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Saying it with flowers

Nursing students took a break from the sick room to take part in a colourful competition

PHOTO S. SIVA SARAVANAN

COLOUR POWER It was a chance for nursing students to display their talents in a different field

Flowers have a special way of communicating. They speak through their colours. And when they surround you, you feel you too have entered their world of silent communion. Those of you who love flowers will agree.

A group of students decided to let the flowers do the talking at a flower-arrangement contest held at Sri Ramakrishna College of Paramedical Sciences recently. Roses, carnations, gladioli, lilies and even the most inconspicuous flowers you find on the roadside got a chance to adorn the tables neatly laid out for the contest. The inter-collegiate competition for nursing students had participants from various nursing colleges from Coimbatore and other parts of Tamil Nadu.

"You could make a bouquet even with a single flower and a piece of fern. It depends on how you present it," said Velentina Pheiroijam from Manipur.

A third year nursing student at Vivekananda College, she believed that arranging flowers in living rooms was just to make people smile and that you needn't have expensive flowers for that. She stuck leaves to her little basket of flowers to make it look different.

Elaine Melvina, a third year student at R.V.S College of Nursing won the first prize for her unique presentation. Instead of making a large bouquet with a lot of flowers, she made four small ones, each different from the other.

Cutting out tiny fronds from potted palms, she arranged a bunch of bright red anthuriums, which set off the green colour of the palm leaves perfectly.

The participants were given an hour for arranging the flowers. The visual appeal and the time taken to arrange the flowers were the criteria for deciding the winners, said Suganthi Selvam, Associate professor at Sri Ramakrishna College.

The freshness of the flowers was also taken into account, she added. The contest had about ten participants.

ANASUYA MENON

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