Essays on Flowers

The Language of Flowers: Providing a Voice for the Voiceless In Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway, flowers tell the reader many things about Clarissa. She uses flowers as pawns in her artificial game of life. Clarissa gives flowers human features and develops human attachments...

In order to fully understand what exotic flora is, one must understand the definition of each word. First off, the word “exotic” means of foreign or alien origin. Second, the word ” flora” usually refers to plants or flowers that are from a particular region....

Flowering plants (angiosperms) have ovules and seeds completely enclosed within carpels. The term angiosperms is derived from two Greek words angeion, meaning “vessel”, and sperma, meaning “seed”. The vessel is the carpels that become ovaries that become fruits. There is one phylum of flowering plants...

Flowers are a thing of beauty and I have not seen a single person who doesn’t like flowers be it any color flowers are preferred by anyone on different occasions. Each flower is unique and it carries a meaning, in past we though flowers are...

Too Good to be True “There is no such thing as a free lunch,” an old adage says; there are often hidden costs behind seemingly harmless offers. Bars in the late 1800’s often advertised “free” lunch if a customer bought one of their drinks. However...

Calla lily (Zantedeschia spp.), a genus of the Araceae family, is a perennial flowering plant and grows naturally in Middle and South Africa (Wei et al., 2017). This genus consists of two sections. The first group is Zantedeschia aethiopica that known as white calla lily...

The announcement by Kenya’s national carrier, Kenya Airways, that it would start cargo flighs to USA in December remains one of the most iconic developments for the Kenyan flower industry that has for years made spirited efforts to capture one of the most promising markets...

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Isolation, identification and frequency of fungi associated with infected lilium with root and bulb rot Two hundred and thirty-seven fungal isolates belonging to five genera and nine species were recovered from diseased lilium showing root and bulb rot symptoms collected from different...

Orchidaceae / Orchid Family Perennial rhizomatous green herb with small white or creamy light yellow, orange speckled flowers. Shoots are about 2-3 dm tall, caulix present at the base of the stem. The leaves (multiple) are alternately cauline, arising from a virgate stem. The leaves...

Germination is the process in which a seedling starts to grow and develops and sprouts into a new plant. Germination is used in many places around the world and it is a small step to improving and growing the natural environment around us. Seedlings tend...