Transvaal daisy

The Volkswagen Beetles, right? That's what you're talking about.

So earlier models actually had a little place where you could put the Gerber Daisy like in the car, like with their bright, happy colors.

Yeah.

That is so cool.

This is probably one of the most popular greenhouse grown flowers in our part of the world right now.

Um there are so many greenhouses in my area that grow Gerberas.

I think the plant is originally from Africa.

There's a couple reasons why they grow it as a cut flower.

Gerberas are popular cut flowers available in almost every color.

I think they there's no blue or but almost every other color there and used in cheerful bouquets and floral arrangements.

So they last a long time in a bouquet.

I walked right past my favorite Gerber daisies.

They were sitting there on the table, smack dab in the middle of the table, and I completely missed them.

And that's exactly what we do when we're in the rebuild.

That is toxic positivity.

I absolutely hate it.

But what you can do is let it all go, and then find stability in one minute, one moment, one Gerber daisy that you almost walked by.

And it might only last for a minute at a time, but it's a muscle that we train, and the more we train it, the more we find our next flower, and our next cloud, and our next happy moment, the more we start to string these pieces together.

And the more tiny moments that we string together, the better and better every day gets.

You know, during September 12 and September 13, the Ukrainian Air Force re- reported 453 Russian unmanned aircraft in a, in a single attack pattern.

Ukraine said these included Shahed drones, jet-powered drones, Gerberas, uh, Paradia decoys, and the S-8000 Banderol system.

Kyiv said 405 were shot down or suppressed, but it acknowledged strikes at 13 locations and debris at seven others.

So the launching directions were from Russian areas of Shatalovo, Oryol, Kursk, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk in Russia and occupied the Crimea and the Sea of Azov.

So he was the world's first breeder of the Gourmini.

That's a mini flowering Gerbera.

And I am always raised about with plants without knowing that I really love them.

So, but also my parents were always in interaction with people.

So that was just not a nice experience.

And from that moment, I thought, well, I don't want to be the child of the parents that just get the business.

So my father, before he started this business, he was breeding at that company for the Gerberas.

And they said, if you are successful with this new Gerbera, you will get a part of the royalty.

There was a rolling gray sky overhead.

And in my hands, I was holding a orange Gerber daisy.

And then a few weeks later, we found out my father's pancreatic cancer had returned.

And then he only had a month to live.

And when he died, my stepmom actually selected a bouquet of orange Gerber daisies to go on his casket as he was buried.

Second one that comes to mind was a small one.

I had a dream that my mother was also in a coffin.

The second one is in bloom on Jekyll because they end up opening a flower shop on the island, which is what I did on Vieques.

There was only one flower guy on the island and he wouldn't work with Gerber Daisies.

And it was what was on the cover of Martha Stewart that year.

So everybody wanted Gerber Daisies.

And this guy was like, I'm not doing that for your Kmart brides.

Cause you know, Martha was in Kmart's.

We can't do that right now.

We have got to be moving with these things, especially right now when we got a 50% tariff on Gerberas and snaps coming out of Canada.

We have got to be adjusting that.

So either we have to find an alternative source, go to a lower quality, or raise our prices to make up for that.

So that was another reason to choose it.

And then there's a bunch of 3d models online that were a perfect, uh, one-to-one, uh, comp for this particular red Gerbera Daisy.

And so there's some VF, a lot of VFX in this too, hopefully invisible, but, um, that was another, you know, this whole film was basically all MoGraph people, uh, for the most part.

And except for our, our, our makeup effects artists and a couple of production people, but all of the core crew, my key collaborator from the beginning, my, um, um, Evan, uh, he helped me kind of break story and we kind of motivated each other early on.