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 Gazania
Despite its African origins, gazania grows quite nicely in cooler climatic zones. It is not overly affected by the surrounding air temperature or moisture; for gazanie, sunlight is a much more important factor. There are nearly 40 known varieties of these plants in nature, all of which are drought-resistant and love light. They are so devoted to the sun that they don’t even open on cloudy days; they can remain shut for days…
Facts About Gladiolus
Doctors in the Middle Ages noted the healing properties of the gladiolus… But most importantly, they thought, the gladiolus possessed magical powers, and could protect a man from arrow and sword. For this reason courageous knights, infantrymen, and mercenaries wore under their armor amulets containing the root of this plant. Demand for this “miracle-working” talisman was so great that gladiolus was cultivated especially for this purpose…
Facts About Hosta
In less than two centuries, floriculturists have managed to create over 2,000 distinct varieties of hosta, differing in leaf shape and size, coloring, and flower combinations. For example, there are hostas with glossy, wrinkled, pinched leaves with a waxy coating and a metallic tint, while their flower coloring can range from the traditional green to light-blue and white, occasionally including two- and three-color variations…
Facts About Hyacinth
The double hyacinth also owes its appearance to luck. One famous Harlem floriculturist was a great admirer of hyacinths. According to his method, every bud deviating from the norm was removed so that it would not interfere with the growth of “correct” flower clusters. One day, he became ill and stayed in bed for a few days. Over that time, a very unusual flower appeared and bloomed. When the floriculturist felt better and returned to his garden, he was greeted with a double hyacinth. He named the variety “Maria,” but it did not last. The next two double hyacinths died as well, but the fourth, the “King of England,” survived to give life to many modern varieties…
You can read more about these and other flowers and their qualities if you click on the
History button in the Flower Fantasy program.
