A Pain in the Botanicals

So, now the hard work really starts.

Every week, on top of a written assignment, I have to learn the features of five flowers and five foliages. This includes the Latin classifications, diseases and uses in floristry (the latter two don’t have to be learned in Latin). Oh yes, and did I mention the practical assessments too?

We have five weeks of this! But because I am somewhat obsessed by tulips, this shouldn’t be too much of a chore; one of the ten this week is Tulipa.

But here is some trivia for you, did you know there are 10,000 varieties of maidenhead fern? Scary eh? That must have been someone's life work.

"So, what do you do for a living?"

"Classify maidenhead fern".

Quite a conversation stopper.