Plant of the Day: Song of India Leaf

I don't know why this leaf is called as 'Song of India' in Indonesia, maybe it's from India, who knows?. As I know, it belongs to dracaena. Dracaena Reflexa is its Latin name. For florists, 'SOI' is often used as filler as it's very effective to cover the wet foam. It'll make a big flower arrangements look full in a moment and also doesn't look monotonous because of its colourful color of leaves (usually green with light yellow in the edge). Imagine if  there are only flowers in  a flower arrangements without any greenish at all, so boring right? 

From appearance 'SOI' plant looks like 'suji' leaf, which famous as natural color for food in Indonesia.

The Divine Mercy Sunday

A week after the Easter Sunday is the feast of Divine Mercy or in Indonesian it's called as 'Hari Raya Kerahiman Ilahi'. Actually, it's preceded by Novena to The Divine Mercy during 9 days in a row which begins on Good Friday. And a different intention of the souls will be prayed each day.

After 9 days held Novena to The Divine Mercy, St. Peter Cathedral Church is now getting ready with the feast. A big picture of the Divine Mercy placed on the right side of the altar and so was a long flower arrangement.

These are the pictures of The Divine Mercy up close

Overall look and detail pictures of the big Easter candle which placed beside Altar.

This is the flower arrangement in front of the announcer table.

The overall look of the flower arrangement in front of Mary statue (left image) and the close up (right image). From different point of view, the statue of Mary here looks more charming, doesn't it?

The flower arrangement in front of the psalmist

The materials used are lilies, anthurium, hydrangea, gerbera, spray carnation, roses, shamrock, sena, ivy, schefflera and dracaena.

Church Decor by Team Margriet