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25/09/2022

9. Veggie Bloom
Broccoli is actually a flower!

10. Scotland’s Flower
Many moons ago when the Vikings invaded Scotland, they were slowed down by patches of wild thistle, which allowed the Scots to make their escape. Because of this, the wild thistle was named Scotland’s national flower

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11. Fresh Bouquet
White flowers give off stronger scents than colourful flowers. Who knew?

12. Sunshine Bloom
The beautiful sunflower moves throughout the day in response to the movement of the sun from east to west. Clever things!

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13. Sun, Moon and Stars
The dandelion is the only flower that represents the 3 celestial bodies of the sun, moon and stars – the yellow flower resembles the sun, the puffball the moon and the dispersing seeds, the stars! How lovely!

14. Sensitive Plants
The pretty pink pom pom heads of the Mimosa Pudica looks sweet and fuzzy, but it is actually a very sensitive plant, which will fold up its leaves when it is touched

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15. Rose Oil
It takes two thousand roses to produce one gram of rose oil!

16. As Valuable As Gold
In 17th Century Holland, tulip bulbs were more valuable than gold! The flower symbolized immortality, life and love.

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So there are our 16 lovely facts about flowers! Who knew they had so many fascinating facts about them?! We hope some of these come up the next time you play Trivial Pursuit or are at the pub quiz – you’ll be the flower fact master.

Why not create your own beautiful t-shirt with your very own images on it. Cover yourself in your beautiful flower photography with our cut and sew t-shirts. They make the perfect gift or a new statement wardrobe piece. Stand out and glow with your personalised t-shirt. Another bonus facts about flowers are that they make beautiful t-shirt designs.

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1. Oldest Flower
Scientist’s discovered the world’s oldest flower in 2002 in China. The ancient flower was in bloom, wait for it, around 125 million years ago! Its name is Archaefructus Sinensis and looked like a modern-day water lily

2. Healing Flower Power
The Yarrow flower is known for its healing properties and was used in World War 1 to help heal soldier’s wounds

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3. Vitamin Flower
Dandelions may be weeds, but the flowers and leaves are actually a very good source of vitamins A and C, iron, calcium and potassium! So get munching! Yum!

4. Cooking Up A Storm
If you don’t happen to have an onion to hand when you’re next cooking, you can use a tulip bulb in many recipes instead! Who knew?

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5. Pain Killer
The humble and sweet daisy has loads of medicinal properties, including relieving indigestion, easing coughs, slowing bleeding and easing back pain! Wowza!

6. Flower Relations
Roses are not only romantic but they have lots of famous (and tasty) relations, including apples, raspberries, cherries, plums, pears, peaches, nectarines and almonds.

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7. Large And In Charge
The world’s largest flower is also one of the smelliest things in the world! The Titan Arum stands at almost 10 feet high and due to its aroma of rotten flesh, it is also known as the co**se flower…perhaps not one to bring home to your wife then!

8. Scent Bomb
They look very pretty but the gas plant gets its name due to it secreting a clear gas on warm nights. It is believed that this gas can be ignited with a match! Don’t try that at home!!

25/09/2022

1. Tulips are worth their weight in gold
Back in 17th century Holland, tulips were considered to be worth more than gold and silver. Back then, one bulb cost upwards of $2,000. Now, they are quite a bit cheaper and can even be used to replace onions in recipes!

2. There are more flowers than we can count
As of right now, botanists have discovered more than 270,000 different species of flowers. Of that number, a full 35,000 are simply of roses and are considered some of the most valuable flowers in the entire world. Not to mention, this number grows every single day, and there are still many different species yet to be discovered.

3. China boasts the oldest flower in the world
Known as the Mother of All Flowers, the Archaefructus sinensis is believed to be the world’s oldest flower. Discovered by archaeologists in a fossil back in 2002, it was believed to bloom more than 125 million years ago in China.

4. The smelliest flower in the world
We all love our flowers because they emit a pleasant scent, right? Well, the Sumatran Titan Arum will change everything you think about flowers. Called the co**se flower, when in bloom this bud smells similar to a dead body. While they may look interesting, it’s safe to say these nine-foot tall plants won’t be in any flower delivery anytime soon!

5. It isn’t all about the roses
While roses are the most popular flower to give for Valentines Day, in Russia this trend is quite new. Back a couple hundred years ago, tulips were given in Russia as a way to declare romantic love.

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25/09/2022

Flowers for Kids-Fun Activities to Do with Flowers

Snap Dragon flowers look like little mouths. If you squeeze the sides of the flower, the mouth will open and it can "eat" things. When you release the sides of the flower, it will close again.

Lunaria, or money plant, has purple flowers that turn into silver papery quarter shaped seedpods that can be used like play money or jewelry.

False dragonhead or obedient plant has a spike full of flowers that can be bent into position.

Hollyhocks are fun flowers for kids. They have large beautiful flowers that can be made into dolls. Cut off a flower, bud and all for the body and skirt and then choose a bud for the head. Attach it with a toothpick. Draw a face with markers.

Press and dry flowers and make crafts. Pick flowers that can be flattened, like violets and put them between the pages of very heavy books. The pressed flowers can be made into placemats, jewelry, and other crafts.

One of the fun facts about flowers is that some flowers can be eaten! Flowers of the squash flowers, such as pumpkin blossoms, can be fried in a batter and eaten. Violas, nasturtiums, pansies, and violets can be candied or frozen into ice cubes. Dandelion flowers can be made into jellies, added to salads, or made into tea. Before you eat any flower, make sure an adult has said it is safe. Some plants are poisonous or have been sprayed with poisonous pesticides.

Make a daisy chain of flowers by picking flowers with long stems, making a slit in the stem, and pulling the stem of the second stem through until the flower head can't be pulled through. Continue this to make a chain which can be made into jewelry or garlands.

25/09/2022

Fun Facts about Flowers: Weird Flowers

Not all flowers smell good. One of the world's rarest, largest, smelliest, and strangest looking flower is the titan arum, or the co**se flower. It is called the co**se flower because it smells like a rotting dead body. The bloom is over 8 foot tall and 12 feet in circumference. They smell like rotting flesh in order to attract flies, their preferred pollinator. People have been known to pass out from the smell!

The largest Flower in the world is the flower of the Puya raimondii, which has a flower stalk 35,000 feet tall and bears over 8,000 white flowers.

Mimosa punica, or sensitive plant, will actually fold up its leaves when it is touched. It has whitish pink fuzzy flowers that look like little pom poms.

The Bird of Paradise is a beautiful, oddly shaped plant that resembles a colorful tropical bird.

Corkscrew vine flower, Vigna Caracalla, has a flower shaped like nautilus shells.

25/09/2022

Interesting Facts about Flowers

Flowers did not always exist; they first appeared 140 million years ago. Before that, ferns and cone bearing trees dominated the earth.

Several centuries ago in Holland, tulips were more valuable than gold.

Broccoli is actually a flower.

Some plants such as orchids do not need soil to grow-they get all of their nutrients from the air.

Some plants produce toxic substances that kill other plants around them-the sunflower is an example.

Carnivorous plants are flowering plants that eat bugs and small animals! For example, the Venus fly trap has leaves covered by little hairs. When a bug lands on the hairs, the trap snaps shut and digestive juices digest the bug. Other carnivorous plants such as pitcher plants have leaves that form pitchers that are full of digestive fluids. Insects, frogs, and other small creatures are attracted to the nectar and bright colors on the pitchers and flowers. Some unfortunate critters fall in, drown, and are digested.

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Parts of a Flower

The outside of a flower that can be seen easily consists of petals, the colored part of the flower, and the sepals, the small green structures that look like little petals at the base of the flower.

Inside a flower is the pistil, or the female parts of the flower. The pistil looks like a vase with a long neck. The top of this "vase" is called the stigma. The long neck is called the style. The bottom, fatter part of the vase is the o***y and contains the ovules, or eggs.

Also inside the flower are the male parts of the flower, called the stamens. The stamen consists of the anther and the filament. The filament looks like a stiff, standing piece of string. On top of the filament is a rounded ball of pollen called the anther. The pollen is usually a bright yellow or orange color.

Pollinators like bees, animals, and birds come and gather pollen from the flowers. The pollen sticks to their bodies. When they go to visit another flower to gather more pollen, the pollen from the previous flower drops into the pistil of the new flower, fertilizes the eggs inside the o***y, and seeds

25/09/2022

How Flowers Eat and Grow--Photosynthesis

Some facts about flowers are that flowers get their food from sunlight, water, and minerals in the soil; flowers are the reproductive parts of a plant, and plants make their own food by photosynthesis.

Plants can photosynthesize due to cells called chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll; this is what makes plants green. Sun strikes the chloroplasts and combines with carbon dioxide that plants get from their leaves, and water that plants get through their roots, to produce sugar, or glucose. This is the plant's food, and this gives the plant energy to grow and produce flowers.

Plants take in carbon dioxide, or CO 2 ,through little holes in their leaves, which are called stomata. They then produce and release oxygen through the stomata. Plants and animals were meant to live together! Animals need the oxygen that plants put out, and plants need the carbon dioxide that animals put out.

Sometimes people add fertilizer, or plant food, to give plants extra minerals and nutrients so that they can grow better. Fertilizer does not take the place of sunlight and water.

Without sunlight and water, plants will die.

24/09/2022

Plants are really important for the planet and for all living things. Plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen from their leaves, which humans and other animals need to breathe. Living thing…

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A leaf is an appendage on the stem of a vascular plant. Leaves are the primary site of photosynthesis in plants. Plant cells inside of a leaf contain chloroplast and conduct the photosynthesis process. The photosynthesis process inside of a leaf converts water and carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen.

12/09/2022

Trees and the Environment
One tree produces nearly 260 pounds of oxygen each year. One acre of trees removes up to 2.6 tons of carbon dioxide each year. Shade trees can make buildings up to 20 degrees cooler in the summer. Trees lower air temperature by evaporating water in their leaves.

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10/09/2022

There Are Thousands of Varieties of Tulips
There are more than 3,000 varieties of tulips worldwide (this includes naturally occurring and genetically cultivated varieties). Of those 3,000 varieties, tulips can be divided into approximately 150 species.

10/09/2022

Roses Are A Symbol Of Many Things, Not Just Love
We can all agree on their universal message, but, in some historical periods, they were assigned additional meanings. Some of them you may be familiar with already, but others may catch you off guard.

THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL FLOWER
On November 20, 1986, the rose was declared the United States National Flower by President Ronald Reagan, during a special ceremony hosted at the White House Rose Garden. Among other things, he stated: “More often than any other flower, we hold the rose dear as the symbol of life and love and devotion, of beauty and eternity...”

MANY STATES HOLD ROSES AS STATE FLOWERS
Not only do the United States as a whole have roses as their symbol, but also Georgia, New York, Iowa, North Dakota and Washington, D.C hold different varieties as their state flowers.

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Pushkin, Tyutchev, Fet, Blok and others wrote about flowers. A. Dumas's novel "The Black Tulip" is a classic of world literature. Ego was filmed several times, and at the end of the 20th century, a cartoon was filmed.
The oldest rose in the world grows in Germany. Its location is Hildesheim Cathedral. For more than 1,000 years, it has been pleasing the eyes of visitors, and its bush almost rises above the roof of the building.
On the slopes of the mountains of South America, you can find the Pouya Raymonda flower, which opens its petals only once every 150 years, and then dies.
Rafflesia Arnolda is recognized as the largest flower on the planet, its weight reaches 11 kg, and its diameter is 91 cm.

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