Lu and Yanan Xi Lu here on the Puxi side of the river.
Although it wasn’t as bustling as I had anticipated, or as big (the cold weather had made an indoor flower market our only option) the market was like nothing I had seen before. Barrels, and barrels of flowers filled the aisles on the first floor. Hydrangeas (my favorite), tulips, multi-colored roses, daisies, house plants and some I wouldn’t know what to call because I had never seen them before, filled every store front. The smell was fantastic!! It’s the kind of smell you wish your laundry would smell like. Perfume companies probably travel from the far ends to try nothing more then to bottle the perfectly fresh scent of exotic Chinese flowers. But nothing could ever duplicate this smell, besides (of course) a warehouse filled with flowers.
Ohh and the colors… the colors were better than anything Crayola could have come up with. They would have made Dorothy and her techni-color world envious.
The second floor was a different story. This is where my grandmother would probably choose to shop. Millions upon millions of fake flowers! Silk, cotton, pink, orange, big, small, tall, short… you name it they had it, fake.
Leave it to China to even make the flowers fake.
I left with a bouquet of Hydrangeas (for less than 5 dollars) in white, purple, blue and green. So outstanding!
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Yea that was fun. We should go back when the weather gets better, I bet there will be even more flowers.
Comment by Garrett — March 6, 2009 @ 9:20 am
whats wrong with plastic they last longer a girl i know got some fake flowers from her boyfriend and when they broke up he asked for them back and she gave them back.But I love real flowers like roses , i preety much like any flower that doesn`t make me snezze. so could i call u flower if i wan`t to. luv alexis , and esther love from the both of us have a nice day!!!!
Comment by Alexis — March 7, 2009 @ 1:41 pm
Grandma says “How rude” she loves her fake flowers
Comment by Beatriz — March 10, 2009 @ 7:10 am
Heheheh
Genius!
Comment by Garrett — March 16, 2009 @ 1:29 pm