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 Cyclamen
In folk medicine, the cyclamen has long been used as a treatment for head colds, gynecological problems, and nervous ailments. It also helps in cases of rheumatic pains and poisonous snake bite. Floriculture distinguishes two species of cyclamen - European and Persian. They were under cultivation as far back as 1731, and have enjoyed great popularity among floriculturists the world over for many centuries…
Facts About Dahlia
Despite numerous attempts to turn the dahlia into a culinary plant, for example after the 1840s potato-crop failures in France, this flower only found an application in medicine. Until the discovery of insulin, diabetics were often given special diabetic sugar prepared from dahlia tubers…
Facts About Dahlia (Dahlia Cactus)
The first dahlia was described in 1615, one hundred and twenty-three years after the discovery of America, in “Plants and Animals of New Spain,” a book written by the Spanish researcher, Francesco Hernandez. After that, nothing was heard of this plant for over 130 years. It was only after the expedition of Nicolas Joseph Thiery de Menonville, an envoy of the French king, Louis XVI, that there was news of it again. In his notes, Menonville mentions the dahlia as a “very large aster.” Finally, in 1789, the dahlia came to Europe…
Facts About Daisy
Here is another story. One winter the Blessed Virgin decided to surprise her son, Jesus, with a wreath of flowers, but because all the fields were covered in snow, there was not a flower to be had. She resolved to sew them from silk. While she was sewing, the sharp needle poked her finger. Drops of her blood turned some of the white flowers pink. Jesus liked the handmade flowers very much. He took good care of them all winter, and in the spring planted them and began to give them water. Jesus’ love blew life into them, and they were transformed into perfect white and red daisies…
You can read more about these and other flowers and their qualities if you click on the
History button in the Flower Fantasy program.
