Flower Frogs

I first read about flower frogs in the chapter about Dorothy Twining Globus (a megacollector) in Mitch Tuchman's Magnificent Obsessions. Interestingly, she has several flower frogs, but considers them an accumulation rather than a collection, such as:
Doorstops, which inspired my Whimsical Doorstop Collection
Cigarette Cards
Globes (because her last name is Globus)
and many more than I can list here.

So what, exactly, are flower frogs?
Flower frogs are objects for keeping flower stems in place.They're made to to be placed in the bottom of a vase, and can be reused. For this reason, many  florists use them now instead of floral foam.

And flower frogs are also my 120th collection, started this morning.
 

All Kinds Of Collectors (Old Post, Slightly Modified)

People of all ages, from every walk of life, collect
things.
A four year old girl, for example, may just this week
have started collecting stickers, or perhaps paper
dolls, while her great-grandmother has been
collecting buttons for more than eighty years.

There are collectors who concentrate on only
one thing, such as postcards, while other
collect several, or even many, different things.
I, of course, belong to the latter group.

Wealthy people are able to collect costly items,
while those with less money content themselves
with things that are inexpensive, or even free.
Some collectors are completists, while others,
like me, are selective. I don’t add anything that
doesn’t appeal to me to any of my collections.

Some folks have only, or mostly, physical collections,
while others, again including myself, have mostly
online collections.
But all of us collectors hunt for things to add to our collections,and all of feel a thrill when we find an extra special item.

And I believe that our collecting hobbies make our
lives more spicy.