Flowers
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Flowers are the best of creations by the creator. There are people who believe in god and there are who doesn't. There are people who read a lot and there are who think it's waste of time. There are people who crave for wine and there are many who hate it like anything. But are there any who doesn't love and admire the beauty of flowers? I can confidently say "No". Even those who doesn't have much appeal for aesthetics, will admire flowers. It is so because they are flowers! flowers!! and just flowers!!!
My love for flowers is unending and infinite, so also is my passion to speak about them. I would like to take pleasure in this activity of spreading the fragrance of the very word "FLOWER".
Amazon Video on Decorating with flowers!
Renny Reynolds, a flower designer who worked for many years at the White House, bestows upon us his wealth of knowledge in the world of floral design. This excellent 70-minute video guides you through a garden's worth of flowers, pointing out names and demonstrating how they can be displayed. Picking the right flower, cutting it correctly, and placing it expertly in the container are just a few of the tidbits you‹ll learn. Reynolds, while a little stilted in his delivery, is incredibly informative as he takes us to a variety of houses to see how flower arrangements can change a room, and discover how the size and color of a bouquet make a tremendous difference in its placement in a room. Also, Reynolds creates a topiary centerpiece that is both oddly creative and easy to make. Use this video to help construct your own floral masterpieces.
Different flowers carry different meanings!!
Did you know flowers have meanings associated with them? And, that there are flowers befitting specific occasions?Flowers are used at weddings to symbolize love, loyalty and longevity. For more than 50,000 years, people have placed flowers on the graves of their loved ones as a sign of respect and remembrance. In Christianity the white Easter lily symbolizes purity. Buddhists and Hindus regard the lotus, a water lily, as a sacred flower. Universally, red roses denote romantic love. Various varieties and colors of roses denote different meanings. Flowers speak a million languages through the implied flower meanings.
Meanings were associated to the colors of flowers as well during the Victorian era. Flower Meanings signified one's feelings when choosing flowers for someone to send to. Most people do not consider Flower Meanings before picking flowers. They are attracted to the flowers' visual appeal and fragrance rather than the Flower Meanings.
Here are the meanings of some flowers:
Learn more flower meanings...
The flower and gardening sites I like
There are thousands of sites on flowers and gardening. But only a few are worth-browsing. These are some of those sites I like.
- The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia
- A wonderful resource on flowers. It covers everything about flowers and gardening. We can simply go to The Flower Expert for any information on flowers - whether it be about an individual flower, growing flowers, buying flowers, gifting flowers, or flower care...
- Flower Growing Guides
- Guides to 269 flowers and foliage plants...
Each profile contains a detailed description and growing instructions, site and soil requirements, varieties, and special uses. - National Gardening Association
- NGA is a leading national provider of K-12, plant-based educational materials. With teachers and community leaders serving as guides
- BBC Gardening
- The site is apart of the BBC network and provides detailed information on thousands of plants in and useful growing tips for plants.
The fragrance of flowers
The flowers are admired for many reasons, the most important of which is their unique and unforgettable fragrances of individual flowers!!
- Fragrances of flowers
- Flowers have evolved into specialized pollination machines. Some cross-pollinated plants are anemopholous, or wind-pollinated. These plants tend to have inconspicuous flowers and produce a lot of pollen, because wind currents can not selectively identify which plants are receptive to specific pollen. On the other hand, flowers pollinated by insects (entomophilous flowers) often advertise themselves. One way to advertise is by colors. Another interesting way to advertise is by flower fragrances...
- How do flowers create their unique fragrances?
- Each fragrance is a
combination of a number of chemicals, but most of them are from a large
and diverse family of molecules known as terpenes. Chemically, terpenes
are composed of different numbers and types of 5-carbon chains. All
plants make some terpenoid compounds, specifically chlorophyll and the
carotenoids needed for photosynthesis... - Using Fragrant Plants to Lure Insects and Other Critters Into the Garden
- Plants employ not just scent but also visual cues like flower color to facilitate reproduction. But it appears that during the early days of floral evolution, fragrance, not color, was the principal allure. Beetles achieved the pinnacle of insect evolution during the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods, when flowering plants were first evolving...
- Unforgettable garden fragrances
- A guide to 18 scented flowers our readers can't forget: Lilacs, Jasmines, Jessamines, Roses,...
Exotic Tropicals
Breathtaking Exotic Flowers and plants add that extra special touch to gardens, homes, and all ocassions - weddings, celebrtions, banquets, as well as solemn occasions. Here is a list of some wonderful exotic tropical flowers with a detailed description about each one of them.
- Amaryllis flowers
- Amaryllis is a monotypic (consisting of only one species) genus of flowering plants containing the Belladonna Lily, popularly known as the Amaryllis belladonna lily. Amaryllis is native of South and Central America and the Caribbean. Amaryllis belladonna is a very colorful and showy flower and hence the flower is symbolically used to represent the meanings - "splendid beauty" or "pride"...
- Anthuriums
- Anthuriums have been cultivated for many decades for cut flower production. Since the mid 1980's, Anthurium's popularity as a flowering pot plant has increased dramatically and has become a popular addition to many foliage growers' product lines. Anthuriums are relatively easy to grow, have attractive foliage and under the proper environment, produce long lasting flowers year round...
- Birds of Paradise
- The unusually beautiful shape and brilliant colors of Birds of Paradise have made these flowers not just a designer's favorite, but also a popular symbol of paradise. The popular Birds-of-Paradise plant bears a unique flower that resembles a brightly colored bird in flight, giving it the common name, Bird of Paradise. The Birds-of-Paradise flowers make the plant an exceptionally attractive landscape plant...
- Blue Jacaranda
- The Blue Jacaranda, also known as Brazilian rose wood or green ebony, are seen as clusters of blue tubular flowers. Blue Jacaranda are natives of Northwestern Argentina and adjacent Bolivia, and are also widely found in Brazil, Peru and other surrounding tropical regions. Blue jacaranda flowers are widely grown for its ornamental value...
- Calla Lily
- Calla lilies are one of the most beautiful flowers with a unique form of the flower, coming in a wide array of clors. Callas are also known by such other common names viz., arum lily, trumpet lily, Pig lily. Calla lilies are native to South Africa, which are easy to grow bulb or rhizome plants...
- Passion Flower
- Passion flower is one of the most admired flowers, indeed one of the admired most creations of God. Passion flower is dubbed to have inspired many poets. The Passion Flower (Passiflora), a fast-growing perennial vine, with showy white and purple-blue scented flowers. Passion flower is tropical flower, native to southern Brazil and Argentina. It is also widely found from Virginia to southern Illinois and southeast Kansas, south to Florida and Texas in USA...
- Chrysanthemum flowers
- Chrysanthemums are one of the most popular flowers in the world, next only to the Rose. Chrysanthemum was named by Carolus Linnaeus from two Greek prefixes, 'Chrys', which means golden (the color of the original flowers), and 'anthemon', meaning flower...
- Frangipani (Plumeria)
- Plumeria flowers are most fragrant at night in order to lure sphinx moths to pollinate them. The flowers have no nectar, and simply dupe their pollinators. The flowers are pollinated as the moths inadvertently transfer pollen from flower to flower in their fruitless search for nectar...
- Hibiscus (China Rose)
- Hibiscus is the National Flower of Malaysia. It is the native flower of Hawaii. Hibiscus is considered the Queen of the Tropics. Hibiscus grow wild in many tropical, subtropical, and warm-temperate regions around the world...
- Morning Glories
- The Morning-Glory Family (Convolvulaceae) contains at least 50 genera and more than 1000 species, from high-climbing vines and woody lianas of the tropical rain forest to prostrate, trailing perennials. They decorate our fences, trellises and walls with lush green foliage and colorful funnel-shaped blossoms, and form lovely green carpets of dichondra lawn. Several vines of this family provide us with valuable and nutritious root crops, including a Mexican jicama and sweet potatoes...
- Sampaguita flowers
- Sampaguita (Jasminum sambac) is a sweetly scented tropical flower. Belonging to the wide genus of Jasmines (Jasminum), Sampaguita is the common name of the species Jasminum sambac. Sampaguita is also known as Philippine Jasmine, Arabian jasmine, Pikake in Hawaii, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Kampupot, and Melati ...
- Tulips
- Tulips are one of the most popular spring flowers of all time, and the third most popular flowers world-wide next only to the Rose and Chrysanthemum. Tulips come in an incredible variety of colors, heights, and flower shapes. Some Tulips are even fragrant...
- Heliconias
- The inflorescence of Heliconia is the usual focus of interest because it is not only complex; it is usually very colorful to humans and of course to its pollinators the hummingbirds and insects. The boat-like bracts are colorful, usually in hues of red, yellow, orange and even pink or combinations of these mixed with green markings and various splashes...
- Gingers
- Gingers are one of the most beautiful and colorful flowers in the world of flowers. Botanically, Ginger is a rhizome of the perennial herb which is indigenous to the South west coast of India and the Malabar coast of the state of Kerala. Gingers, a multifaceted herb, enjoy a special position in the botanical kingdom with their elegance in form, texture, sparkling color, and amazing symmetry...
- Orchids
- The Orchids are one of the most exquisite and fascinating flowers in the world. In fact, so fascinated is the world with the Orchids that many countries have adopted different varieties of orchids as their respective National Flowers. Orchids are proliferated across most countries. The orchid flowers are especially prolific in the tropics, where the majority of the species grow on the trunks and branches of trees...
- Lotus flowers
- The lotus is the foremost symbol of beauty, prosperity and fertility. According to Hinduism, within each human inhabiting the earth is the spirit of the sacred lotus. It represents eternity, purity and divinity and is widely used as a symbol of life, fertility, ever-renewing youth and to describe feminine beauty, especially the eyes...
by saikthota
I am Sai and I love flowers, the madness of which pushed me to undertake this wholesome activity!!
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