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

The flowers are pale purple, and star-shaped with six petals, 1 – 2 cm wide, and produced in a dense inflorescence of 10-30 together ; before opening, the inflorescence is surrounded by a papery bract.

The flowers are creamy-white, 2 – 3 mm diameter, produced in dense compound umbels.

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

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

* 1991: Niijima Floats, six-foot spheres of intricate color inspired by Japanese glass fishing floats from the island of NiijimaNiijima Chihuly. com from Chihuly's website * 1992: Chandeliers, starting modestly but by the middle of the decade involving a ton of glass orbs and shapes that in some works look like flowers, others like breasts, and still others like snakes Chihuly has also produced a sizable volume of " Irish cylinders ", photo from lakeview-museum. orgwhich are more modest in conception than his blown glass works.

Also gaining popularity is the concept of " Green Gardening " which involves growing plants using organic fertilizers and pesticides so that the gardening process-or the flowers and fruits produced thereby-doesn't adversely affect the environment or people's health in any manner.

The ancients had a variety of ideas about heredity: Theophrastus proposed that male flowers caused female flowers to ripen ; Hippocrates speculated that " seeds " were produced by various body parts and transmitted to offspring at the time of conception ; and Aristotle thought that male and female semen mixed at conception.

The flowers are white to purple and produced in false whorls called verticillasters.

The flowers are purple, 3 – 4 mm long, produced in erect spikes.

The flowers are purple, long, with a four-lobed corolla about diameter ; they are produced in whorls ( verticillasters ) around the stem, forming thick, blunt spikes.

The flowers are produced in small capitulae 2 – 4 mm diameter, each capitulum containing up to 40 yellow or greenish-yellow florets.

The small wind-pollinated flowers are produced in a branched arching to pendulous inflorescence long.

The flowers are small, cream or white, produced in erect racemes 6 – 15 cm long in late summer and early autumn.

The flowers are catkins, produced in spring.

In 1905, six hundred tons of flowers were harvested while in the 1940s, five thousand tons were produced annually.

The flowers are bell-shaped, greenish-white to yellowish, long, with six tepals partially fused together at the base ; they are produced singly or in clusters of 2 – 3 in the junctions of the branchlets.

Nectar, in its most common modern use, refers to the sugar-rich liquid produced by the flowers of plants in order to attract pollinating animals.

The flowers are produced in early spring before the leaves ; they are solitary or paired, 2. 5 – 3 cm diameter, pink, with five petals.

Then, he produced two lady's bonnets decorated with flowers ; one for winter, the other for summer.

The flowers are produced in terminal panicles long ; each flower is small and white with five petals long, with a mild, sweet odor suggestive of lily of the valley.

The flowers are produced on short axillary cymes 4 – 8 cm long.

The flowers are in diameter, with five white to pinkish petals ; they are produced singly or in pairs in early spring before the leaves.

The flowers are produced in clusters directly on the trunk and older branches ; they are small, diameter, with pink calyx.