Flower child

bright green leaves are arranged alternatively along the stem (weeds.brisbane.qld.gov.au) and long tendrils curl at the tip of the herbaceous weed (weeds.dpi.nsw.gov.au). Bright red and orange flowers make it a very distinctive plant and is rarely confused with other species (Keysaver.lucidental.org). The flowers are always made up six pedals which have wavy edges and are strongly turned backwards to support the stems (weeds.brisbane.qld.gov.au). The Glory Lily forms dense carpets on dunes…

Bees are a very important part of everyday life and hold major impacts on agriculture, especially in the dispersing of seeds, the flourishing of flowers, and how they are being replenished by wildfires. Most bees are not actually tree dwellers; some actually prefer to burrow in warm soil. Besides being warm, the best soil must be rich in minerals and have plenty of available space. Which is why wildfires affect them more, they are not in the trees, but rather on the ground. In recent years,…

World Leaders such as our President Barack Obama have pleaded for something to be done about this issue. Climate change is also affecting pollination. The climate is disrupting the synchronized timing of flower blooming and the timing at which bees pollinate (Bee Informed). This means that flowers pollinate earlier than scheduled because of the warm temperatures and it happens before the bees even have a chance to pollinate them. If we reduce the amount of fossil fuels that we consume and switch…

“Cornus” derives from the word “cornu”, which today translates into a “horn”. Cornus refers to the hard wood the tree has. While “florida” stems from the Latin word “flos”, which is understood as “flower” or “flowery”. The common name for Cornus florida is Flowering Dogwood. “Flowering” comes from showy spring flowers the tree displays, while “dogwood” was most likely named after it was believed that early colonial people used the wood from the tree to make skewers, which were commonly referred…

The comparison between a typical poem about a woman missing her lover and a poem about a lady ghoul or demon of some sort getting herself ready for a feast with her lover illuminates the powerful way the same signifiers of a woman in love can be wielded by skilled poets to create two equally strong but totally conflicting moods. Poem 212 describes young women playing in water and decorating themselves with nature to the delight of the poet. It starts with the image of a girl’s bodice that is…

Love blossoms like a flower. There are so many different ways and places for the flowers to prosper, just like how love is found in many quantities all around the world. Flowers are often hidden away, like in someone’s backyard where they can only be seen by a select few, just like how love is hidden from the view of some until they choose to open up their eyes a bit wider. After writing To Kill A Mockingbird (TKAM), the author, Harper Lee, when asked to describe her novel, portrayed it as “a…

. The reader learns immediately from Louis, another outlier, that “…Bernard, Neville, Jinny, and Susan (but not Rhoda) skim the flower beds with their nets” (Woolf 6). Woolf’s use of a parenthetical statement, which interjects a modifier into the sentence, emphasizes Rhoda’s absence from the activity. In addition, Louis’s statement about Rhoda and her lack of participation in the butterfly catching is the first external description the reader has of her as a character. By making this initial…

Universally accepted as symbols of beauty, flowers are often used to symbolize love. Although beautiful, they are of a delicate nature that can only survive temporarily in this world. Often people observe their magnificence in the seclusion of gardens, where they are rarely left to grow freely. Contained within flowers are manifold functional uses, but their purpose is confined to being observed for their beauty, much like what was expected of women. In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, a man…

chamomile is an annual plant with a branched stem, 20-50 cm high. The leaves are doubly spliced split with narrow and thread-like leaves. Flower stalks is grooved and hollow at the top. Flower is conical shape and hollow inside. Flower heads carry peripheral white flowers that at night or in rainy weather or after fertilization, bow down, while the tubular flowers are yellow color. Smell and taste: the smell of chamomile is a distinctive, spicy, balsamic and ethereal, what is the taste too but…

East, namely India and China. In the Himalayas it was considered sacred throughout the region, especially in India where it is the sacred flower of Kama, the god of love. Jasmine are recognized by a characteristic showy, flowering bud whose fragrance can easily envelop an entire room or garden. Jasmine are white and yellow in color; born in clusters of three flowers in some species, but also presenting in solitary branchlets in others. Jasmine can either have leaves that fall in autumn or…