Flower News Archive - Apr 2008

PR Web

Instead of giving mom a traditional bouquet of flowers for Mother's Day this year, give her something more endearing and certainly longer lasting.

Telegraph.co.uk

Hemerocallis - or day lilies - are plants that suffer from prejudice. The first assumption, that they flower for a short time, is grounded in fact.

The Post

Pakistan produces best quality of flowers that include roses. This flower is called 'king of flowers' and is popular all over the world.

theopenpress

Many people grow natural house plants in their home but these require a great deal of maintenance most people no longer have as they run off to their jobs. In this modern world many are turning to artificial house plants to cut down on maintenance.

Sowetan

She is a seed from the North, transplanted to Gauteng where she has been nurtured so well that she has bloomed into a rare and beautiful flower, the dewy petals and dizzying fragrance of which captivates everyone.

Daily Herald

When shopping for perennials in springtime, it's hard to resist a pot filled with blooming columbines. The unique and showy spurred flowers nodding above dainty clumps of handsome blue-green foliage are quite charming.

KMBC

Troost Avenue is one of Kansas City's oldest avenues, and the Tulips on Troost project seeks to celebrate the avenue's past and improve on its future.

Rocky Mountain

Though sun plants seem to get all the credit for showy displays, there are many shade plants with pleasing textures, forms and colors. Here are plants that not only will thrive in afternoon or full shade, but will liven it up, and make you want to plunk down lounge chairs and be surrounded by them.

SCIAM

Shakespeare once said a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. And that's as true today as it was 400 years ago. What's different now, though, is that their smell doesn't travel as far as it used to. Or so say scientists in a study that appears online in the journal Atmospheric Environment.

Greater Kashmir

Fall isn't the only season to pinch and prune perennials. Certain plants that make repeat performances prefer to be pampered in the spring.

bucyrustelegraphforum

We humans aren't the only ones to experience a bad hair day. A cluster of low-growing pasque flowers can appear to be having such an experience right before they open to the warmth of spring.

Pravda

Scientists of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Natalya Kozirovska and Irina Zayec proved it possible to plant herbs on the Moon. During the experiment they managed to plant marigold on the soil, identical to the Moon regolite.

Mission Times Courier

Shrub roses are easy to grow and cover any landscape with gorgeous color and flowers. They look beautiful spilling over the sides of a container, either alone or mixed with your favorite perennials or annuals.

commentisfree.guardian

A flower exudes fragrance, each species with its own cocktail of aromatic chemicals evolved over millions of years to attract pollinating animals.

The Hindu

Pollution is endangering the most essential cycles of nature. A new study has revealed that pollution from vehicle exhausts is destroying the fragrance of flowers, and thereby inhibiting the ability of pollinating insects such as bees to follow scent trails to their source.

Athens Messenger

The washed out tones of the winter months have been replaced by a season of growth. Wildflowers are in bloom and the landscape of Southeastern Ohio is teeming with color.

In&Out

Every home can use a little flora and fauna. Green is the color of nature, the hue of life. Whether you choose silk or the real deal, here are some ideas to choose your style and help add life to your space.

ContraCostaTimes

Flowers are like old friends; they reliably bloom in the mixed borders each season, bringing with them memories of former times. The pastel colors of the spring garden are the promise of the seasons that will follow.

Daily News Transcript

Spring ephemeral woodland wildflowers can inspire chlorophyll addiction, even in recalcitrant non-gardeners.

Pittsburgh Entertainment

Spring is a nose's best friend. Each year, the season pulls our sniffers out of winter's doldrums with nature's sweet smells -- of grass, freshly turned dirt, budding blossoms -- that have emotional and olfactory heft. Memories of those scents last a lifetime.

The News-Press

Pretty silk flowers are a great way to usher some spring color into your home. If you're new to flower-arranging, you'll need some inexpensive tools and equipment.

Cochrane Times

Buying some flowers to brighten someone 's day may also help make cancer history.

Knoxville News Sentinel

It's only human nature to be inspired by nature. Just ask the designers who have cultivated one of spring's most important trends - botanical prints. They have definitely taken a moment to stop and smell the roses and other flowers.

AuburnPub

Every year Americans seem to recite "April showers bring May flowers" in anticipation of spring. We enjoy spotting the first green sprouts foreshadowing beautiful flower blooms that are a sure sign of rejuvenation and new life.

Vaughan Today

Gardeners are usually the first to sing the praises of spring. After a long, gloomy winter, we?re more than ready to get outdoors and marvel at the crocuses blooming through the remaining crusts of icy snow.

Telegraph.co.uk

The origins of a genetic mutation loved by many rose growers has been pinpointed by scientists. A French team has now traced the DNA change that gives the blossoms of some roses the scent of a newly opened packet of tea, hence "tea roses".

guardian.co.uk

The heavily polluted air of cities is destroying the fresh scents of flowers before they have had a chance to spread into the surrounding environment, according to a new study.

canada.com

Snowdrops and crocuses signal the end of winter and daffodils bloom when spring is more a promise than a fact.

Herald Review

Spring always brings early flowers such as crocus and daffodil to brighten up the area, but there is one other bright yellow fellow that arrives early as well.

Greater Kashmir

Climate change is about more than endangered polar bears in the Arctic or melting ice sheets in the Antarctic. The flowers and plants in your own backyard or neighborhood park also may have a role in this global drama.

The Times of India

A rose smells as sweet by any other name but not in any other air, especially polluted air. A new study has found flowers are fast losing their fragrance, and the culprit is air pollution.

Springville

We are often dismayed as we look at our landscape and gardens to see what Old Man Winter has left us with. Branches, late-falling autumn leaves, brown grasses and even soggy areas with standing water.

ConnPost

Looking for inspiration for landscape gardening? Spend several days overlooking the ocean. In such an environment, one can't help but notice the brown thorny stalks that will soon develop into lush foliage and rose blossoms.

Fredericksburg

Camellias are easily recognized by their round, rose-like flowers and smooth, waxy green leaves.

Hindu Business Line

This summer, besides the splendid mountains, valleys and lakes, Kashmir has an added attraction in the form of a colourful tulip garden. The Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden is among the largest in Asia. Thousands of tourists, as well as locals, are thronging the garden, which is in full bloom.

Cassopolis Vigilant

Though not in full force yet, spring is here and with it the chance to beautify our homes and businesses, along with improving our own looks. Gardening can keep you healthy while you add color, texture and smell to your yard.

Metro

That old rhyme "April showers bring May flowers " may be true for your garden, but April might also be the first post-snow opportunity to inspect your roof.

Argus Leader

What smells like spring? Think lilacs. Lilacs, native to Europe and Asia, thrive in our harsh climate and for winter-weary gardeners addled with cabin fever, the smell alone signals the beginning of a new season.

StarNewsOnline

As if preparing to welcome royalty, Wilmington, North Carolina, United States has burst into shades of pink, white, purple and vibrant red tones. Papery dogwoods. Wisteria's amethyst blooms dripping from trees. And the stars: azaleas everywhere.

Mangalorean

"Queen of fragrance" the modest jasmine belonging to the botanical 'Oleaceae' family, considered by the ancients as 'a one-way ticket to paradise when one is down or sad,' is all set to hit the European shores.

Suburban Journals

Ah, the rose. No other flower conjures up such passion, sentimentality and delight. No one is sure exactly what it is about this flower that inspires such adoration, but my guess is it's the fragrance.Even though some modern hybrid roses aren't fragrant, there are still many varieties with an intoxicating scent that will knock your socks off.

Manila Bulletin

Since time immemorial, beautiful flowers have become a very strong fascination to a great majority of people everywhere in the world.

Telegraph.co.uk

For the freshest cut flowers, with the lowest air miles, why not have a go at growing your own. Here is a seasonal guide to the best varieties to plant and sow.

Statesman

April showers bring May flowers, as the saying goes, but because Earth Day is coming up (April 22), it's time to get a jump on those blooms.

Athens Review

Roses are red, violets are blue, flowers aren?t just for picking anymore, they're tasty, too.

KOLD

If you give flowers as a gift you are viewed as more successful, caring, and emotionally intelligent, according to a Rutgers University, New Jersy study.

toledoblade

Early spring planting can be exciting at ground level thanks to annuals and perennials. But look up. Is your yard bare up there? Time to plant a few early-flowering trees and shrubs.

Los Angeles Times

The flower people are in heaven. Fuchsia, orange and lemony-yellow blooms pose and sway across Southern California's wild lands, ready for their digital moments. Hummingbirds gorge on clumps of creamy monkey flowers. New shoots explode overnight: popcorn flowers, milkmaids, sun cups, sand verbenas, tiny Johnny-jump-ups, scarlet poppies. Clusters of lavender lupine that smell like grape soda.

The Republican Eagle

Most of us enjoy seeing gorgeous gardens pictured in magazines, but few of us attempt to replicate them. The possibility seems overwhelming ? not to mention time consuming and expensive.

Victoria News

You don't need formal training to plan a garden; a good dose of common sense can be as valuable as a Ph.D. Time should be one of your first considerations. Only you know how much of it you have to devote to this purpose.

7online.com

Flowers that are pollinated by insects are often brightly colored and fragrant. They are advertising the fact that they offer nectar or other substances for different creatures to feed on. Pollinators pick up the sticky pollen as they feed and transfer it to other flowers.

Times Daily

With spring comes flourishing foliage and blooming flowers that may just be in your garden. For green thumbs who are itching to get going, staff writer Trevor Stokes talked with Dwight James, owner of Coldwater Seed and Supply in Tuscumbia, Alabama about spring planting.

Washingtonpost

Air pollution interferes with the ability of bees and other insects to follow the scent of flowers to their source, undermining the essential process of pollination, a study by three University of Virginia researchers suggests.

Thaindian

Sweet pea, whose Latin name lathyrus odoratus means delicate pleasures, has been named Britain's best-scented summer annual flower in a new survey.

Telegraph.co.uk

'Recreado' is a sultry doge-purple single late. Although not as dramatically black as 'Queen of Night', or as stylishly elegant as the lily-flowered 'White Triumphator' it performs in the garden brilliantly.

Times-Standard

April showers bring May flowers, but April frost just might cost. This is why it is vital to plant warm season plants later on, and protect those early planted starts now.

HULIQ

Spring is the season for change and nothing signifies it better than Spring Cleaning and gardening. This season brings with it a fresh breeze of ideas for anyone interested in revamping their home or garden from its winter blues.

Springfield News-Leader

Everyone loves wildflowers, those harbingers of spring that whisk away memories of winter's cold grasp and inspire a rebirth of faith in the eternal mystical forces that set the seasons in order.

North American Precis Syndicate

Each year, millions of Americans purchase bouquets of flowers for Mother's Day-making it one of the top blossom-buying days of the year.

The Independent

Fire and ice. Oil and water. One would think the searing heat of a kiln has little to say to the delicate daisy. But for every flower there is a mass of tender roots, and what better shelter than a beautifully hand thrown pot, hardened in the finishing fire.

East Texas Review

Prune spring-flowering shrubs soon after flowering. Keep the natural shape of the plant in mind as you prune, and avoid excessive cutting except where necessary to control size.

Commodity Online

State Institute of Rural Development (SIRD), Karfecter, South Sikkim has undertaken a special project of floriculture under Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna taking into account the cluster approach.

The Daily Beacon

It's spring, and fashion is as bright and striking as the blossoming flowers. The season's top looks are about vivid color, bold patterns and dramatic accessories.

News Media Resource

Look around and you'll see that everything is coming up roses? and tulips and daffodils, as fabulous florals burst onto centre stage in the fashion world. A pretty floral or botanical print is a simple and surefire way to freshen up your wardrobe this season.

Daily India

The Kashmir Valley, India is known for its colourful gardens. Now Jammu too has a flower garden at the Bhour Camp.

MSN Money

For those who pay attention to such things, April is traditionally a good time for investors. There may be a number of factors to explain this phenomenon - at least in the normal course of events.

Independent.ie

The flower is very distinctive, with five tubes, five pointed petals just behind and five long spurs from the flower.

Seacoast Online

The canna, the old-fashioned bedding flower, is coming back into favor after having been banished for awhile with Victorian houses.

The Star Online

It is a plant with an awful stench but its beauty is enough to stop nature-lovers in their tracks.