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 Rose
Gladiators on their way to wage mortal battle were always rubbed with rose oil, while rich ladies bathed themselves in roses, believing them an elixir for long life. You could buy roses or wreathes of roses in any corner of Rome; there were too many flower-sellers to count. There was even a special stock market where these flowers were bought and sold. The most expensive were roses from Pestum, which bloomed only twice each year. All the fields around Rome were given over to the cultivation of roses, but still this was not enough to feed the capitol city, and ships stood in line to unload their cargoes of flowers to the Eternal City’s port…
Facts About Sinningia
Sinningia was first discovered in the Brazilian jungles in 1785, and had made its appearance in Europe by the start of the nineteenth century. It was first called gloxinia, in honor of B. Gloxin, the German doctor and botanist. There is another version of the story that tells us sinningia received its name from the German word glocke, or “handbell.” And this plant’s flowers are, in fact, quite similar to large handbells…
Facts About Snapdragon
Antirrhinum is the second and official name of the Snapdragon. It derives from two Greek words: “anti” - similar, and “rhinos” - nose, which, again, refer to the flower’s unusual shape. In fact, nature invented the shape for this flower so that bumblebees, honeybees, and other insects flying from one flower to another would promote the pollination it needs to survive…
You can read more about these and other flowers and their qualities if you click on the
History button in the Flower Fantasy program.
