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 Poppy
Because the most widespread poppy species is the opium poppy, for many countries, the association between the poppy and sleep is very clear. People have long been aware of the poppy’s ability to induce calm and sleep, a quality mentioned as far back as ancient Egyptian chronicles. The Egyptians brewed a special concoction called “sleep herb” that was used as an analgesic. They were fully aware of the addiction into which a person could fall with frequent use of the drink. Thus, the poppy was also a symbol of death…
Facts About California Poppy
Poppies are usually crimson or white, but there are varieties with other coloring. For example, there is an amazing blue-colored poppy that grows on the slopes of the Himalayas and flowers for only three weeks out of the year, while on the Pacific coast of North America you can find the California poppy, or eschscholzia, which gladdens the eye with its multiplicity of shades ranging from white and yellow to orange and red. Yellow polar poppies grow in the far north, hiding for long months under a thick layer of snow and ice…
Facts About Primrose
Ancient residents of Europe, primarily the Germans and their Scandinavian neighbors to the north, believed that primrose flowers were the keys used by Freya, the powerful goddess of love, happiness, and fertility, to open the gates for spring. Freya wore a rainbow-shaped necklace forged by skilled dwarf craftsmen. When Freya floated over the world, her jewelry would catch on forests, fields, and hills. Wherever the bright rays of the rainbow fell on the cold ground, primroses would bloom. The use of the name Schlusselblume, or “key-flower,” for the primrose comes down to us from those times. However, there is also a version of the story that says the name is derived from the flowers’ resemblance to church keys hanging in a bunch…
You can read more about these and other flowers and their qualities if you click on the
History button in the Flower Fantasy program.
