Category: General

Are you interested in obtaining inexpensive, solar-powered air purifiers for your home? Look no further than your favorite florist or plant nursery. Research done by NASA has proven that some houseplants are powerful air cleaners; certain plants can clean up to as much as 87% of pollutants from the air within a day. Using one plant per…Continue reading

Photo via U.S. Department of Agriculture (Flickr) You may think that all of the flowers have gone with winter’s approach, but I am happy to say you are wrong. If you like the magical icy scenery in the animated fairy tale Frozen, then you will love frost flowers. When I first heard of frost flowers, I…Continue reading

Whether it is on your dining room table or on the silver screen, flowers steal the show. Some of the most memorable scenes from movies are those with flowers. It isn’t surprising really — flowers communicate so much more than words in a way that is hard to forget. Chances are one of your favorite…Continue reading

Throughout time, flowers have been a way to say what words just could not. This probably comes as no surprise to you, since flowers are still a popular way to convey feelings to the one you love. The Victorian era was a time when floriography, or the language of flowers, reached its height. In a time…Continue reading

Perhaps the most famous plant of all time is Audrey II, the man-eating plant from the musical comedy Little Shop of Horrors. In the musical, the bizarre Audrey II falls to earth from outer space and is cared for by Seymour at a florist’s shop. Seymour discovers that Audrey II is not like other plants: Instead…Continue reading

Photo via liz west (Flickr) Can you imagine a world without the color and beauty of flowers? Flowers may be beautiful, but they are also baffling, at least to scientists. Even after much study, the exact time when the first flowers appeared is not known. It is estimated that flowering plants emerged between 140 million and…Continue reading

How many of us stop to consider how fruit comes about when we reach for that apple or blackberry? Not too many of us, I will wager. Technically, a fruit is the ripened ovary of a plant which contains a seed or seeds; thus, even beans, nuts, corn, and many other foods you wouldn’t think…Continue reading

In the past, I have posted about carnivorous plants, foul-smelling flowers, and flowers that bloom in the moonlight; you may be thinking that I’ve written about most of the unusual flowers in the world, but that is not the case! It seems like the list of unusual flowers goes on and on and that more…Continue reading

Flowers are so beautiful that it is hard to believe that they are anything but good; however, many common flowers are extremely toxic to pets if eaten. I highly recommend that you keep the phone numbers for pet poison control handy and that you always know the common and scientific name of plants on your…Continue reading

Summer is in full bloom, and now is the time to capture the fleeting beauty of flowers forever with your camera. Keep your camera handy, because you may be inspired in your garden or even on a country roadside; you never know where you will be when the perfect subject appears. I think every flower…Continue reading