Choosing Birthday Flowers

Flowersfor Birthday are one of the best and original presents. People will be always glad to it such presents are always long-awaited and cheer up. In birthday, a bouquet, a composition, a basket can be not too magnificent. And a present for an anniversary is always a beautiful bouquet or, a more preferably flowers basket. Besides there can be not only flowers in the basket, but also fruits, a bottle of good wine, a box of chocolates.

But it is worth to remind that any bouquet presented with love even if it consists of only one carnation or spring tulip, sometimes means much more, than a huge smart bouquet which is difficult to keep in hands.
If a girl is brunette – for her will suit red roses, large gladioluses, dahlias, bright orchids, and bright carnations. Bright red colors make the brunette even more attractive.

If a girl is blonde – everything is absolutely on the contrary. To her will suit gentle-pink, white and light yellow colors. And it doesn’t matter what kind of flowers these are – whether roses, chrysanthemums, callas, lilies or orchids.
To red-haired girls will suit dark roses, violet and dark orchids, violets, hyacinths, gladioluses and many other flowers, especially of dark blue and violet color. And if there is a lot of green in the bouquet, than such bouquet will perfectly suit both a red-haired girl and a brown-haired girl. Though brown-haired girls usually like simple field or wild flowers.

For any bouquet is extremely important a psychological implied sense of visually perceived general color scale: the prevalence of red tonality creates solemn, cheerful mood; white tonality creates – sensation of freshness and cleanliness; orange and yellow tonality – warmth and light; blue tonality – confidence.
Everybody knows that rose is a symbol of love and beauty. And do you know that the color of roses is very important too. And other flowers can tell a lot of interesting things.

The rose origin doesn’t matter it is undoubtedly the most known symbol of beauty and love. Pay attention on the sense of roses color.

So, red and white roses in one bouquet mean unity, pink mean grace and elegance, and yellow mean pleasure or pleasure of communication. It is possible to express your feelings and desires with the help of orange or coral roses. Dark red or claret roses will tell your beloved person that she is very beautiful. Pink roses mean hope and tenderness.

A single rose means modesty, and is good in addition for a present. A person who chooses violet color is deeply and thin feeling person who is guided by eternal values and very seriously concerns to his environment, in this case to you. The fresh orange tone symbolizes the optimistical relation to the validity, a sign of attachment and passionate desires. Yellow color is good for expression of rough feelings too. Scarlet flowers say about ardent deep feeling and passionate desire. White flowers are paints of cleanliness and innocence – a bright proof of tender feelings, respect and passionate attachment of your beloved person.

Enjoy These Flowers

A flower is a part of a plant that forms pollen or seeds or both. Only seed-bearing plants have true flowers. Other plants like the algae, fungi, and mosses have none. And, only those parts of a plant which have to do with the forming of seeds are parts of the flower.

The bright colors, sweet smell, and nectar are necessary to attract insects. The insects are needed to help the flower make seeds that will grow into a new plant.

A person, who thinks of a flower simply as something brightly colored which grows on a plant, may be led far astray. The brilliant scarlet poinsettia blossoms which one sees at Christmas are not true flowers, but simply brilliantly colored leaves which surround the small and dull flowers at the tip of the cluster. Similarly, the large creamy “petals” of the lovely dogwood “blossoms” that bloom in spring are not petals at all but simply brightly colored bracts surrounding the small inconspicuous flowers. In the callas that are used so much at Easter, the great white sheath is not a single flower but a bract or leaf which surrounds and protects a club-shaped mass on which many small flowers are tightly crowded together.

Thus, many of the bright, showy parts of plants which are commonly called “flowers” are not true flowers in the strict sense. On the other hand, there are many true flowers which are seldom noticed at all, or if they are, not considered as flowers. For example, the bearded tufts at the tips of grasses, the heads of cattails, the unripe ears of corn and the small tassels that somewhat resemble certain caterpillars and hang from birches and alders early in spring, are all clusters” of real flowers.

The flower is a branch with very special kinds of leaves. The outermost ones are called sepals. They are usually green; sometimes they are separate one from another, sometimes they are not separate and form a cup. When the flower buds are small, they serve as a protective covering. All together, they are known as the calyx. Next inside the sepals are the petals, known all together as the corolla. The petals may be separate from one another, as in the buttercup, or they may be partially united, as in the tomato, or form a broad flaring trumpet, as in the petunia. Petals are the brightest parts of most flowers. The most important parts, however, are not the brightly colored petals, but the pistils and stamens. Many flowers contain both—the pistil or pistils in the center, surrounded by the stamens. Pistils are often greenish in color. In an enlarged part at the lower end of the pistil (the ovary) are the ovules. In the sweet pea the ovary is long and hairy; in it are ten or more ovules arranged in two rows. Each ovule may grow into a seed. The most important part of an ovule is a tiny egg cell, which can be seen only under a microscope. From this egg cell a new plant may grow.

Some plants have more stamens than others. Each stamen is made of a pollen sac (anther) at the end of a stalk (filament). Before they are ripe they are smooth. Later they open by slits or tiny holes and release the pollen, which they contain as a fine dust, usually yellow. These pollen grains are just as important as the ovules in the production of seed. They produce the sperm cells which unite with the egg cells in the ovules. After a sperm cell has united with an egg cell, the product is called an embryo. From this embryo the new plant will grow. But before an embryo can be formed, the pollen grains must be transferred from the anthers to the pistil, and eventually to the egg. This transfer of pollen is called pollination.

Let's see what these flowers signify?

Flowers have been associated with almost all the occasion of our life. Be it birthday or marriage or even funeral - flowers are the integral part of our life. This lovely gift of nature symbolises beauty, love, warmth, friendship and what not. There are numerous flowers available all around us. Hence every person chooses the flower with some or the other perception. Different flowers have different meanings for different people.

Flower like pink carnation will suit to people who are conservative and much organised. As these people will be very thoughtful hence pink colour especially pink carnation is the flower for them. Flowers like tulips, daffodils and orchids are chosen by the persons who are courteous and independent. Such type of people will identify themselves with violet and pale yellow. Roses, Lilac would become the choice of the people who are intuitive caring and humorous. These flowers are selected by the people who love to dream. They like relatively bright colours and keep themselves away from dark colours. Glorious lilies, Sweet pea, geranium are chosen by the people who are very creative, passionate, assertive and they want to be leader. Such people have the capability of being the thought makers. Whoever chooses these flowers will shoe trend setting traits.

Gladiolus, Freesia, poppies fits into the personality of the people who love in nature. Such people are very calm, gentle and they love luxury. People, who choose these, have a tendency of exhibiting affectionate nature. Gemini flowers and hybrids are picked by the individuals who are charming, restless and keep on evolving. Most of the times these people exhibit vivacious lifestyle and they have an affinity towards orange colours. Peonies, Chrysanthemum flowers are picked by the people who have a very kind heart. People picking them also show a caring attitude towards others. They like to entertain guests and for them flowers become the mode to decorate their homes.

Similarly sunflowers are liked by the people who have majestic personality fall on them. People who are courageous and generous also have a liking towards sunflower. Morning Glory and pansy are loved by the individuals who exhibit very responsible behaviour. Even people who like neat and tidy environment and are very health conscious would love these flowers. Dahlias and daisy will charm the heart of the people who are very sensible and diplomatic. It's a known fact that a person becomes more sensible when he is experienced hence such flowers will be loved by the experienced people.

After coming across the different flowers and the personality to which they connect we can say that personality of a person can be judged to certain extent (these all are not based on scientific facts) by the flower he chooses.

Shapes Of The Waterlily Will Amaze You

Waterlily plants are a great addition to any water feature. You have seen them in lakes and ponds when you travel, but there is no reason they cannot be added to your home water feature and enjoyed by you and your family.The many shapes of the lily will amaze you. You can find water lily plants that produce round, cup shape, fluffy, pointed or star shaped. The leaves are jagged or smooth, pointed or round. The variety will be determined by the size of your water feature and your own particular style of landscaping.

The choice for the color and type of water lily plant is yours. You can accent the colors of your landscaping or give the look of tropical wild flowers.Miniature water liliescan be grown in smaller garden ponds or in a pot water garden. They need a minimum depth of 10 - 30 cm. You can choose either Nymphaea odorata minor or Nymphaea pygmaea alba. They both flower white.Hardy water liliescome in red, white, pink, yellow and sunset. They will give you color from April through October.

Proper water lily care starts with location. Water lilies will require a minimum of six hours of sunshine each day. Most water lilies bloom in the day time when the sun is high and close in the evening as the sun sets and the air cools. Investigating the many different types of water lily plants will introduce you to some that will require a bit less sunlight, but be careful with your choices.

Water lily plants will adapt to the water they are in. It is necessary to adhere to water lily care to make the transfer to a deeper water successful. If the plant has already started to open, it will not tolerate deeper water because the stems have lost all elasticity. New leaves, however will adapt.

How To Protect Your Rose In Winter

Winter Protection-Then comes the question of protection, which I am convinced is made too much of, so far, at least, as concerns gardens in the southern counties. I live in Middlesex, and I never protect any of my roses. Out of the many I have from time to time planted I can only remember losing one. Of course, if I had given the plants adequate protection I should not have lost even that one, I imagine some " protection " enthusiast exclaiming. But I submit that my experience makes out a very good case for " nonprotection "-with no political significance, I protest ! Those who have the fortune to live in the cold northern counties (the very mention of which fills me with uneasiness, so long have I lived in the south !) should protect there Tea roses, but all the Hybrid Perpetuals and most of the Hybrid Teas are quite hardy. At least, there is no reason why anyone should take any risk, for it is the simplest thing in the world to protect one's roses. There is no need for any of the elaborate methods often advocated; a little heap Of soil 3 or 4 inches high, around and among the lower branches, is all that is required. Readers may well cry " shame " that I do not even take so simple a precaution to protect my own roses rather than run the risk of losing even one; and while that censure is perhaps well deserved, I protest that I am so busy writing about roses in the winter that I am apt sometimes to leave them to look after themselves. And I make bold to say that it would be all the better for many other roses if they were similarly treated.

The surest way to weaken a rose is to coddle it. Many of those who protect their plants with bracken, straw and other material, leave these about the plants until late in spring, with the result that the roses start into growth earlier than they would otherwise do, and such growth as they make beneath the seductive covering that gives them a dangerous and unnatural warmth is soft and sappy and falls an easy prey to the least frost. And when is the rose . grower out of the wood so far as late spring frosts is concerned ? justly we may term this winter protection a " wolf in sheep's clothing," especially so far as the inexperienced gardener is concerned. And why go to this trouble when mother earth is all they need, and when nothing is better or even so good for them ? Even I, who would seem to hold a brief for garden soil as if it were almost to the ground in the month of March following planting. I believe, too, that most amateurs in their heart ' of hearts know this as well as the professional, but they have not the courage to put the precept into practice. At any rate, they have been told times enough. Anyone with a knowledge of the likes and dislikes of roses has doubtless had the pleasure of advising a friend as to the method of pruning his roses the first spring after planting. You find that he has cut bush roses back in the orthodox way; but the climbers, those with nice long growths that seem. to say, " Ah ! just leave me alone, and I promise that you shall not be disappointed " -with those it is different. He has listened to the siren's voice, he has started on that seductive short cut to Elysium. Naturally you expostulate with him, you argue, and finally threaten his roses will all the evils to which roses are heir. But no, he has heard the entrancing call, he is enraptured, by the charm of the dreams he has dreamed, and all entreaty is vain. Since he will do so, he must tread the path, which, alas! so many have trodden-I am not ashamed to confess that I am found among the number-that leads without delay to disillusion. You are told in a more or less shamefaced sort of way that, " I thought I ought to have cut them harder back, don't you know; but then I was not quite sure." And, knowing better, you interpret this as really meaning that the gardener knew that the roses ought to be cut to the ground, but that he could not bring himself to do it. How much wiser would he have been to go away for the day and commission the jobbing gardener to come in and cut off not only the heads but also the legs also of all the newly planted roses. The jobber would have had no scruples about doing it, for the more cutting the untrained worker can do the better he is pleased, as a rule.

But let me to the point, and say that every growth of every rose you plant between November and March should be cut to within three or four buds of its base about the last week in March or the first week in April. As a -preliminary, the growths may be half cut away as soon as they are planted. I have one crumb of comfort for the tender-hearted rose grower. If it -does really go seriously against the grain to treat the plants in this way, then all those that belong to the wichuraiana class may be more leniently dealt with, although, personally, I treat them all alike,. I am afraid I shall need at least a paragraph to explain all that is denoted by that fearsome word " wichuraiana -a word that, though used glibly enough by gardeners and garden writers, is more often than not misspelt. I have made sure of that extra " a " before venturing on this mild criticism ! The original rose called wichuraiana is a charming Japanese creeping kind with very long, slender growths and pretty little white blossoms, and by cross-breeding with some other roses distinguished by large flowers of rich coloring, Dorothy Perkins and many others have been evolved. They are commonly referred to as wichuraiana roses. Well, these make such remarkably vigorous growth with little or no attention on the grower's part that it is not necessary to cut them hard back to induce them to grow strongly. And there is the whole case in a nutshell ! One may leave the best growth almost its full length, and shorten all others by about one half. So much, then (and it is much more than I had intended), about pruning newly planted roses.

Telling You to Grow Lily-of-the-Valley-The most beautiful flower

If you are looking for an easy, perennial, flowering bulb to grow that will give you years of satisfaction, try growing lily-of-the-valley. The sweet, intoxicating, bell-shaped blooms seem to herald the arrival of spring. Lily-of-the-valley is also known as Convallaria and is a must addition for gardeners looking for flowering plants to add to the shady regions of their landscape. Not only is lily-of-the-valley easy to grow, it is also quite hardy once established.

 Step 1
Soak your lily-of-the-valley bulbs, or pips, in a plastic bowl of lukewarm water. Allow the pips to stay in the water for several hours. They will begin to swell from absorbing water, and this will help them start growing quicker once planted.
Step 2
Select an area in your garden that is either situated in full shade or partial shade. It is best to not plant the lily-of-the-valley pips in a location that receives full sun as they will not do well.
Step 3
Amend the soil with organic matter such as peat, manure, compost or pine bark to make it richer. You also need soil that drains well as the pips will not do well planted in an area that floods. The pips will rot and die before they even start growing.

 Step 4
Snip off one inch from the end of the roots on the pips before planting. This will help moisture get into the roots and make them start growing quicker.
Step 5
Plant your lily-of-the-valley pips in a hole just deep enough to where the top of the pip is sticking out of the ground. Space each pip approximately 1 ½-inch apart. Pack the soil down firmly around each pip.
Step 6
Water the newly planted pips well. Keep the soil where the pips are growing moist, but not soggy.
Step 7
Prune off the flower stalks as they begin to bloom. Once the plant has stopped blooming, do not cut off the foliage for winter. Allow the foliage to remain for the plant to continue getting nutrients.
Step 8
Fertilize the lily-of-the-valley plants twice per year with a high quality general purpose 10-10-10 fertilizer. Fertilize once in late spring and then again in summer.
Step 9
Lay mulch around the base of the plants during the winter to protect the root system.

Beautiful Philippine islands flowers

　　Philippine islands are a beautiful tropical paradise flooded with colorful tropical flowers and tropical orchids. A true exotic flower paradise all year long. Tropical orchids flowers in hundreds of colors and shapes, hibiscus in all variations, bougainvillea and many other tropical flowers. Beautiful flowers are healing light for the heart and soul of humans. A garden filled with a beautiful blossoming flower paradise means the house-owner has lots of love for others. No flowers in the garden means no love for others.

Photo tutorials and educational spiritual tutorials about nature and happy life in nature embedded in picture documentations shall make the joy of color photos also an educational experience. Learn about tropical nature, fruits, trees, farming, life on the beautiful Philippine islands.
Most of these beautiful tropical flower photos are in wallpaper size of 1600x1200px and or 1024x768 pixels available for free. You also find a beautiful collection of flower wallpaper in 1920x1080px HDTV widescreen 1080p format. You may find more beautiful flowers in the album Lotus flowers. Some of the most beautiful flowers and roses are also available as free God cards - prayer cards.
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Tropical flowers wallpaper in 16:9 HDTV 1080p/720p high resolution format. Flower photos from Philippines islands and the Kingdom of Cambodia. If you love these tropical flower photo background images, then you may as well love to travel the Philippine islands or enjoy to travel the Kingdom of Cambodia.- enjoy the beautiful flowers as free Love eCards Flowers.
Keep as many different beautiful flowers in a strong and most natural possible environment around you - it may safe doctor and medical bills and always uplifts your mood. Choose the beautiful flowers and flower colors you love most - that's the medicine for your heart you needs most. Enjoy the many beautiful flower pictures. More may most likely come on regular basis.
Most of these beautiful tropical flower photos are in wallpaper size of 1600x1200px and or 1024x768 pixels available for free. You also find a beautiful collection of flower wallpaper in 1920x1080px HDTV widescreen 1080p format. You may find more beautiful flowers in the album Lotus flowers. Some of the most beautiful flowers and roses are also available as free God cards.
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Lilies Blossoms With Strong Sweet Scent

Lilies are the famous and popular flowers in the world that can produce sweet scent and can have many colors of flowers. This flowers is the favorite flower whether in the garden or in the garden and there are many numbers of different species that growing in around the world. The lilies can grow well in the garden if they get the proper maintenance. The lilies are so hardy and they can thrive in any soil that get the well drain. This flower can have the large blossoms with the strong sweet scent. In planting the lilies, people should have the organic and the acidic soil that is drained well. These lilies also need a lot of mulch in some of the northern regions.
Wild lilies include lilies, trilliums, onions, tulips, hyacinths, and more. They are bulbed perennials.You may find lilies to be the easiest to grow and care for. Once you plant the bulbs you will have years of care free beauty.You may find it necessary to seperate the bulbs every couple of years. This helps to keep them blooming large and full. Perhaps this is why so many wild lilies are smaller than the ones you grow at home.

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The colorful swan in southern Colombia Louisiana garden series endless

　　Louisiana gardeners seldom grow columbines (Aquilegia species and hybrids) in their cool-season flower gardens. This probably is due mostly to unfamiliarity with columbines -- there is no tradition of using columbines here in the Deep South -- and lack of availability in local nurseries.
Enlarge The Times-Picayune Swan Blue and White Swan series columbine gallery (5 photos)

That's about to change. A relatively new hybrid columbine, called the Swan series, has performed so well in LSU AgCenter trials it has been named a Louisiana Super Plants selection for fall 2011.
Columbines are among the most graceful of garden flowers. The foliage is lacy and bluish-green, and reminds me of large maidenhair fern fronds. The slightly nodding flowers are complexly formed and often include two contrasting colors.
A notable feature of the flowers is the long spurs that extend behind the petals. These claw-like spurs reminded people of the claws of eagles, and that's how this plant got the Latin name Aquilegia, which is derived from the Latin for eagle (aquila). Interestingly, the common name -- columbine -- is derived from the Latin name for another bird, the pigeon or dove (columba).
Swan series columbine
The word "series" has a different meaning from the more commonly used terms "variety" or "cultivar."
All of the plants that belong to a particular variety look exactly the same or very similar: they all have the same, shape, size and color of leaves and flowers and grow to be the same size.
A series, on the other hand, is the result of a focused breeding program that produces closely related but different varieties of a particular plant. These varieties have been bred to be very similar to each other except for a particular characteristic, such as flower color.
So when creating a series, plant breeders develop several individual varieties of a particular plant that share many common traits, such as genetic background, size of plant, growth habit, cultural needs, size and shape of flower and time of bloom. But the varieties differ from one another in one or two significant characteristics -- typically flower color. Within the series, each group is a separate variety and gets its own variety name.
This is the case with the Swan series columbines. The varieties in the Swan series are all very similar in everything except flower color.
Within the Swan series, the varieties are named based on the flower color, and include Swan Blue and White, Swan White, Swan Yellow, Swan Pink and Yellow, Swan Burgundy and White, Swan Violet and White, Swan Rose and White and Swan Red and White.
The outstanding range of beautiful colors is one reason the Swan series was chosen as a Louisiana Super Plants selection. The flowers are also larger than other columbines, and the plants are more vigorous in growth.
Growing swan columbines
In milder climates with cooler summers, columbines may be short-lived perennials that tend to bloom in summer.
Here in Louisiana, however, we grow virtually all columbines (other than Hinckley's columbine) as cool-season annuals that begin blooming in the spring and are removed when they finish blooming in early summer.
Transplants of Swan columbines available at your local nurseries should be purchased and planted now and through the fall. Fall planting allows for the most spectacular floral display in the spring.
Planting can be done all winter and as late as the end of February and still produce excellent results. Plants in 4-inch pots are a great size to plant in fall because they are economical, and the plants have all winter to grow and develop.
Larger sizes often will be available and are especially good when more immediate impact is desired or when planting later in the season.
Typically, the plants you plant in the fall or winter will not be in bloom. Columbines grow over the winter in the garden and bloom in the spring.
Don't let this deter you from planting them. During winter, they produce mounds of attractive foliage that looks great with other cool-season bedding plants, such as pansies and dianthus.
In the spring, generally from March through April or early May, the plants send up stems with clusters of large, elegant, colorful flowers. By May, the plants will be finished flowering and can be removed from the garden (compost them) and replaced with summer bedding plants.
Swan columbines grow well in full sun to part shade. They are one of the few cool-season bedding plants that blooms well in part shade (as does another Louisiana Super Plant, Camelot series foxglove).
Enrich the bed where they are planted by incorporating generous amounts of compost or other organic materials and a light sprinkling of general purpose fertilizer into the soil.
Space Swan columbine transplants about 12 inches apart from the center of one plant to the center of the plant next to it.
Hinckley's columbine
Columbines aren't entirely unheard-of in the New Orleans area. The New Orleans Botanical Garden in City Park has introduced gardeners to a columbine that actually survives as a short-lived perennial here.
The yellow-flowering Hinckley's columbine (Aquilegia chrysantha var. hinckleyana) is native to just one county in western Texas. It has been grown at the Botanical Garden and sold at their plant sales for the past 15 or 20 years, and you see this plant occasionally in area gardens.
Hinckley's columbine blooms with bright yellow flowers in spring and early summer and generally survives for two or three years, sometimes more. New plants are grown from seeds as needed to replace old plants as they die.
Hinckley's columbine thrives in well-drained, partially shaded locations and is drought-tolerant despite its delicate appearance.
Try Super Plants
The purpose of the Louisiana Super Plants program is to identify superior plants for Louisiana landscapes, make sure wholesale growers are growing and retail nurseries are carrying the selections and get the word out to the gardening public about these outstanding plants.
In addition to Swan series columbine, there are two other selections for fall 2011: Redbor kale and Belinda's Dream rose. These plants were featured in earlier columns.
To see photos and read about all of the beautiful and reliable Louisiana Super Plants selections, check out the Louisiana Super Plants website at www.lsuagcenter.com/superplants.
You will also find a list of nurseries in your area that are carrying Louisiana Super Plants.

Beautiful, isn't it

　　This camelia was photographed before winter struck this past weekend. Beautiful, isn't it? Its appearance in the garden brings to mind the book I read recently called A Victorian Flower Dictionary by Mandy Kirkby (Ballantine Books, $22), which I'll be writing more about in the paper.
It's about the language of flowers, an international, timeless language that applies to every season and country, such as - as Kirkby informs - May Day in France, which focuses on the lily of the valley. A lot of folks in the U.S. regard this delicate, fragrant ground cover as a nuisance - try getting rid of it! But in France, it's often called porte-bonheur, literally "bringer of happiness." Bouquets are sold everywhere to welcome spring.
Cherry blossoms in Japan represent the essence of life itself. As Kirkby describes it, "shockingly lbeautiful and heartbreakingly fleeting."
The camelia, she notes, is "the empress of winter," bringing lightness and gaiety to a dark time of year. It's named for Georg Kamel, a Jesuit missionary and botanist, who brought this beloved flower to Europe from east Asia in the early 1700s. It was grown in hothouses and by the mid-19th century, was considered an exotic must-have.
"It was the belle of winter flowers, gracing dinner parties, balls and concert rooms," Kirby writes, and soon came to represent "a simple expression of feminine beauty and love."
All that conversation, and beauty, in my back yard.