{"id":13594,"date":"2025-12-18T13:24:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/?p=13594"},"modified":"2025-12-18T13:47:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:47:39","slug":"beautiful-belated-birthday-blooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2025\/12\/beautiful-belated-birthday-blooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Belated Birthday Blooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month on Sunday the 16th, I celebrated my 44th birthday. My husband and I go to pub trivia every Monday with some friends and the day after my birthday, our friends Kelsey and Emilie showed up with this beautiful bouquet of zinnias from their garden for me. I knew I wanted to make an arrangement with them as soon as I got home!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/birthday-blooms.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13593 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/birthday-blooms-850x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/birthday-blooms-850x850.jpg 850w, https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/birthday-blooms-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/birthday-blooms-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/birthday-blooms-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/birthday-blooms-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/birthday-blooms.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a>The colours they planted just happen to be the same ones in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lesbian_flags\">lesbian sunset pride flag<\/a>, (which we all had a good chuckle about) so I figured this rainbow-shaped vase would be the perfect vessel. 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I knew\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2025\/12\/beautiful-belated-birthday-blooms\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545],"tags":[73,546,68,13,70,1309,1310,1311],"class_list":["post-13594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ikebana","tag-birthday","tag-ikebana","tag-orange","tag-pink","tag-white","tag-zinnia","tag-1310","tag-1311"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Beautiful Belated Birthday Blooms - \u7740\u7269\u6708 Kimono Tsuki<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2025\/12\/beautiful-belated-birthday-blooms\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beautiful Belated Birthday Blooms - \u7740\u7269\u6708 Kimono Tsuki\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last month on Sunday the 16th, I celebrated my 44th birthday. 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