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Flowers are an important gift item in modern society. They are suitable as gifts on a variety of occasions- Birthday, Graduation Day, Mother's Day and Valentine's Day, to name a few. One thing that is worth keeping in mind while presenting or receiving flowers as gifts is the meanings associated with different flowers. These meanings came to be conventionally accepted and seem to vary from culture to culture. In the western culture, there are some standard meanings associated with different flowers. The convention of associating meanings with flowers has been systematized and is now talked of as the language of flowers.

The reason for preferring flowers to convey a message rather than use words is very simple. This way, the communication of the idea becomes more beautiful and subtle. The visual effect seems to make the experience of giving and receiving gifts stick to memory in a more effective way than a mere stream of words.



Flowers in the News

White flowers are garden standouts (Seattle Times)
What flowers are standouts in western gardens.

Nigeria: Bauchi to Grow Flowers in Water Satchets (AllAfrica.com)
Abuja — The Bauchi State Environmental Protection Agency (BASEPA) will soon use packaged water polythene to grow flowers and other plants in nurseries.Dr Dije Bala, the Chairman of the agency, who stated this in Bauchi on Wednesday in an interview, said the agency would design a method of collecting the sachets and sending them to various plant nurseries for incubation of plants.

Nigeria: Environmentalist Wants Space on Highways For Trees, Flowers (AllAfrica.com)
Abuja — Prof. Emmanuel Obot, Executive Director of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF), wants the Lagos State Government to provide spaces for the planting of trees and flowers on highways.

Flowers and much more (Bloomington Sun-Current)
Bonnie Igo purchases flowers at Bloomington Farmers Market Saturday, June 20. The market also hosted the city’s Global Celebration on Saturday. Farmers Market is held each Saturday morning at Bloomington Civic Plaza throughout the summer.

Search warrants executed at Flowers' regional schools office (Chicago Sun-Times)
Investigators from Cook County state's attorney's office this morning raided the Suburban Cook County Regional Office of Education in Westchester in connection with an ongoing probe into Supt. Charles Flowers. The SouthtownStar was the first to report about Flowers' alleged misuse of public money. A state audit released in June confirmed the SouthtownStar findings.

Summer flowers can withstand extreme heat (KY3 Springfield)
Flowers can replace plants that you have already harvested.

More than food or flowers can grow from a garden (The Leaf Chronicle)
Mission Clarksville, a new non-profit organization, is proving that hard work in a garden can grow more than food or flowers. It grows people's spirits. It grows community connection. It grows a sense of responsibility and personal value.

Shinsei: JC Flowers may exit after Aozora merger (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News)
TOKYO, July 1 (Reuters) - Buyout firm JC Flowers and Co could exit its investment in Japan's Shinsei Bank <8303.T> following Shinsei's planned merger with Aozora Bank <8304.T> next year, Shinsei's president, Masamoto Yashiro, said on Wednesday.

300,000 flowers will blossom in Delhi during Commonwealth Games (Calcutta News)
Colourful and fragrant flowers will make Delhi bloom during the Commonwealth Games next year. Scientists at the Forest Research Institute (FRI), Dehradun are busy developing new species of over 300,000 flowering plants for the games.

Thanks for the flowers, thoughts (Eastern Arizona Courier)
Editor: We at Mt. Graham Hospice and Home Health would like to thank Robert Holland at the Safford Mortuary for purchasing flowers to give to our patients for Mother’s Day.