Pansies are supposed to like it cool, but those great velvety flowers were healthy and perky in the glaring sun.

There will be masses of flowers, reproductions of the handsome old buildings with their grillwork and other things that are typical of New Orleans.

The flowers are in the main not particularly distinctive, being of a general ' lily type ', with six tepals, either free or fused from the base.

Species are used as food and flavourings ( e. g. onion, garlic, leek, asparagus, vanilla ), as cut flowers ( e. g. freesia, gladiolus, iris, orchids ), and as garden ornamentals ( e. g. day lilies, lily of the valley, Agapanthus ).

The flowers are often at the tip of the stem and are mainly of a rather generalized ' lily type ', with six tepals and up to six stamens.

* The flowers of Asparagales are of a general type among the lilioid monocots.

They are commonly called " Christmas Bells ", because of the shape of their flowers and their flowering time, which coincides with Christmas in Australia.

The flowers are radially symmetrical.

The individual flowers are small, with tepals joined at the base.

The individual flowers are blue, shortly tubular, with an inferior ovary.

The sub-umbellate inflorescences are borne at the end of long stems, having numerous bright red flowers, which are radially symmetric with inferior ovaries.

Members of the family are usually perennial herbs with sword-shaped unifacial leaves ; the inflorescence is a spike or panicle of solitary flowers, or forms a monochasial cyme or rhipidium ( meaning that the successive stems of the flowers follow a zig-zag path in the same plane ); and the flower has only three stamens, each opposite to an outer tepal.

The flowers are arranged in various types of inflorescence.

The flowers are quite large, blue or white, forming an umbel at the end of a stem ( scape ) which is longer than the leaves.

They are herbaceous perennials with bulbs, and can be identified by their rather fleshy leaves, usually large and attractive flowers, with six stamens and an inferior ovary.

The flowers are solitary or, more frequently, arranged in umbellate inflorescences at the end of a stem ( scape ).

Proposed subgroups are difficult to recognise, having similar ' lily-like ' flowers, with the result that some members of the group have been included in different subgroups at different times.

The flowers are usually arranged in inflorescences, and the mature seeds lack endosperm.

Most aquatic species have a totally submerged juvenile phase, and flowers are either floating or emergent.

Several genera are popular with the horticultural community, including marigold, pot marigold ( also known as calendula ), cone flowers, various daisies, fleabane, chrysanthemums, dahlias, zinnias, and heleniums.

The flowers are nearly always aggregated in terminal umbels, simple or compound, often umbelliform cymes, rarely in heads.

The flowers are nearly perfectly pentamerous, with 5 petals, sepals, and stamens.

The genus also contains several well-known ornamental plants, such as Amaranthus caudatus ( love-lies-bleeding ), a native of India and a vigorous, hardy annual with dark purplish flowers crowded in handsome drooping spikes.

Several cultivars are known, such as ' Albus ' ( with white flowers ), ' Sapphire ' ( dark blue flowers ), ' Aureus ' ( leaves striped with yellow ), and ' Variegatus ' ( leaves almost entirely white with a few green bands ).

* Nepeta grandiflora ( Giant Catmint or Caucasus Catmint ) is lusher than true catnip and has dark green leaves and dark blue, almost purple flowers.

The flowers are dark pink, with a purple central spike, produced on finely hairy stems.

The leaves are dark glossy green, and the flowers white, similar to other citrus flowers, borne singly or clustered in the leaf-axils.

Other South African species are: T. arvense, hare's-foot trefoil ; found in fields and dry pastures, a soft hairy plant with minute white or pale pink flowers and feathery sepals ; T. fragiferum, orange clover, with hot-grounded, globose, rose-purple heads and swollen calyxes ; T. procumbens, hop trefoil, on dry pastures and roadsides, the heads of pale yellow flowers suggesting miniature hops ; and the somewhat similar T. minus, common in pastures and roadsides, with smaller heads and small yellow flowers turning dark brown.

The tree is an evergreen with dark green leaves and small yellow flowers, and grows up to 12 meters tall.

A seed strain has been produced from this plant called ' Bishops Children ', they retain the dark foliage color but produce a mix of flower colors and flower shapes from single to semi-double flowers in different sizes.

Good nectar producers, blackberry shrubs bearing flowers yield a medium to dark, fruity honey.

In most species the flowers are white, but in some species ( notably H. macrophylla ), can be blue, red, pink, light purple, or dark purple.

The trees are also grown as ornamentals for their abundant brightly colored and unusually-shaped fruits, as well as for their attractive dark green leaves and their lavender to pink flowers.

The flowers have to be gathered at night because the odour of jasmine is more powerful after dark.

It differs in the dark purple flowers being produced one on each stem.

In classical Persian literature, the narcissus is a symbol of beautiful eyes, together with other flowers that equal a beautiful face with a spring garden, such as roses for cheeks and violets for shining dark hair.

The plant requires a period of uninterrupted long, dark nights for around two months in autumn in order to develop flowers.

For women, this includes a black or dark blue skirt, with trim in magenta, or emerald green, a wrap belt tied on the hip, a blouse embroidered with flowers, a rebozo or neckerchief, with earrings and a cross of silver.

The flowers are white to pale yellow, and the fruit is a dark red berry 7 – 8 mm diameter containing numerous seeds.

The flowers open before the leaves, the female flowers being somewhat longer than the male flowers ; they are dark purple, and without petals, and are wind-pollinated.

The flowers are white to pale pink, diameter with five petals, produced singly or in pairs and appearing before the leaves in early spring.

In addition, the hybrids often produce flowers in a fuller circle rather than a " side facing " habit like the " old fashioned " pink.

The flowers are white, blue, pink or lilac and occur in several clusters toward the tip of the stems.

The flowers are small, white or pink, and borne in umbels.

The flowers are produced on a tall spike, are tubular, and vary in colour with species, from purple to pink, white, and yellow.

The flowers are erect or spreading ( not pendulous like those of the closely allied Brugmansia ), trumpet-shaped, 5 – 20 cm long and 4 – 12 cm broad at the mouth ; colors vary from white to yellow, pink, and pale purple.

Its flowers are round, ranging from light pink to white, and occurring in clusters.

* Origanum vulgare gracile (= O. tyttanthum ) is originally from Kyrgyzstan, and has glossy green leaves and pink flowers.

They bear white, pink, red, blue, or purple flowers with yellow stamens.

The flowers are white, rarely tinted yellow or pink, 2 – 4 cm diameter, and have five petals.

Rosmarinus officinalis, commonly known as Rosemary, is a woody, perennial herb with fragrant, evergreen, needle-like leaves and white, pink, purple or blue flowers, native to the Mediterranean region.

The plant flowers in spring and summer in temperate climates but the plants can be in constant bloom in warm climates ; flowers are white, pink, purple or deep blue.

* ' Majorica Pink ' – pink flowers

* ' Pinkie ' – pink flowers

* ' Roseus ' – pink flowers

Spearmint produces flowers in slender spikes, each flower pink or white, 2. 5 – 3 mm long and broad.

Both have white flowers that turn pink as they age.

Valerian ( Valeriana officinalis, Valerianaceae ) is a hardy perennial flowering plant, with heads of sweetly scented pink or white flowers which bloom in the summer months.

Banksia flowers are usually a shade of yellow, but orange, red, pink and even violet flowers also occur.

Because of their sometimes showy flowers of white, pink, scarlet or yellow color and often attractively marked leaves, many species and innumerable hybrids and cultivars are cultivated.