Flower Trivia

[LouisFerdinand]

What is the longest blooming flower?

 

[Oliver Buckle]

What is the longest blooming flower?

My Angel's Trumpet has blooming long flowers.

 

[LouisFerdinand]

What is the first flower that blooms in the spring?

 

[LouisFerdinand]

What flower is associated with the royal family of England?

 

[LouisFerdinand]

Only 10 percent of the 369,000 flowering plants are blue. This makes blue the rarest flower color.

 

[LouisFerdinand]

The first ever-blooming pink daylily is Rosy Returns.

 

[LouisFerdinand]

During the Middle Ages, Lady's Mantle was thought to have magic healing properties.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

During the Middle Ages, Lady's Mantle was thought to have magic healing properties.

We Brits are stuck in the Middle ages

Organic Lady's Mantle Tincture 100ml

Organic Lady's Mantle Tincture Alchemilla vulgaris Organic Herbal Remedies 100ml Botanical Food Supplement Soil Association organic

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[LouisFerdinand]

Fringed Pink Ambrosia

Pink - Fringed 'Ambrosia'

The most potent pink I've grown, with delicate lilac to white feathery flowers that fill the air with their sweetness. Upon close inspection, the shy looking flowers reveal a wash of violet-red calyxes. A rare gem for the fragrance garden, they were once called Superb Pink and offered by...

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[LouisFerdinand]

Geum Red Dragon has ruffled scarlet red petals.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/462463455498583643/

 

[LouisFerdinand]

Holy Roman Emperor Francis I's interests in the natural sciences induced him to finance expeditions to bring back rare species of plants to his botanical garden.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

The Austrian monk, Gregor Mendel, bred species of pea and bean that came true and were distinguishable, for example, wrinkled and smooth, or dwarf and giant. By crossing them and counting the proportions of each in the following (F1 and F2) generations he worked out that complete units of information, chromosomes he called 'factors', were passed on to the offspring. This was years before Darwin proposed evolution, but was still wondering why it was that when a bird with a red breast and one with a white breast bred the offspring did not have a pink breast.
His aim was to provide better seed for the peasants. Eventually he lost his sight from the close work removing stamens and covering flowers in tiny bags to be sure which plant pollinated which, by that time he had moved on to hawkweeds which display some curious characteristics, but have very small flowers.

 

[Meadowlark]

My Angel's Trumpet has blooming long flowers.

Same here.

 

[LouisFerdinand]

Last year I had a new flower customer who was interested in Coleus.
The following is an example of a Coleus I researched.
He and his wife liked the contrasting colors.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/155303888120898912/

 

[LouisFerdinand]

Cymbidium Solid Orange

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/155303888220231873/