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Tulips: Facts and Folklore About the World's Most Planted Flower

Tulips: Facts and Folklore About the World's Most Planted Flower celebrates this enduring flower and how it has captured the hearts and imaginations of gardeners and collectors for over 500 years. Lavishly illustrated with photographs by the world-renowned photographer Malak, Tulips is a stunning pictorial history of the flower's beauty and versatility.
Arriving from Turkey and taking Western Europe by storm, tulips have endured and are a mainstay for gardeners and collectors alike, with varieties still grown today that originated in the seventeenth century. Tulips also represent the deep friendship between the Netherlands and Canada, forged by the vagaries of World War II and the role this country played in liberating the Netherlands. Any visitor to Ottawa will marvel at the assortment of tulips adorning the grounds surrounding the Parliament Buildings.
Included are numerous photographs that reveal the cast bulb fields of Holland, home of the tulip. Readers will discover many little-known facts about tulips, including that they can be eaten and that there are more than 3,000 varieties grown all over the world in every shade of the rainbow-and black varieties as well. Master gardener Sonia Day combines tulip lore with practical tips for growing tulips in your own garden. She shares her extensive knowledge of the subject with readers and offers many ideas and suggestions for successfully and easily cultivating tulips at home.

I acquired a Venus Fly Trap (Dionea muscipula), and having been growing it. A few weeks after I got it, it started growing a flower spike. I had never heard of these plants flowering, so I looked it up and sure enough they do. This is the result.


The Venus Flytrap, Dionaea muscipula, is a carnivorous plant that catches and digests animal prey—mostly insects and arachnids. Its trapping structure is formed by the terminal portion of each of the plant's leaves and is triggered by tiny hairs on their inner surfaces. When an insect or spider crawling along the leaves comes into contact with one or more of the hairs twice in succession, the trap closes. The requirement of redundant triggering in this mechanism serves as a safeguard against a waste of energy in trapping objects with no nutritional value.
The plant's common name refers to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, whereas the genus name refers to Dione. Dionaea is a monotypic genus closely related to the waterwheel plant and sundews.

Source: Wikipedia.

SO I accidentally deleted this one while trying to delete the other version I had of this one. Sorry about that, I'm a big klutz!

Here is a re-upload of a picture I took in my mums garden of a pulsatilla flower. I love plants and flowers and really enjoy taking photographs of them, so I should do it more! Despite having a large garden now, I still haven't grown any of these myself - but I don't know why really, as they're are quite lovely, don't you agree? :D

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A Garden of spirituall flowers. planted by Ri. Ro., Will. Per., Ri. Gree., M.M., and Geo. Web.
Rogers, Richard, 1550?-1618.
Attributed to Richard Rogers, William Perkins, Richard Greenham, and George Webbe.--Cf. NUC pre-1956 imprints.
Signatures: A-G8 H7.
Title in ornamental border.
Imperfect: pt. 1 only of 2 pts.
[126] p.
London : Printed by W. White for T. Pauier, and are to be sold in Iuie Lane, 1616.
STC (2nd ed.) / 21207.5
English
Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library


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