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 Daylily
The daylily is quite undemanding, and seems invulnerable to disease. It requires no special care, a quality that has won the hearts of many floriculturists. It is also called the “lazyman’s lily.” In America, where it has become one of the most popular garden inhabitants, over ten thousand varieties have been developed…
Facts About Dicentra
Although the Greek word “dicentra” can be translated as “twice-spurred,” the azure-colored, low-lying shrub with its clusters of pink flowers shaped like stylized hearts pierced through by arrows is best suited by its Russian name, “razbitoye serdtse”, meaning “broken heart.” In Germany, dicentra is called “heart flower,” while in England one hears, among others, the names “squirrel corn” and “Dutchman’s breeches.” It was believed that if a girl tucked one into her bodice, she would meet her future husband that very day…
Facts About Evening Primrose
The evening primrose is quite an interesting decorative plant. As the sun lowers on the horizon, the evening primrose “comes alive.” One after the other hundreds of buds open, creating the illusion of fires blazing in the last rays of the setting sun. All night the evening primrose stands with its flowers open, radiating a pleasant, lemony fragrance that attracts the night insects. And with the sunrise, the entire process repeats, but in the opposite direction…
Facts About Fuchsia
This beauty originated in South America. The Onagraceae family of which the fuchsia is a member numbers nearly 100 tree and shrub species found not only in South and Central America, but in New Zealand and Tahiti, as well. South American Indians called the fuchsia simply “beauty plant,” and cultivated it for its fruits, which they used in their food. But the fuchsia caught the Europeans’ eye for an entirely different reason. In the XVII century, Europe was facing a fearsome disease: malaria…
You can read more about these and other flowers and their qualities if you click on the
History button in the Flower Fantasy program.
