Flower

story follows Laura on the day of her family’s big garden party as she interacts with members of both classes and prepares for the big event. It is no surprise that a short story called “The Garden Party” is full of descriptions of plants and various flowers. However, Katherine Mansfield utilizes them for more than just the setting. Each plant mentioned holds a deeper symbolic meaning and no plants are mentioned merely as set dressing of the piece. Often seen as the universal symbol of love,…

“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…

Elisa was not satisfied with her husband. When Tinker comes to Elisa for work, first she refuses to give him work. But when he shows his interest in the flowers, Elisa finds him interesting. He flirts with Elisa just to get some work. As their conversation goes on, Elisa feels that Tinker is a person who can understand her. She “removes her gloves” which means she starts to trust him and removes the barriers…

Bees. They make honey, they sting, and they inspired some pretty crazy hairdos in the 1960s. Were you aware though, that bees do much more than just provide us with alternatives to artificial sweeteners? In fact, bees, small as they are, play an immense role in the world’s ecosystem and production of food. So much so that they have a nearly direct effect on every other living thing, especially humans. As with most things in this world, though, people have a tendency to not be good stewards of…

The yellow flowers reflected the happiness her heart yearned for. In the story “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck, a woman named Elisa, is disappointed with her life and also wants to be more equal to men. Through her love for her flowers, Elisa teaches the reader to make more of the life given before it’s too late. Starting off in a gloomy setting, Elisa is a married woman with no children, but has a garden of yellow chrysanthemums to tend to. Her husband, Henry, owns steer that he is…

The trees that were stripped of leaves, left with nothing else other than the branches, start to bud. The life that was previously black and white, is slowly turning into a colourful environment. The flowers are blooming, spreading the news of the arrival of spring. People start to plant flowers, cut grass, and gardening. On a warm day, when the neighbours cut the freshly grown grass, its smell reaches through my house to my chambers and the strong scent hits my nose, firing up my sneezes . …

has proven to be difficult the honeybee endures anyways; consequently due to this nature the honeybee will work itself to death as will her sisters. The honeybee can also use physics to manipulate the pollen production of the flower.…

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…

Bumbled is a 3D platformer/art game inspired by games such as flower, Mister Mosquito and Nights: Into Dreams. In Bumbled you control Queen Garnet, a queen bee whose loyal subjects have all mysteriously vanished. After years of being pampered and attended upon, she is left to her own devices and forced to leave behind her life of luxury in order to gather nectar from flower and find her loyal subjects. Can Queen Garnet survive beyond the hive? The game’s art style is evocative of water colors…

Imagine flies, bugs, and pests surround your house like swarms of bees surround a garden full of flowers. Imagine planting, caring, and/or petting a pet or plant that can make their own food, gather their own foods, and/or survive without rich soil, fertilizer, etc. It's a Venus Flytrap you seek. First of all, Venus Flytrap don’t need fertile soil. Venus is a plant, but it is also a carnivore, too, because it consumes insects to survive. As Venus Flytraps consumes insects, they dissolves in the…