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How to Keep Flowers Fresh with Household Items Flowers, though beautiful in nature, provide a pleasing effect and has its own charm and is a delight when someone sends it to you when you least expect it or for that matter from someone least expected. Flowers, being perishable in nature, do wither away in a few days even though the utmost care is taken...

The Benefits of Sending Flowers Online Finding the perfect birthday present can be difficult, especially if the person you’re shopping for seems to have everything or you don’t know what he or she does and doesn’t have. Fortunately, flowers are a gift that never go out of style, and you can never have too many flowers. Something about giving someone flowers always seems to...

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Flowers that help in fighting cancer Periwinkle This pretty plant from Madagascar gives us two very important cancer-fighting medicines: vinblastine and vincristine. Vinblastine has helped increase the chance of surviving childhood leukaemia from 10% to 95%, while vincristine is used to treat Hodgkins’ Disease. Traditional Madagascan healers used the rosy periwinkle for treating diabetes. This led to its study by western scientists who then...

Popular Flowers Festival of India Festivals of flowers are very popular among the people of India. There are a number of festivals held in various parts of the country. Tulip festival is one of the most popular flower festivals in India. The festival is a great way to capture the flowering tulips of Kashmir as Srinagar has Asia’s largest tulip garden. The Tulip Festival...

Dandelions Flowers Health Benefits The health benefits of dandelion include relief from liver disorders, diabetes, urinary disorders, acne, jaundice, cancer and anemia. It also helps in maintaining bone health, skin care and is a benefit to weight loss programs. These and other health benefits are currently being studied for complete validation by a number of international institutions. Despite the health benefits of dandelions, they...

Popular Spring Flower Tulips Facts Tulip(Tulipa), is a genus of single seed-lobe plants from the Lilium family (Liliaceae). Originally, the flower comes from Hungary. By conquests of Süleyman I this area came under Ottoman influence. This was the reason that the flower ended up in Turkey. Later it was spotted in Turkey itself, where it became a popular spring flower, for the Turks a...

A flower has bloomed in space for the first time ever, aboard the International Space Station. On Saturday, American astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted a photograph of a zinnia flower that had blossomed in the space laboratory. Kelly has been working there since March 2015 and has become the resident gardener on board. This accomplishment brings space explorers a step closer to growing fresh produce...

Turkish Halfeti Roses are incredibly rare. They are shaped just like regular roses, but their color sets them apart. These roses so black, you’d think someone spray-painted them. But that’s actually their natural color. These stunning black roses would make excellent props in a movie about witches and black magic, or in a heavy-metal video. There’s something extremely attractive about them, in an intense...

One of the world’s largest and rarest flowering structures, the corpse flower is a pungent plant that blooms rarely and only for a short time. While it is in bloom, the flower emits a strong odor similar to rotting meat or, aptly, a decaying corpse. The corpse flower is endemic to western Sumatra where it grows in rainforests on limestone hills. For those who...

A grand show of flowers ‘Mahabaleshwar Flower Festival’ has been organized by Vaikunth Piramal at Piramal realty, Balkum where people can see 1 million flowers of different species & 18 differently themed gardens. Inspired by the Chelsea Flower Show of UK, the Vaikunth Flower Show was thrown open to the public on December 22 and will be there till January 3, 2016 This was...

The cockscomb flower is an annual addition to the flower bed, commonly named for the red variety similarly colored to the cock’s comb on a rooster’s head. Cockscomb, Celosia cristata, traditionally grown in the red variety, also blooms in yellow, pink, orange and white. The cockscomb plant is versatile in height, sometimes remaining as short as a few inches while others grow to a...

Maharashtra’s answer to the Valley of Flowers, Kaas Plateau comes alive after the rains when the entire region is carpeted with flowers. Located 35 km from Mahabaleshwar, the plateau spread over 1000 hectare is a visual treat till October when the bloom lasts. The name ‘Kaas’ originates from the Kaasa tree. The leaves of the tree turn red from green as it matures. During...

Antirrhinums are a genus of plants commonly known as dragon flowers or snapdragons because of the flowers fancied resemblance to the face of a dragon that opens and closes its mouth when laterally squeezed. The Snapdragon or Antirrhinum exists in a series of different varieties. Their name comes from the fact that when you squeeze the delicate sides of the flowers you see a...

The Independence Day Lalbagh Flower Show from August 7 to 16 2015 welcomed visitors from across the country with the Glass House hosting nearly 800 aesthetic exhibits. The pièce de résistance this year was the replica of the Bangalore Palace created using 2 lakh Dutch roses, apart from the five Maharajas of Mysuru made using flowers. At least five lakh visitors thronged the venue....

Chrysanthemums – What are they? Chrysanthemums or popularly known as ‘mums’ come from the Greek word ‘Chrys’ meaning golden (the color of the original flowers), and ‘anthemon’, meaning flower. Chrysanthemums bloom in various forms and colors with different classifications on size and shapes. They can be daisy like spread or like small buttons or round miniature balls. They bloom in various colors and most...

Ordering flowers always bear the fear, mystery, and uncertainty. We always take into consideration the fear in to our mind that will our flowers to be fresh at the time of delivery to our doorstep, in this way, what comes into our mind to keep this into our mind, when it comes to choose the florist for the flower delivery. Can florists serve you...

There is a variety of flowers according to the types and seasons. Some of them are most popular and famous to their colors and occasions. These famous flowers include Rose, Jessica, Sarah, Azalea and Dahlia. There are many other flowers which we never consider as flowers such as Memphis Eve, Ocean and Apple. There are countless flower names which are famous in most of...

New Year is just like a thing, that is new, and it is a pleasant, and is available for everyone to take and enjoy. New Year is not just a day only, but this is a day, which has enveloped lots of the feelings, happiness, and sense of humors in the minds of the people. New Year is celebrated globally; people from different religion...

Flowers are the strength of the functions; everyone is present in the function, but, if you do not put the presence of the flowers, then you will not be able to fill the gap that is linked with flowers only. This is the reason; presence of flowers is must to make the event more charming. Christmas is coming; this is an event of happiness,...