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- Today on Life In Bloom we'll 
show you

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how flowers and romance go 
far beyond Valentine's Day,

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and how you can treat 
yourself and your loved ones

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with arrangements food and drink

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infused with floral inspired 
romance.

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I'm J Schwanke, welcome to Life 
In Bloom.

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"Every flower is a soul 
blossoming in nature."

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Flowers can set the tone for 
romance,

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today we'll take a look at 
fragrant and romantic flowers

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and ways you can incorporate 
them into your everyday life.

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Setting the scene with 
candlelight

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and simple floating flowers 
at the dinner table,

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creates a sense of quiet and 
connection

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and lends an overall 
soothing vibe to your event.

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Today, we'll take a look at 
romantic fragrant flowers

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and ways you can incorporate 
them into your everyday life.

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Romance isn't only for special 
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you can keep romance in your 
everyday life

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when you surround yourself 
with the sights and smells

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of these beautiful flowers.

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Let's begin by taking a look

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at the most romantic 
flower of all, the rose.

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Red roses are considered 
the ultimate symbol

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of romantic love and enduring 
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while it's well known that 
red roses symbolize love

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what do other rose colors 
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Yellow, joy, happiness 
caring and true friendship.

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Orange, fascination, 
passion, desire and pride.

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Pale pink, thank You, grace, 
admiration and elegance.

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Deep pink, gratitude, 
refinement and appreciation.

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Peach, believe me, modesty and 
sweetness.

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White, innocence, purity and 
loyalty.

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Burgundy, undying love 
and unconscious beauty.

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Now that you know a bit more 
about the meanings behind roses

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let's take a look at how 
and where they're grown.

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It's been too long since I've 
been here

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at my favorite rose grower in 
California.

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We're at you Eufloria Flowers,

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to see their romantic garden 
roses and new spray roses.

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So Chad this is your new 
garden rose collection.

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- Yeah, we have all of our 
garden roses

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generally located within certain 
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within our operation.

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- They're beautiful! 
- Thank you.

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- [J] They're beautiful.

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- This is lovely hearts

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probably one of our most popular 
varieties, with the color

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it's that coral peach color.

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And here you have the caramel 
antique

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it's got the light 
butterscotch caramel color,

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it is very popular and opens up

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like that true garden style 
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- That, just that shape is so 
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- [Chad] It is, and we 
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for that look,

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that cabbage outdoor appeal.

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- They were so fragile

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when we first started 
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but these are so durable.

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- And we're finding that the 
breeders are now crossbreeding

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varieties that have that 
certain European shape

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with other varieties, and we're 
getting that the longevity

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out of these,

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and the durability out of these 
varieties its outstanding.

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- Instead of you know the dozen 
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that I used to get for 
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do you think maybe I'll do like 
clusters

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of roses in a vase for 
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With the garden effect?

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- I think so, I mean when these 
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they take take up a lot more 
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And they're just gonna add

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that much more beauty to the 
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that European style arrangement

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that I think people are dying to 
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- [J] What's the lasting 
quality on these guys?

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- [Chad] Definitely 10 plus 
days on the garden roses.

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- Wow! 
- Some even more,

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just depending on the petal 
structure that it has.

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- [J] So what's your favorite 
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about being a California flower 
farmer?

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- Being able to produce 
an American grown product

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and offer an American 
grown rose to the consumer.

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And hearing and seeing the 
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and to be one of the California 
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still producing roses, is 
definitely very exciting for us.

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And we're very excited about the 
future

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for California grown roses as 
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- Flowers can set a romantic 
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and it's not just about 
couples for a dinner party

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or patio entertaining,

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it's perfect to have romantic 
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And one of the ways that we can 
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about romantic flowers 
is through fragrance.

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Gardenias for example, 
have an intoxicating aroma.

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These are one of my favorite 
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and they're super easy to design 
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As a kid, we grew gardenias 
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If a bride wanted them for her 
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my grandfather would 
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to make sure that we had them.

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So having the smell of 
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brings fond memories.

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The gardenias that I'm using 
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which means they're cut on the 
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You might be familiar 
with seeing gardenias

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in a little box with just the 
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But this way with the stem 
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we can cut flowers 
through in a bud like this

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and the bud will open up in the 
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Which means we get a lot longer 
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so we can enjoy something 
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for five or six days.

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There's nothing quite like 
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or falling to sleep to 
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Another fragrant flower

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that's one of my favorites is 
the freesia.

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Freesia bulb flower, and they 
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opening all the way out to the 
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They have a very interesting 
unique fragrance.

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As a little kid we grew 
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and when the freesia were in 
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you'd go in the greenhouse and 
that's all you could smell.

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Some people say they 
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and I think that's pretty 
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They come in a wide variety of 
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the colored freesia are more 
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that isn't normally the 
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but with freesia it happens to 
be.

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For this arrangement, we 
have all these little vases

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and they're attached to the 
tray.

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So I'll fill each one with a 
different color of freesia.

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This is great because you could 
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in the middle of the table,

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and wherever people run into 
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they're gonna be able to 
smell these beautiful flowers.

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Having flowers around the 
house in different spots

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can also evoke romance depending 
upon where they're placed.

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The other way to approach 
romance with flowers

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is by the shape of the 
arrangement we create.

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These beautiful roses have 
been made into a heart shape

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and the heart symbol 
itself, becomes romantic.

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Floating flowers are another 
way for us to add romance

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and there's nothing better

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than adding candlelight to a 
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So a floating candle, and 
floating flowers

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is perfect for your dining room 
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Roses are also romantic,

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and another way to add 
romance to your bath

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is to add rose petals.

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I like to choose organic 
varieties or grow them myself

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and then place those fragrant 
petals into the bath.

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So you see there's all kinds of 
choices

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when we want to add romance 
to our Life In Bloom.

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Today for flower cocktail 
hour, I'm joined by chef Jenna,

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she owns an Italian restaurant

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with her husband Maurizio, 
it's called Amore.

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You inspired me for my book.

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- Yes.

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Fun with Flowers to create rose 
cello.

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- Yes.

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- So today, I created 
a rose infused vodka.

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- I'm kind of loving that.

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- Right, 'cause roses are 
romantic.

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- So romantic, and it's 
crazy but they taste good.

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- The process for this was 
that we took potato vodka

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and I added fragrant red 
rose petals every day

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or as often as I could.

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I grew them outside so 
I could govern them,

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make sure they're organic.

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And then, I added them 
when I had them available

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pull the petals off,

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I didn't leave the pollen 
or the stems on them.

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- Okay.

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- And mixed it in for six weeks.

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- Perfect, look at that color.

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- So yeah, so then at that 
point in time you have,

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and the petals are inside

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they remain intact but 
they lose all their color.

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So that's the essence 
of that red coloration.

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- I really like this 'cause 
the first time we did it

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we did it with the pink roses

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and it didn't have that 
beautiful 
color that this one does.

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- Right, right so you and 
I both have this thing

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about processed foods.

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- Yes.

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- And you use all that local 
stuff at your restaurant.

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- If you know where it comes 
from,

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it somehow that tastes better.

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- Yeah, and better for you.

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- It's way better for you yes.

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- So then I used local honey 
from Michigan

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and made a simple syrup of 
Oklahoma.

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- I love that, look at you!

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- Right, right, so then I add,

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so we had two bottles of potato 
vodka.

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So 1/4 cup of simple syrup, 
so 1/2 cup for the two.

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And then I just put it in this 
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this is reclaimed bottle

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that I had. 
- It's really cute.

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- So then we have it as a 
cocktail.

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When you taste it, it tastes 
like vodka

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but it also tastes the 
way that a rose smells.

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- It does.

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- That's the best, the best 
way that I can think about.

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- And I found this 
recipe in a very old book

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that was all in Italian 
about homemade liqueurs.

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And the little story near 
it was just about how

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women would make this and in the 
afternoon

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when their husbands would 
creep out for coffee,

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they pour that stuff,

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on their drink. 
- I love it.

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It's perfect. 
- I know.

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- So our husbands are away.

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- Right.

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We're having a little cocktail.

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- That's right. 
- That's what we do.

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- Ice here, there we go all 
right.

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So, I thought a little, 
a little rose spritzer.

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- What's better than that?

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- Right? 
- It's making me thirsty.

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- So two water, well I'm coming.

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- There you go, I feel 
like we should garnish it

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with like a rose petal or 
something.

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- We could do that. 
- Right.

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- We can do that hold on.

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- Wouldn't that be pretty and 
romantic?

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- [J] It would be.

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- Are we gonna have a drink?

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- We are. 
- Salute!

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- Really we're home alone. 
- I know right.

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(laughing) 
Wow!

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You get the rose right at the 
beginning.

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- It's true. 
- And it stays

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through to the end.

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I would drink this.

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- It reminds me so much of what 
you fixed

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that day you came to visit.

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- It's so good with the soda, I 
love that.

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- Yeah, it's delicious.

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Why do you think people think

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that Italian restaurants are so 
romantic?

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What's the connection?

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- In general, Italy is romantic 
place

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and it's always been kind of,

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especially if you haven't 
visited Italy

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you just picture it as a 
beautiful romantic place.

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If you see movies or 
the models that you see

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and all the magazines and 
everything.

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And I think a place called 
Amore is already romantic.

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The reason we called tt Amore is 
because

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that's what Maurizio 
and I call each other.

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Like it's our pet name.

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And we didn't realize how 
awesome it was, that it was 
Amore

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because once we were in the 
phone book

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we were number one on the list.

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Because alphabetically, we came 
up,

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we were like, "This was a double 
bonus!"

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Because if we're at an event or 
anything

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Amore comes up first.

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- Right, right.

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So Jenna, I have a tradition.

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- I love traditions.

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- With flower crowns, which you 
know about my flower crowns.

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- I love, my profile pic is a 
flower crown

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your flower crown right now.

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All right you'll have 
to position it for me.

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- Oh, it looks good. 
- Like that?

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- Oh yeah! 
- Okay.

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(laughing)

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- Mama is in the house. 
- I know, right.

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- Right, right. 
- It's perfect.

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- Okay, so cheers. 
- Cheers to flower crowns.

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- And to Amore.

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Another romantic flower is 
lavender.

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That smell is wonderful,

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and we can use lavender when we 
cook.

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Whether we make an elixir 
that can be added to cocktails

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or we can actually use the 
flower buds in cookies.

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So today we'll create 
some romantic cookies

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using lavender buds and lemon 
zest.

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Keep your flowers away 
from the fruit bowl,

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fruit gives off ethylene 
a ripening hormone.

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this causes flowers to age more 
quickly.

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When I think about fragrant 
flowers,

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I think about the phrase, 
stop and smell the roses.

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I think it's important for us

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to take time to smell the 
flowers,

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and it's wonderful when the 
flowers

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smell as beautiful as they look.

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Many people claim the phrase 
stop and smell the roses

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dates back over a century or 
more.

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The story goes that two ladies 
were standing in their yards

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one was discussing how much 
labor

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went into creating the 
garden that she had,

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the other neighbor suggested 
that she perhaps step back

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and look at the beauty

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she had created with all of that 
labor,

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and take time to stop and smell 
the roses.

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The phrase gained prominence 
again in 1957

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in Walter Hagen's biography.

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The golfer told us 
don't hurry, don't worry

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and be sure to stop and smell 
the flowers.

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So everything we have on the 
table today

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is a fragrant flower.

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We've got stock, we have lilies, 
roses,

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wax flower and a couple types of 
foliages

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that also have fragrance as 
well.

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This bouquet will certainly 
fill a room with fragrance.

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First we'll start with 
senagrania,

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I love this 'cause it has a 
wonderful minty fragrance.

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I like that the stock has 
an herbal smell as well.

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It smells like cloves, 
some people say cinnamon.

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This wax flower has such 
a unique fresh fragrance.

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This some melaleuca foliage

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and what's interesting about 
this is,

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when you strip down the foliage

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it has almost a eucalyptus type 
smell.

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It smells real fresh and clean 
again,

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it matches really well

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with the clove, the cinnamon, 
the mint.

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Now it's time for our roses.

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What's interesting about the 
rose itself

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is that the thorns are 
associated with the fragrance.

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I'm gonna drop a few beautiful 
lilies down inside here too.

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That's a beautiful arrangement

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sure to fill an entire 
room with fragrance.

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As you can see romance can be 
a part of your day-to-day life

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through arrangements, 
self-care food or drink.

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Flowers are ready to bring

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their fragrant beauty 
into your living space.

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For Life In Bloom, I'm J 
Schwanke, see you next time.

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(mumbles)

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- [Crew] Ready?

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- Yep.

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- It's so romantic, it was 
perfect too,

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it was so much fun.

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- Yeah, it was a whole lot of 
fun.

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- Okay Chris, I need to get 
flower crowns

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they are in the other 
preparation.

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Okay.

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- Will I have another drink? 
- Go ahead.

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- Yeah, that's about it. 
- Okay.

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Okay.

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- Day drinking, hashtag day 
drinking.

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(laughing)

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To flower crowns. 
- And to Amore.

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- Almost got the petal stuck to 
my lips.

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- [Narrator] J Schwanke's Life 
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