May Flowers: The Daffodil Literacy comes with knowing words – having seen them, read about them, talked about them, felt…
MAY FLOWERS
The LUPINE… both an ornamental garden plant and wild one too, the Lupine has an interesting name origin. Lupine derives…
The IRIS… in Greek mythology, Iris is the goddess who acts as a messenger of the Gods, appearing to mortals…
The MARIGOLD… with reference to Mary, the Virgin Mother, the English derivative of Marigold is a combination of Mary +…
The GERANIUM… derived from the Greek word geranós, meaning crane, the Geranium’s fruit capsule is thought to resemble a crane’s…
The VIOLA… delicately heart-shaped and beautifully colored in yellows, whites, blues, lavenders, creams and glorious bi-colors, the Viola is more…
The LOBELIA enirus… with its masses of lovely, delicate fan-shaped flowers, it is almost impossible to believe that the Lobelia…
The DIANTHUS… the name derived from the Greek word for Jupiter Flower, or Flower of the Gods, the Dianthus is…
The STRAWBERRY BLOSSOM… each Strawberry comes from a lovely Strawberry Blossom, and the process from bloom-to-berry is like a tiny…
The BLUEBERRY BLOSSOM… before the Blueberry becomes a berry, it first is a Blueberry Blossom. Delicately bell-shaped, the Blueberry Blossom…
YARROW… lovely, wispy and fern-like, the Yarrow has quite an interesting origin. Achillea is the Yarrow’s botanical name, coming from…
The PETUNIA… the lovely, colorful trumpet-shaped Petunia has a rather interesting origin, being botanically related to the family Solanaceae of tobacco,…
The Rhododendron… with its profusion of large, glorious flowers, the Rhododendron has found its way into cultivated landscapes as bushes,…
The WISTERIA, also spelled Wistaria… named for American anatomist Caspar Wistar (1761 -1818). Wisteria is a luxuriant climber, known for…
The PHLOX… Greek for flame, the Phlox, with its flaming clusters of flowers, give great character and color to gardens.…
The BUTTERCUP… its butter-yellow cup-shaped flower beckons kids of all ages as it brightens both meadows and marshes and even…
The AZALEA… the hardy plant with gloriously colorful and profuse blossoms, its name derived from the Greek azaleos, meaning dry. …
The LILY OF THE VALLEY… the most delicate white bell-shaped flowers swathed within the warmth and safety of bountiful green…
The VIOLET… the sweet-smelling purplish-blue, mauve, pale yellow or white bloom that heralds the approach of summer. The Violet is…
The *FOXGLOVE… a whimsical, colorful, long stalk of bell-shaped flowers whose name derives from the Old English foxes glofa, meaning…
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