Flowers

 Flowers

Flower is defined as the part of a plant that is often brightly colored and provides the pollen that is moved from plant to plant for pollination.

Facts About Flowers

• Rose blooms are edible.
• There are over 250,000 species  of flowering plants known on the Earth today.
• Saffron, the expensive yellow-tinted spice considered a delicacy by fine chefs, is derived from a type of crocus flower.
• Flowers work on time schedules depending on when they open and close, and when the insects that pollinate them tend to fly.
• Lilies are one of the oldest plant types known in the world, and have appeared in art for many centuries.

Symbolism of Flower Colors

• Red rose - love, beauty, perfection

• Pink rose - admiration, grace, elegance, joyfulness
• Yellow rose - warm feelings, happiness, friendship
• White rose - purity, innocence, new beginnings, remembrance
• Orange rose - desire, enthusiasm, passion, excitement
• Lavender rose - enchantment, love at first sight

Flowers other than roses also have symbolic meanings:

• Red flowers - energy, desire, strength, beauty, courage, and love
• Pink flowers - happiness, grace, youth, joy, and innocence
• Purple flowers - royalty, ceremony, dignity, success, pride, and admiration
• Yellow flowers - joy, lightheartedness, friendship, new beginning, and happiness
• Blue flowers - peace, serenity, openness, and can calm worries and anxiety
• White flowers - innocence, humility, reverence, simple beauty, modesty, and elegance
• Orange flowers - enthusiasm, energy, warmth, confidence, satisfaction, and a passion for life
• Green flowers - health, youth, good fortune, resilience, optimism, and renewal
• Lavender flowers - grace, refinement, feminine beauty, and elegance

Flower Quotations

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
Max Muller 

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln 

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller 

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln 

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Stevie Wonder