Flower Bed Designer * 3D Screensaver * Over 300 Varieties * Growing Flowers
Flower Fantasy™ Deluxe is a unique computer program that allows you to plant and grow flowers and create wonderful living flower beds right on your computer screen, in full 3D. Flower Fantasy Deluxe includes a brief flower encyclopedia with historical information, interesting legends and useful facts about all the flowers featured in the program
Facts About Flowers
Facts About African Marigolds
Tagetes - the scientific name for African marigolds - are relatives of the aster family and are, like many representatives of that family, endowed with an assortment of qualities that are beneficial and truly unique. They are undemanding when it comes to soil, they grow beautifully during summer dry periods, and, most importantly, they require no special care. Moreover, they have the ability to disinfect the soil where they grow…
Facts About Anthurium
…Of course there is no way that this beauty of a flower can be cultivated in the open air, say in a garden or on a balcony. Even at home, it behaves with relative capriciousness. It finds most every place too cold and too dry, with the exception of its native South and Central American tropical forests. There, anthurium thrives. There are nearly 500 known wild-growing varieties of this plant…
Facts About Bellflowers
…On a summer evening, the Bishop Paulinus was walking in a meadow, taking a break from his work. The air was full of the entrancing smells of field grasses, flowers rustled quietly and swayed from a puff of warm wind, while bumblebees and honeybees, buzzing busily, flew from flower to flower collecting nectar. Everything around him breathed calm and peace. Overcome by the grace that had filled him, Paulinus knelt and began reading a prayer, giving thanks to God for the gift of beauty he had received. Suddenly, he heard the ringing of a bell from nearby. Raising his head and looking around him, the bishop saw a perfect, lilac-colored flower that was producing the melodic tinkling sound. Resolving that God had given him a sign, Paulinus quickly returned to his dwelling, called together his craftsmen, and ordered them to fashion the same “flower” from bronze. This is how the bell first came to be, and the flower was named “bellflower”…
Facts About Calla
…Like the anthurium, the calla is a member of the Araceae Family. What we call the flower is actually a kind of veil protecting hundreds of tiny, plain-looking flowerlets collected on one, long ear. Modern selectionists have raised plants with “veils” displaying many different colors: white, yellow, orange, and many other shades…
You can read more about these and other flowers and their qualities if you click on the
History button in the Flower Fantasy program.
