Flowers Make the Heart Smile!
From winter to summer to fall and beyond we have the pleasure of brilliant color and fantastic fragrance. Flowers come in every variety for every season. Flowers are indoors and outdoors.
Our mood is influenced by the sight or smell of a flower from previous memories of that same smell or color. We can decorate our gardens/yards with a variety of plants to create a visual background for extending our homes. We can lift the spirit of someone who is having a rough time, ill, or at a crossroads in their life.
Flowers come in all varieties and sizes. You can find a nature flower in nearly any natural color - not those neon hot colors. Let me show you the variance in flowers for your pleasure.
Our mood is influenced by the sight or smell of a flower from previous memories of that same smell or color. We can decorate our gardens/yards with a variety of plants to create a visual background for extending our homes. We can lift the spirit of someone who is having a rough time, ill, or at a crossroads in their life.
Flowers come in all varieties and sizes. You can find a nature flower in nearly any natural color - not those neon hot colors. Let me show you the variance in flowers for your pleasure.
Contents at a Glance
- Flowers of Indiana around Indiana
- The holiday season is on us. Think about presents that last all year.
- Fall Flowers are Blooming - Plan Spring
Flowers of Indiana around Indiana
Year round - is a flower just the bloom or the foilage too?
Such variety - from clumps of flowers around the road to formal plantings - there are many flowers to enjoy.
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The holiday season is on us. Think about presents that last all year.
Your gift giving can be so simple for those close or far - sent a gift certificate or a packet of bulbs that are ready when they need them.
To have lovely flowers in the spring you must plant bulbs in the fall. Then the flowers will peak through in the spring when it is still cold out.
Fall Flowers are Blooming - Plan Spring
1. Dream
2. Stroll your Flowerbeds
3. Make note of wanted spring color
4. Get some bulbs
5. Plant bulbs for early spring
A great way to start is to learn what you can about varieties and color planning.
A deep snowy day is a great time to have a book in hand to think toward spring!
The Flower Gardener's Bible: Time-Tested Techniques, Creative Designs, and Perfect Plants for Colorful Gardens
Amazon Price: $18.15 (as of 01/04/2010)
This book is a broad overview of types of flowers, how to place them and best combinations. A good basis for your flower library.
Visual Pleasure Can Please Your Senses
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A perennial cutting garden is at the heart of every flower arranger.
Wether you are an at home flower gatherer or a professional - it is fun to do.
Garden to Vase: Growing and Using Your Own Cut Flowers
Amazon Price: $19.77 (as of 01/04/2010)
Variety is the spice of life - or the flower vase. Look to a variety and not just the old stand-bys. You can look beyond your 'flowers' but also use shoots, sprouts, and 'weeds' from the ditchbank. Have fun with your arranging.
Wearing flowers can be next best to smelling them!
These are a few available from Cafe Press
Nana Mug
Price: 11.99
Vibrant Flora "Dream" (11) Women's V-Neck T-Shirt
Price: 24.99
Peonies Messenger Bag
Price: 22.99
Hibiscus blue Women's T-Shirt
Price: 20.99
April Cherry Blossoms Women's Light T-Shirt
Price: 24.99
Are you into "Arranging" or just having fun in displaying flowers?
There are lots of decorating ideas that are 'out side the box' or vase as it might be.
Creativity with Flowers: Interior Decoration
Amazon Price: (as of 01/04/2010)
Decorating goes on year round. Silk can step in for the not so available freshcut flowers for winter but sit on a shelf in the closet when fresh is available. Change is the spice of life and will freshen your look around the house.
Just what makes something a flower?
A definition from Wikipedia:
"A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds. The process begins with pollination, is followed by fertilization, leading to the formation and dispersal of the seeds. For the higher plants, seeds are the next generation, and serve as the primary means by which individuals of a species are dispersed across the landscape. The grouping of flowers on a plant are called the inflorescence.In addition to serving as the reproductive organs of flowering plants, flowers have long been admired and used by humans, mainly to beautify their environment but also as a source of food."
Gifts from flowers, foliage and the garden.
Holidays are coming and where can you give your personal touch?
Harvesting, Preserving & Arranging Dried Flowers
Amazon Price: (as of 01/04/2010)
Bringing the fall garden into the winter home is a great thing. It also makes for some great presents for friends and family. Or just share the book!
The Floral Touch Available at E-Bay
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There are many places to learn for about various flowers.
You might learn how to grow them, where they grow, or what their season is.
There are so many sources for information and so many areas to be interested in. From growing flowers to arranging them for a special occasion or making corsages we each have our own interests. An artist might just want to paint, a gardener wants to till the soil to keep them healthy, and a child wants to roll in the bed. Just a few sources are here for you.
- Burpee Seeds
- One of my favorite ways to learn about various flowers and other plants is to read the discriptions in the seed catelogs. I can't wait for the new ones to arrive in early January.
- Flowers.vg
- This great site offers free pictures of flowers for background or wallpaper on your monitor. Brighten your day and stop in to enjoy the view.
- Gardening With Perennials
- Get all the information you need for what perennials you can grow in your location, how to place them for continued color and variety, and suggestions on care.
- Cooperative Extension Service
- I'm really a farm girl growing up and still at heart. The best resource we had for growing anything was the Extension Office, sometimes called the 4-H Office. They will help you with the scientific information you might need, pest control, growing seasons, and care. Every state has an Extension Office and the services are free for all. Locate the office in community or learn more on the web.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher
Breck's is a Great Source for cut flowers!
Grandma's Cutting Garden will add color to your garden all summer.
Remember that a good flower bed takes year round planning. A great Christmas present for that 'what do I buy for' aunt, uncle, grandmother, or friend might be a gift certificate or package for bulbs from a great place like Breck's! Year round joy for a Holiday thought.
Hope you enjoyed the flowers and that they inspired you.
You might be inspired to make a more in depth lens about flowers, buy a bouquet or go home to attend the beds. Thanks for stopping by and feel free to give your opinion. Thanks.
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- windowbox windowbox Oct 20, 2008 @ 5:57 am
- Flowering always attract me and i do it continuous in each season...i would like to share to the viewer who dont have good space at home for gardening they can go for the container gardening and by using all the forms of container gardening like http://www.squidoo.com/everythingflowery, Flower window Box, Box Planter.....they can bring beauty for the house..
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- beeobrien beeobrien Sep 24, 2008 @ 10:49 am
- Makes me want to do some gardening. In my part of the country, it's time to do that again.
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- vbright105 vbright105 Sep 20, 2008 @ 12:50 pm
- Very pretty flowers!
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- stargazer00 stargazer00 Aug 19, 2008 @ 4:10 pm
- I love all the color and variety of flowers. A retired floral designer. Nice lens!
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