It’s been such a pleasure catching up with my niece; today she emailed me with a tantalising snippet of information that she’d come across in a design magazine called Provider. There was a piece about a Dutch ‘flower engineer’ called Andreas Verheijen, who creates new flowers by combining the best parts of different flowers. He calls the results ‘transgender flowers’ and from the three small pictures that my niece sent me, they really are gorgeous.
I’ve been unable to find anything else about him on the web, so will simply quote my niece’s closing line: “transgender = beauty!”
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Later edit: It’s probably not necessary, but just in case – I do not believe for a minute that these are truly ‘transgendered’ flowers, at least, not in the sense that I understand it. (Wikipedia has quite a comprehensive definition, whilst The 519 has a slightly more succinct version).
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©2008 Helen G
June 1, 2008 at 12:14 am
Ahh, so glad to hear that things are going well with your neice
June 10, 2008 at 10:05 am
glad the pictures were of use! i think this makes a beautiful entry!