Flowers Speak A Thousand Words

When words cannot be spoken, flowers can do it for you, conveying messages to the receiver of a gift of plants, trees, and flowers on significant occasions and milestones in their life is living proof of a special time, when planted in the garden blooming year after year brings joy and happiness remembering, thus memories are made of this.

Garden plants grow strong and produce beautiful blooms which we take for granted, but not a lot of people would wonder about how the plant or flower came by its name. Many flowers are named after the people who introduced them, for example the Bougainvillea, was named after a French admiral, Louis de Bougainvillea, who discovered the vine growing in Brazil during a long journey to the Pacific Ocean in 1768.

In Greek mythology the Narcissus was named after a handsome youth that scornfully spurned the love of the nymph Echo, thus the goddess Aphrodite punished him by making him fall in love with his own reflection in a pool and because he obviously was unable to possess the image he pined away and became the flower that now bears his name.

Over many years flowers have been named after royalty and famous stars, the Marilyn Monroe rose is an apricot colour hybrid rose, Julie Andrews is the name of a coral-salmon hybrid rose, a special variety of Tulip was named after Bollywood beauty and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai in 2005, and orchids are named after Princess Diana and Queen Elizabeth in Singapores botanical Garden.

The Queen was again presented with a rare orchid named in her honour at this years Chelsea Flower Show, also other royal blooms unveiled at the show were a sweetpea and rose named after the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the newly weds.

Other celebrities were honoured with plants and roses named after them Helen Mirren was delighted with the launch of the Helen a carnivorous plant, also the Natasha a rose named after the late actress Natasha Richardson, daughter of Vanessa Redgrave.

The garden we plant is always a thing of beauty and the avid gardener looks to shows like the Chelsea Flower Show for inspiration and tries, in a smaller scale of course, to replicate what they have seen and been inspired by.

Gardeners today are so much more adventurous and artistic than gardeners of yesteryear; they do wonderful things with container plants, hanging basket plants, and weave bedding plants, and garden bulbs, in and out of vegetable plants.

A spokesman for Blooming Direct, a horticultural online business on the Island of Jersey, said gardeners are very clever especially in urban areas where space is limited where they make the most of the area they have and will plant all sorts in containers, even garden shrubs and perennial plants. Gardening is now a very popular hobby and we are busy shipping out plug plants all over the UK because at this time of the year when the sun is shining what better than to see vibrant colour in your own personal space. He went on to say we stock everything for the garden and orders to the UK are absolutely FREE.

Trees and plants are living things and worth giving as a gift to mark a special occasion, after all memories are made of this.

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