Hunting for a memory! For a nostalgia hamper

vickygriff

Hi All,

I have posted on Yahoo Answers to no avail, so am hoping someone here can help. Am going hampering crazy at the mo, and am making a nostalgic one for my sister, who is three years younger than me. We were children in the 70s, and I remember us loving this particular thing that I am trying to get hold of soooo much that I know it would really make her Christmas if I could find one.

In my memory it was called something like a Japanese or Chinese Water Garden. It came in a box I think, and inside were all these colourful very tightly rolled bits of paper. You filled a large bowl with water, and poured them in and it looked like a floating garden blooming. We thought it was absolutely magical.

I have searched online for all variations of what I thought it was called, and have been to Hawkin's Bazaar, which I thought was the most obvious place, but with no luck.

Does anyone else remember them? :huh:

Thanks in Advance

Vicky

wendywitch

Is it this?http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tobar-Magic-Garden/dp/B000H6QSV2

vickygriff

wendywitch wrote: »

Is it this?http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tobar-Magic-Garden/dp/B000H6QSV2

No, but thank you for looking for me. I have seen these - and they're pretty aren't they? I would just love to find the exact thing - which probably doesn't even exist any more - whatever it was called! Lol:rolleyes:

Vicky

moo2moo

Theres a DIY guide to them here:

http://brightest-kidz.squarespace.com/journal/2008/10/3/lets-grow-a-magic-crystal-garden.html

cazpumpkin

you can buy ONE individual flower which blossoms in water, in the stocking fillers section of hawkins ,as i bought one for my daughter a while back , maybe just buy a few packets?

mary43

vicky - what a lovely idea............I'd be interested to know what else you put in it.
My two boys were both children in the 1970's - they seem to remember what was 'in' then far better than I do. Be a lovely pressie for them next year.

annie123

I remember those

you got a large selection of paper flowers to put in a bowl and they opened, they looked beautiful.

I will have a hunt round and post back here if I find them.

vickygriff

annie123 wrote: »

I remember those

you got a large selection of paper flowers to put in a bowl and they opened, they looked beautiful.

I will have a hunt round and post back here if I find them.

Thank you! A few heads are better than one.At least I know I wan't imagining them!

Re the Hawkins ones- I have found a single flower for £9.99 - it's bit dear to buy a few.

bunbun2

I must be too young Vicky cos I don't remember them:rotfl:

starbump

I think this might be what you're searching for:

http://www.shinegallery.com/ocjawafl1pa1.html

http://www.esnarf.com/4848k.htm

"Occupied Japan Water Flowers"

Mme.Hibou

I'm pretty sure that's not what she's after. They were coiled up bits of paper, you'd put them into a dish of water and they'd open up.
I was a child born in '82 and I had some, as did my friend round the corner who was older.

This is what they opened up into