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One of the main sculptural symbols of the Pakruojis Manor Flower Festival, the donkey pulling the cloak, created by sculptor Martynas Gaubas, meets bright blue from a distance. This year, its floral cover represents the water and its waves – the ocean, so it is natural that such a range of flower colors was chosen. Still, it is not lavender, as it may seem at first glance. Is – Lithuanian lavender – the impression created by the harmony of sage and other plants that represent the colors and waves of the ocean. This year, not only artists and florists, but also botanists, who joined forces to achieve the most beautiful and pleasing result of flowers, contributed to the composition and creation of flower festivals, according to a press release.
According to Rimanta Vainorienė, a researcher at the Šiauliai University Botanical Garden, “Only annuals were collected for composition, so the choice of lavender was not possible here, and the rich dark blue annual sage was the best choice. In addition to these flowers, other types of flowers were collected and combined, which would create as if they were color transitions of the ocean: blue, gray, white. Along with sage, the red starfish, the black nursery grain, the large-flowered orlaya, the great cerint, the common cosmos, the Mexican blueberries, etc. flourish. “” When it comes to collecting the plants, we also pay attention to the fact that after the seeds bloom and ripen, it would also look beautiful, its seed box would be more interesting, “adds the flower expert.
Karolis Grušas, the landscape architect at the Šiauliai University Botanical Garden, who implemented the idea of this ocean of flowers, says that the flowers and their color transitions wanted to create a rippled ocean effect, and the separate waves provide visitors the opportunity not only to admire it from the outside but also from the inside. flower garden-ocean. “Of course, the best of the beauty of the floral ocean effect, the waves are revealed when viewed from above, then you can still see a mystical moment in it: a two-headed water snake,” says the creator of the composition floral.
Lithuanian lavender The ocean can be seen every day until the first fall frosts during the flower festival at Pakruojis Manor. This is a special place to mention this year’s Žoline, the largest surrounded by flowers and plants.
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