Primrose

Primrose

Primrose is a hardy perennial flower, that includes a wide range of varieties. Primrose is native to Asia, Europe, and North America. In North America, they originally were found from the Midwest to the Northwest areas of the U.S

 There are many kinds of Primrose. From a gardener's viewpoint, they can be put into two groups: those that grow in bogs and woodlands, and those that thrive in rocky areas and on cliffs or hillsides

 Some prefer rich, wet soils. While others like their soil dry. Most varieties grow from 8" - 15" tall

 Primrose come in a wide variety of colors, in single blooms or in clusters. Flowers are sweet smelling. Flowers bloom throughout the summer season. Plan on new plants blooming in the second year

 Primrose are excellent for hillsides and as ground covers

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As sweet as your smile, my dahlia

As sweet as your smile, my dahlia

In the language of the flowers, depending on which source you use, the dahlia means gratitude, dignity, pomp, instability and misrepresentation

 Geraldine Adamich Laufer provides these even more specific meanings

 double dahlia—participation 

single dahlia—good taste 

 variegated dahlia—I think of you constantly 

white dahlia—gratitude to parents

yellow dahlia—I am happy you love me

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Cactus Flowers

Cactus Flowers

It was said that Quehualliu was the most handsome Indian of the tribe. He was always picking up flowers for Pasancana, the beautiful daughter of the chief. Together they learned how to walk and to play. They played in the most beautiful places of the mountain

 One day when they were older, they fell in love. But Pasancana's father wanted his daughter to marry another boy in the tribe. This other boy was an excellent hunter. When Pasancana and Quehualliu heard about that, they started to cry, and one day the two decided to escape together

 The next day they were walking in the hills and they made a plan: on the following day when the first star came out they would run away to the mountains. They ran away the following day

 When the chief found out that his daughter wasn’t there, he got mad! He called together a group of men and started looking for the couple

 Pasancana and Quehualliu were tired, so they sat down for a few minutes. They were just going to sleep when a few men came

Thanks to the light of the full moon they saw the men coming after them and asked the Pachamama, the goddess of the land, to hide them. She took pity on the young lovers and opened a hole in the mountain and hid them there. The chief shouted! "They can’t hide forever!" So he and his men stayed there all that night. The next day the lovers had changed into a cactus, Quehualliu

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Beautifull Foxgloves

Beautifull Digitalis

The flowers are produced on a tall spike, are tubular, and vary in colour with species, from purple to pink, white, and yellow

 The best-known species is the "Common Foxglove", Digitalis purpurea

 This genus is native to western and south western Europe, western and central Asia, and northwestern Africa 

 The scientific name means "finger-like" and refers to the ease with which a flower of Digitalis purpurea can be fitted over a human fingertip

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Lily, Trumpet Golden Splendor

Lily, Trumpet Golden Splendor

Lilium is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants growing from bulbs, all with large prominent flowers

 Lilies are a group of flowering plants which are important in culture and literature in much of the world

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Lotus , best part to the outside world

Lotus , best part to the outside world

Lotuses are perhaps the most spectacular plants in aquatic environments

 The Chinese say that, once having seen the growing lotus, you never forget it

 The lotus flowers have color from red, pink, pale yellow to creamy white

 A separate, long, tubular stalk supports each flower and each large round leaf

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Daffodils warm color

Daffodils warm color

Daffodils, meaning "sleep, numbness," in Greek mythology was a hunter from the territory of Thespiae in Boeotia who was renowned for his beauty

 He was the son of a river god named Cephissus and a nymph named Liriope

 He was exceptionally proud of what he did to those who loved him

 Nemesis noticed and attracted Daffodils to a pool, wherein he saw his reflection and fell in love with it, not realizing it was merely an image

Unable to leave the beauty of his reflection, Daffodils died

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Anemones add a touch of elegance

Anemone flowers

Anemone flowers, also known as Windflowers, come in a variety of both Natural and Tinted colors, and are offfered in bulk !

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Nice Hibiscus

Hibiscus

The leaves are alternate, ovate to lanceolate, often with a toothed or lobed margin

 The flowers are large, conspicuous, trumpet-shaped, with five or more petals, color from white to pink, red, orange, purple or yellow, and from 4–18 cm broad

 Flower color in certain species, such as H. mutabilis and H. tiliaceus, changes with age

 The fruit is a dry five-lobed capsule, containing several seeds in each lobe, which are released when the capsule dehisces (splits open) at maturity

 It is of red and white colours. It is an example of complete flowers

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Zinnias a favorite of butterflies

Zinnias a favorite of butterflies

A number of species of zinnia are popular flowering plants

 Their varied habits allow for uses in several parts of a garden, and their tendency to attract butterflies and humming birds is seen as desirable

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