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 Nasturtium
In fact, the nasturtium is classified as an edible plant, and is actually quite good for you. It contains carotenoids and phytoncides, as well as vitamin C in quantities twice that of black currants. In the ordinary garden nasturtium, everything is edible except the root. Its young stems and leaves are good in sandwiches and salads, and add a piquant taste to cheeses and butter. There are also nasturtium vinegar infusions, and it can be dried and used as a spice or, of course, as a decoration for various dishes. And if you dry, shell and grind the seeds, you will have a wonderful substitute for black pepper…
Facts About Orchid
This tropical plant is by right considered an aristocrat among flowers for its unearthly beauty and rapturous fragrance, and for its amazingly capricious behavior under cultivation. Just a short time ago, cultivation of this beauty in northern latitudes was very difficult. For a long while, the secret of the orchid remained unrevealed. In most cases, when plucked from its nearly inaccessible native jungle habitat of Central and South America, the plant would simply die. Greenhouses and hot, moist air offered no help. Only recently have botanists and selectionists learned to work with orchids. American floriculturists have been particularly successful. Every year, California exports hundreds of thousands of these perfect plants…
Facts About Pansy
Although pansies are now very popular and widespread, just 350 years ago there were very few people who knew about them. In the sixteenth century, Prince Wilhelm von Hessen-Cassel conceived an interest in them, and began cultivating pansies in his garden. It was he who first provided a full description of this flower.
In Germany pansies are associated with the face of an evil stepmother. The lower petal, the brightest and most colorful, is the stepmother. The paler petals to her right and left are the stepmother’s daughters. And the two uppermost petals that are, as a rule, pale and monochromatic are the adopted children, the stepsons and stepdaughters. According to this superstition, at one time, the pale petals were underneath, but when the stepmother treated the orphans badly, a good magician took pity on the poor children and turned them upside down. As punishment for mistreating the stepdaughters, he “rewarded” the stepmother with a spur and the evil sisters - with mustaches. And for some, pansies call to mind the grinning visages of elderly gnomes gazing with wonder upon the wide world spread before them…
You can read more about these and other flowers and their qualities if you click on the
History button in the Flower Fantasy program.
