Have you ever had someone knock at your door and offer to buy flowers out of your garden> Well, it's just happened to me. A passing florist stopped and asked if he and his wife could cut the heads off some of our hydrangeas as there is apparently big demand for pink hydrangeas for weddings. We have two such bushes, with masses of large well-formed flowers and I said OK. They didn't pay much - only $12 for the lot, but they still left most flowers on show and they were beginning to get past their peak. After placing the heads in a large tub of presumably nutrient-rich water they headed off back to Toowoomba in southern Queensland a long way north of here. Quite why they selected our street I don't know but maybe they met someone who knew about our bushes.
That's the first part of the story. The second part was equally interesting. The wife was an agricultural research scientist and he was a student of modern politics and while the flower heads were being cut we had long discourse on rural and regional Australia, the need for increased spending on rural industries - predominantly agriculture, and the need to create fast-changing and risk accepting business cultures. These are the very themes I've been working on and reporting in various publications. So our discussions were very friendly and concordant. In retrospect it was a wise decision to grant them the right to buy our flowers. By the way, part of her research is into the use of cyanobacteria for various uses - including production of synthetic fuels. I already knew that such bacteria are probably been responsible for most of the world's oil reserves over millions of years.
All this made my day .. not forgetting that Dot and her brother, Dick, arrive back on the flight arriving at 4.30 this afternoon. After our lengthy discussions, that's only three and half hours away!!
AS
That's the first part of the story. The second part was equally interesting. The wife was an agricultural research scientist and he was a student of modern politics and while the flower heads were being cut we had long discourse on rural and regional Australia, the need for increased spending on rural industries - predominantly agriculture, and the need to create fast-changing and risk accepting business cultures. These are the very themes I've been working on and reporting in various publications. So our discussions were very friendly and concordant. In retrospect it was a wise decision to grant them the right to buy our flowers. By the way, part of her research is into the use of cyanobacteria for various uses - including production of synthetic fuels. I already knew that such bacteria are probably been responsible for most of the world's oil reserves over millions of years.
All this made my day .. not forgetting that Dot and her brother, Dick, arrive back on the flight arriving at 4.30 this afternoon. After our lengthy discussions, that's only three and half hours away!!
AS
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