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.

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 inflorescence is crowded with quite large, radial symmetrical flowers, which face upwards.

Prior for it seems quite probable that the shape of the flowers suggested the idea of a glove, and that associated with the name of the botanist Fuchs, who first gave it a botanical name, may have been easily corrupted into foxglove.

Male and female flowers must be open simultaneously for pollination to occur, hence successful pollination is quite rare and some species may be endangered.

The plant's flowers grow on a stem above that stem's leaves, and tend to be purple and quite small in comparison to the leaves.

On a day-to-day basis, offerings may be quite simple indeed: flowers, candles, incense, spilling some of the drink from a cup before drinking.

They are quite popular for xeriscaping as many have showy flowers.

' Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!

He was known to be quite entertaining, often making himself invisible, drinking water from the petals of poisonous flowers, snatching birds in flight from the sky, as well as wilting flowers simply by pointing in their direction.

A shrubbery was a collection of hardy shrubs, quite distinct from a flower garden, which was a cutting garden to supply flowers in the house.

Celia Fiennes, who in 1697 proceeded out of London along the Dover Road, wrote in her diary of stopping at " Shuttershill, on top of which hill you see a vast prospect ... some lands clothed with trees, others with grass and flowers, gardens, orchards, with all sorts of herbage and tillage, with severall little towns all by the river, Erith, Leigh, Woolwich etc., quite up to London, Greenwich, Deptford, Black Wall, the Thames twisting and turning it self up and down bearing severall vessells and men of warre on it ".

A few Impatiens species have flowers quite intermediate between those two basic types.

Both selenite crystals and gypsum flowers sometimes form quite densely in acicular mats or nets ; and can be quite brittle and fragile.

Selenite crystals that exhibit in either reticular or acicular habits, satin spar, in general ( as fibrous crystals are thin and narrow ), desert roses that are thinly bladed, and gypsum flowers, particularly acicular gypsum flowers, can be quite brittle and easily broken.

Caught unaware of the situation, Marcus is quite pleased that he received flowers from Ivanova stating, " I guess there's hope for us after all.

At the Goblin Fair in the forest of Tantrevalles, Melancthe is entranced by four beautiful flowers she has bought, which evoke emotions she can't quite identify.

" If Congress desires to continue a garden for the purpose of obtaining flowers for its members and for growing shrubs to disseminate throughout the country, both of these purposes can be subserved quite as well by glass houses and gardens in other accessible locations.

They are quite easy to grow, producing a profusion of fluffy flowers all season long.

Overall, the climate was dry, similar to a savanna but, since there were no angiosperms ( grasses, flowers, and some trees ), the flora was quite different.

The flowers are quite large and attractive with white, green, greenish yellow or cream colors.

The details of the flowers are also quite different in the two paintings, with those in the Louvre painting being botanically accurate, and those in the London painting being fanciful creations.

The adult butterflies have a quite short proboscis and the flowers of the blackberry being quite shallow provide an excellent nectar source.