Attention New Englanders

[iris lilies]

Help me out please with an upcoming flower show design. We are supposed to interpret “New England” in a traditional floral arrangement.


Give me some ideas of things that symbolize New England other than fall leaf color and New England Patriots.

[herbgeek]

Nautical themes and colors, conifers, Shaker style, mums and asters are the first things that come to mind. Lupines maybe.

[catherine]

Colonial history (Pilgrims, Mayflower, Thanksgiving, Sturbridge Village)
Ocean (weathered cedar cottages, lighthouses)
Flora and fauna (maple trees, robins)
Food (lobster rolls, esp the hot lobster roll which was invented in my hometown; grinders, pot roast, bread pudding)
Education (Yale and Harvard)
People (John Adams, P.T. Barnum, Eli Whitney, Mark Twain)

That's off the top of my head.

[SteveinMN]

Dunkin' Donuts shops.

Seriously, I cannot recall the number of times I received road directions that used DDs as a landmark (first wife was from NE). More seriously, I think herbgeek and catherine covered most of what I can think of. Whaling and fishing were/are big industries, so a net might be appropriate. Others: Fenway Park's Big Green Monster outfield wall. Skiing. Cranberries. Baked beans.

[iris lilies]

Dunkin' Donuts shops.

Seriously, I cannot recall the number of times I received road directions that used DDs as a landmark (first wife was from NE). More seriously, I think herbgeek and catherine covered most of what I can think of. Whaling and fishing were/are big industries, so a net might be appropriate. Others: Fenway Park's Big Green Monster outfield wall. Skiing. Cranberries. Baked beans.

Wish I had a bean pot. That would be my container. The bean thing is inspiring.

[iris lilies]

Colonial history (Pilgrims, Mayflower, Thanksgiving, Sturbridge Village)
Ocean (weathered cedar cottages, lighthouses)
Flora and fauna (maple trees, robins)
Food (lobster rolls, esp the hot lobster roll which was invented in my hometown; grinders, pot roast, bread pudding)
Education (Yale and Harvard)
People (John Adams, P.T. Barnum, Eli Whitney, Mark Twain)

That's off the top of my head.
I was circling around Colonial history and famous patriots and wish I had a pewter container. As it is,
I may use a silver container. I have decided to bring in New England authors by adding an anthology of poetry by NE poets near the Container.

I have to use iris as the dominant flower because it is an iris show.

[catherine]

I was circling around Colonial history and famous patriots and wish I had a pewter container. As it is,
I may use a silver container. I have decided to bring in New England authors by adding an anthology of poetry by NE poets near the Container.

I have to use iris as the dominant flower because it is an iris show.

Great idea! Love the poet idea! Robert Frost is the obvious one. Then there's Emily Dickenson.
If you move away from poetry to literature you have the Transcendentalists Thoreau and Emerson, too.

Mary Oliver lived in Provincetown for many years.

[rosarugosa]

I recently donated a bean pot. I see them in the $8 - $2 range in thrift and antique shops.
Steve, that is too funny about DD, and there is such a sense of hometown pride about that chain and its crappy coffee and even crappier donuts.

[Yppej]

Too bad it has to be irises and cannot be mayflowers.

[dado potato]

Rubus chamaemorus

Cloudberry. "Bakeapple" in Newfoundland. Prized by circumpolar peoples. Quite tart!
It may be a challenge to display male flowers.

[catherine]

This probably won't help you one bit, but a friend of mine, a realtor who lives in Mystic, posted this article on Facebook, and it's making me hungry.

https://newengland.com/today/living/new-england-nostalgia/75-classic-new-england-foods/?fbclid=IwAR2_zRnauFWx-SaZnTjnrKYPXQY3p2ou8LpzRMVqzD1baGmOUxYm_vmrRZc