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  Having trouble picking your flowers from the thousands of varieties available Rose   Long considered a symbol of beauty and love, the rose figures in many myths and fairy tales. Romantic writers and poets have used the flower as a metaphor for emotion, beauty, passion, and true love throughout the ages. An all-star in the world of weddings, the rose is far from boring, particularly when it comes to color -- the rose is available in solid colors and bicolor varieties, and there are striped and tipped roses as well.  Tulip Although it's most often associated with the Netherlands, this flower is actually a native of Persia. Representing "consuming love" and "happy years," the tulip can be a meaningful wedding choice. The flowers are grown in a wide range of colors, including white and cream; pastels like pink, yellow, and peach; and vibrant hues like magenta, red, and purple. Available during much of the year, the most common tulips are very affordable, tho...

Shooting Star Flower The common shooting star plant is native to North American valleys and mountains. The plant may be found growing wild in low elevation areas in spring or in summer where consistent moisture is available. Growing shooting star wildflowers in the native home garden is easy and produces masses of the attractive blooms having yellow or lavender collars. Common shooting star blooms in mid-spring from May to June. The plant forms rosettes of long narrow leaves and singular slender stems. The flowers hang in umbels from the stems and are white to bright pink. The petals grow backward and up, away from the reproductive organs of the plant. These dangle down from the center and maybe a pale yellow, pink or even soft purple color. Flower color combinations are blue-purple, yellow-orange or pink-red. The common shooting star is a member of the Primrose family and is a natural part of the prairie garden. These wildflowers are found in wetlands to semi-arid prair...

Edelweiss-Leontopodium   Flower Edelweiss flower is the National Flower of Switzerland. The scientific name of the flower is Leontopodium and commonly known as Edelweiss. Leontopodium is meant the lion’s paw. One of the best flower in the European mountain flower. Edelweiss blooms season is annually June, July, August, and September month. The flowers are one of the reasons for Switzerland’s beauty. The Edelweiss flower is native to Albania, Austria, Bosnia, France, Italy, Poland, Croatia, Bulgaria, Herzegovina, Germany, Serbia, Montenegro, Romania, Spain, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, and Switzerland. The plants prefer rocky limestone places at about 1500-3400m elevation. The flower is belonging to the sunflower and Dairy family. Leontopodium is a genus of herbaceous perennials with clusters of small flowers. It is non-toxic and has been used in traditional medicine or folk medicine as a remedy against abdominal and respiratory diseases. The plant's leaves a...

Sunflower Sunflower  is a genus of plants comprising about 70 species. Whose round flower heads in combination with the ligules look like the Sun. Sunflowers are usually tall annual or perennial plants that in some species can grow to 300cm or more in height? They bear one or more wide, terminal capital, with bright yellow ray florets at the outside and yellow or maroon disc florets inside.  During growth, sunflowers tilt during the day to face the sun but stop once they begin blooming. This tracking of the sun in young sunflower heads is called heliotropism. By the time they are mature, sunflowers generally face east.  The rough and hairy stem is branched in the upper part in wild plants but is usually no branch in domesticated cultivars.  The petiolate leaves are dentate and often sticky. The lower leaves are opposite, ovate, or often heart-shaped.

Black Rose - A Journey into an Unexplored Territory Black rose has multiple meaning inside it. Black rose is actually a darker shade of purple, maroon or red. It can also be a dyed white rose, made to look black by placing it in black ink or by burning a rose under controlled circumstances.  Black roses are symbols featured in fiction with many different meanings and titles such as Black Jade, Black Velvet Rose, Black Magic, Barkarole, Black Beauty, Tuscany Superb, and Baccara. The color black has always been synonymous with death and mourning. It is thus the color of sadness and farewell. So, many people consider black roses to symbolize bereavement, loss, and mortality. They are often used at funerals. A single black rose might be sent by a close friend and/or loved one leaving for war or on a journey from which he did not expect to return.  But, a more positive meaning does exist for the black rose. It is true that black is the color of death. But death do...

Lagerstroemia Indica   Lagerstroemia indica is  State Flower of Maharashtra, India Lagerstroemia indica crape myrtle, crepe flower is a species in the genus Lagerstroemia in the family Lythraceae.  Native to the Indian subcontinent, hence the name Indica, and also native to Southeast Asia, China, Korea, and Japan. Lagerstroemia indica is an often multi-stemmed, deciduous tree with a wide spreading, flat-topped, rounded, or even spike shaped open habit. Planted in full sun or under canopy, the tree is a popular nesting shrub for songbirds and wrens. The bark is a prominent feature being smooth, pinkish-gray and mottled, shedding each year. Leaves also shed each winter, after the spectacular color display, and bare branches re-leaf early in the spring; leaves are small, smooth-edged, circular or oval-shaped, and dark green changing to yellow-orange and red in autumn.  Flowers, on different trees, are white, pink, mauve, p...