Mistletoe Marriage?
'Here's an idea to steal for a Christmas wedding…
Hang a generous bunch or ball of mistletoe in a prominent place at your reception venue. Symbolising romance and fertility, it's a great decoration detail and will create lots of photo opportunities.
Lead the way by catching a kiss with your groom beneath it as you make your entrance as Mr & Mrs.
Tying sprigs of mistletoe to your napkins is a quick and easy way to dress up your table settings, and for a seasonal bouquet, ask your florist to incorporate this festive foliage into your bridal bouquet.'
www.bridesmagazine.co.uk/planning/general/flowers/2011/11/mistletoe-bunch
Mistletoe Marriage?
'Here's an idea to steal for a Christmas wedding… Hang a generous bunch or ball of mistletoe in a prominent place at your reception venue. Symbolising romance and fertility, it's...
Midsummer Mistletoe
Slowly watching the sun slip into the horizon brings home the reality that summer is coming to a close. With (nearly) all the crops cut the attention draws to the orchards ready for the apple and mistletoe harvest. The coming months are a time of great transformation for the trees. With the trees currently in their summer outfit it is hard to even notice the mistletoe bows in their roofs.
This years mistletoe is looking great, there are lots of big well formed green berries. They will slowly ripen and by November will be a beautiful pearl white colour.
Over the coming months the trees will lose their foliage and their apples. They will be completely bare apart from the odd bunch of mistletoe. This gives us a perfect opportunity to give the trees a health check, this includes managing the amount of mistletoe in the trees.
This is a long time away for the trees now and they prefer to hold on to the last few days of summer rather than dwell on their winter hibernation.
Midsummer Mistletoe
Slowly watching the sun slip into the horizon brings home the reality that summer is coming to a close. With (nearly) all the crops cut the attention draws to the...
Another curious reporter visits KissMe HQ
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-24987280
Over the next week, buyers will travel hundreds of miles to get their hands on mistletoe, the parasitic plant responsible for many a romantic Christmas liaison. But how did one market town become the UK's trading centre for the festive foliage?
Tenbury Wells sits alongside the River Teme where Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire meet - the three counties, experts say, which provide some of the best growing grounds for mistletoe.
The plant loves fruit trees to attach itself to, and the large number of orchards in Herefordshire and Worcestershire were thought to play a large part in the abundance of mistletoe in the area.
Mark Adams, an arable and livestock farmer from Eastham, about five miles outside Tenbury, gets extra profits from the mistletoe his farm attracts and sells it online.
"The money from mistletoe is negligible really," he said.
"You couldn't survive on it, no way.
"But it's growing there and you may as well take advantage of that."
Wholesale, he charges £35 for 50 sprigs (about 3.5kg or 7lb 11oz), going up to £215 for 450 sprigs...
Another curious reporter visits KissMe HQ
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-24987280 Over the next week, buyers will travel hundreds of miles to get their hands on mistletoe, the parasitic plant responsible for many a romantic Christmas liaison. But how did...
