Saturday, January 15, 2011

Flowers

I remember driving in the Netherlands seeing flowers for sale everywhere, they were displayed in front of gas stations, all over markets, and it was nice. In Cambodia flowers are not everywhere but they are definitely easy to find. Some of the varieties are not anything I have ever seen before.

In North America and Europe you purchase flowers from a store. Flowers may be displayed in front of the store but there is a store there somewhere. In Cambodia that's not the case. Vendors set up on the street under an umbrella. I don't know what they do with the flowers at night but during the day they are under umbrellas on the street. There are several flower vendors along the street next the Oruseey market.

Labor is cheap in Cambodia, I have watched women carefully turning back each individual pedals of flowers to make a very interesting design.

Note the elegant blue plastic display stand. 

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