Aug
19
Flower bouquet
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A flower bouquet is a collection of flowers in a creative arrangement. There are different kinds including nosegay, hand-tied, and cascading bouquets. Flower bouquets are often given for special occasions such as birthdays or anniversaries. They are also used extensively in weddings. Traditionally the bride will choose these flowers.
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Aug
19
Helianthemum apenninum
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Helianthemum apenninum, the white rock-rose, is a white-flowering rock rose found in dry grassy and rocky places across large parts of Europe.
H. apenninum flowers from March to July, and may grow up to 50 cm tall. The flowers are pentamerous, up to 30 mm across, and are white with yellow centres and yellow stamens. The three outer […]
Aug
19
Gennifer Flowers
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Gennifer Flowers (born January 24, 1950) is one of three women who have claimed to have had affairs with U.S. President Bill Clinton. She is the only one of the three who claims to have had a child by Clinton, a son whom she later gave up for adoption.
She came forward during Clinton’s 1992 […]
Aug
19
Agave chiapensis
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Agave chiapensis is a species of agave.
It is a medium-sized agave, with spreading rosettes of light green leaves that are variable but tend toward the ovate. The teeth of the leaf margins are deltoid and may be found either small (3-4 mm) and closely spaced, or larger (5-10 mm) and further apart. The strong terminal […]
Aug
19
Raceme
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A raceme is a type of inflorescence that is unbranched and indeterminate and bears pedicellate flowers — flowers having short floral stalks called pedicels — along the axis. In botany, axis means a shoot, in this case one bearing the flowers. In a raceme, the oldest flowers are borne towards the base and new […]
Aug
19
The Gizmos
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The Gizmos were a proto-punk band that formed in Bloomington, Indiana in 1975. Both leading members, Eddie Flowers and
Rich Coffee would move to Los Angeles in the late 1970s and become
active in the post-punk, underground rock scene there. Flowers would
start Crawlspace with ex-members of the Lazy Cowgirls in 1985,
starting out in a punk rock vein […]
Aug
18
Dahlia ‘Bishop of Llandaff’
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Dahlia ‘Bishop of Llandaff’ is a branching, tuberous tender perennial cultivar with dark eggplant-colored, almost black, foliage. This produces a stunning contrast with its scarlet flowers. The plant was named to honour Pritchard Hughes, Bishop of Llandaff, in 1924 and won the RHS Award of Garden Merit in 1928. The plant is […]
Aug
18
White garden
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A White Garden is a feature garden comprised of plants that produce white flowers and spathes as well as plants with a white or silvery cast to their foliage. The white garden is a variant of the color garden. The most essential feature of the white garden is its unity of colour.
The white garden is […]
Aug
18
Corsage (bodice)
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Corsage refers to the bodice of a dress. In the 19th century, corsage was a common term for a woman’s bodice or jacket.
In modern usage, corsage is often confused with a corset, but a corset is tighter. A bridal corset is often a corsage.
Originally, a bouquet of flowers, flower bud, or a bow was […]
Aug
18
Flowers (Echo & the Bunnymen album)
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Flowers is a music album by Echo & the Bunnymen. It was released in 2001.
Track listing
“King of Kings”
“SuperMellow Man”
“Hide & Seek”
“Make Me Shine”
“It’s Alright”
“Buried Alive”
“Flowers”
“Everybody Knows”
“Life Goes On”
“An Eternity Turns”
“Burn for Me”
External links
The Ultimate Echo and the Bunnymen Discography, Tab & Lyric Site
Aug
18
The Fourth World (album)
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The Fourth World (1997) is an album released by the Los Angeles band Kara’s Flowers. The album contains 11 tracks plus one bonus track on the Japanese edition.
The band signed with Reprise Records and released the album on August 19, 1997VH1.com: Kara’s Flowers Artist Page Accessed August 18th, 2007.. However, the band had little […]
Aug
17
Birds, Beasts, & Flowers (album)
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For the poetry collection by D.H. Lawrence, see Birds, Beasts and Flowers.
Birds, Beasts, and Flowers is a split EP between indie rock band The Autumn Defense and indie folk band Hem on the Arena Rock Recording Co. label.
Track listing
Half Acre (Hem)
Bluebirds Fall (The Autumn Defense)
Pacific Street (Hem)
You Know Where I Live […]
Aug
17
The Flowers of Romance (band)
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The Flowers of Romance was an early punk band, formed in the summer of 1976 (see 1976 in music) by Jo Faull and Sarah Hall. The band never played live or released any recordings, and, like London SS and Masters of the Backside, are more famed for the number of band members that later became […]
Aug
17
Flowers for Rhino
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“Flowers for Rhino” is a critically acclaimed Spider-Man story by Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo. Published in 2001, it is a pastiche of the classic Science Fiction story “Flowers for Algernon.” Rhino, a brutish and dim-witted enemy of Spider-Man, undergoes a brain operation that turns him into a super-genius, but has the unfortunate side-effect of […]
Aug
17
Birds, Beasts, & Flowers (album)
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For the poetry collection by D.H. Lawrence, see Birds, Beasts and Flowers.
Birds, Beasts, and Flowers is a split EP between indie rock band The Autumn Defense and indie folk band Hem on the Arena Rock Recording Co. label.
Track listing
Half Acre (Hem)
Bluebirds Fall (The Autumn Defense)
Pacific Street (Hem)
You Know Where I Live […]
Aug
16
Flowers and Trees
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Flowers and Trees was a 1932 Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Burt Gillett, and released to theatres by United Artists on July 30, 1932. It was the first commercially released film to be produced in the full-color three-strip Technicolor process, after several years of two-color Technicolor films.
Flowers and Trees was already […]
Aug
16
House of Flowers
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House of Flowers may refer to:
Tito’s mausoleum, whose Serbo-Croatian name Kuća Cveća means “House of Flowers”
A short novella by Truman Capote, usually published along with his longer novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s
House of Flowers, a 1954 Broadway Musical based on Truman Capote’s novella of the same name
Aug
16
Pressed flower craft
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Pressed flower craft consists of drying flower petals and leaves in a flower press to flatten and exclude light and moisture. Pressing flowers makes them appear flat, and often there is a change in color, ranging from faded colors to a greater intensity of vibrant colors.
The pressed flowers and leaves are then used for a […]
Aug
16
White Checkermallow
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The White Checkermallow, Sidalcea candida, is a wildflower found from Nevada to Wyoming and south to the southern part of New Mexico. The plant grows to three feet, and is also known as Wild Hollyshock. Its flowers are about one inch wide with five petals. It is found mostly in mountain meadows and along streams. […]
Aug
16
Kentucky Wisteria
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The Kentucky Wisteria (Wisteria macrostachya) is a woody deciduous vine found in the southeastern United States, including its namesake state of Kentucky. It is very similar to the American Wisteria (Wisteria frutescens).
Kentucky Wisteria bears unscented bluish-purple flowers in racemes 15-30 cm long, a generally average length for the Wisteria family. It produces these flowers after […]