In one of my joking moods, I say that "Mother Nature is good, but she's not perfect. That's why she created florists."
This is very true in the case of orchid plants. They are very popular, very striking, very pretty....but, as they say, presentation is very important. Some of my floral colleagues use curley willow branches to decorate the plant. I never cared for that. Instead, I prefer to use feathered butterflies, bumble bees, grasshoppers, beetles and other "critters" to decorate the plant. I use butterfly clips to attach the spike (the technical name for a stem of orchid flowers) to a bamboo stick so the spike stays vertical (remember, in nature, the orchid plant attaches itself to a tree branch and the spike then hangs down. Would you like your orchid plants to hang down? Or stand up straight?) And we use a matching color gift bow as the "piece d'resistance!"
