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 Cornflower
The cornflower is a plant that is without doubt possessed of useful medicinal properties. As early as the end of the sixteenth century the English botanist, John Gerard, and, after him, in the mid-seventeenth century, his countryman, Nicholas Culpepper made a place for the cornflower in their atlases of useful plants. They maintained that the juice of the cornflower could neutralize the effect of scorpion venom. Although this was later ascertained to be untrue, it was established that the juice of its flowers mixed with thallium water could be used to treat eye ailments and improve vision…
Facts About Cosmos
The flower’s name comes from the Greek word kosmos, which is translated as “world.” Cosmos received its second name “kosmea” from the Greek word kosmeo, meaning “decoration.” If one puts both names together the result is “decoration of the world” - the perfect name for such a remarkable flower…
Facts About Crocosmia
Crocosmia acquired its scientific name from two Greek words: krokos - “crocus” and osme - “aroma, smell,” which, taken together, signify “smelling like a crocus.” …
Facts About Crocus
The poetically inclined Greeks believed the crocus to be a flower of joy and happiness, offering gifts of laughter and merriment. They dedicated it to the goddess of the morning sunrise, Aurora, while the pragmatic Romans used it as a pleasant-smelling distraction during mass spectacles at theaters and stadiums…
You can read more about these and other flowers and their qualities if you click on the
History button in the Flower Fantasy program.
