How to use Edible Flowers

The edible flower trend is as strong as it was when it first popped up on everyone’s Pinterest feeds a year or so ago. You can now buy edible flowers relatively easily and cheaply on several websites with next day delivery should you need an emergency edible flower stock! (Which obviously, we all do sometimes of course!) During spring, growing edible flowers is a more economical alternative, and is simple for even a beginner gardener to master. To help you do more than add a touch of pizzazz to a plain-jane cake or dish, we’ve designed this pretty infographic to enable you to actually use your enchanting flowers for more than just a decoration. We have here a collection of recipes and some interesting facts to help you understand more about edible flowers and how to get the best out of them   Source: https://www....le-flower

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Helpful Guide To Buying Flowers

Buyers just accept that flower prices increase tremendously around Valentine’s and Mother’s Day. And it’s funny that only 30% of annual flower purchases are made for “no special occasion” yet women surveyed say they prefer getting flowers unexpectedly or on non-holidays. For those of us who need to know how to make our floral gifts more meaningful and surprising, this latest infographic serves as a guide. Check out this helpful guide to buying flowers if you’re in the market to buy some Valentine’s blooms:

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This post is in honor of:

• Valentines Day / February 14
• National Flower Month / March

The Confusions of Flowers in our Calendar

February Flower

With this post... I want to talk about the confusion of "Flowers" in our Calendar. 

We have National Flowers, Birth Month Flowers (which is also referred to as Flower-of-the-month), and Birthday Flowers. As you can see this can be extremely confusing but all 3 represent something different. In this article I'm going to help you understand the different between the 3. 

1) National Flowers are a symbol of the representing country. Some national flowers have cultural or religious roots that go back hundreds or even thousands of years and may or may not have been officially adopted. Others have been adopted only in recent years as a result of growing environmental consciousness. In any case, flowers are found to have assumed a significant importance not just in the lives of some persons but the whole nations and in fact, the whole world. 

• United States of America

• Rose (Rosa)

• The rose was officially adopted on November 20,1986. (Some information says October 7, 1986 with President Reagan)

You can see the complete list of them at 

• www.gone-ta-pott.com/national_flowers.html

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2)  Flower-Of-the-Month: Each month has a flower that symbolizes the month of somebody's birth. The characteristics that the flower has may be "inherited" by whomever is born in that certain month person. Every month has a flower that is sometimes referred to as a Birth Month Flower.

Flowers by month is a term describing flowers related to a recipient's birth month, and in general flowers associated with particular months of the year. It is one of a class of specialized categorizations offered by florists.

February: This month is associated with St. Valentine’s Day and red roses. However, the flower for the month is Violet. The flower symbolises faithfulness, humility and chastity. Gifting violets in the Victorian era conveyed the message 'I’ll always be true’. The flower is found in shades of blue, mauve as well as yellow and cream. One must remember that an older English name for the plant is "heartease."

You can see complete list here

• www.gone-ta-pott.com/flower_of_the_month.html

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3)  Birthday Flowers: "Birthday Flowers" are ascribed by tradition for those born on any given date in the year in Europe and the west. Not all are precisely flowers, however. A few examples for February is listed below. 

February

  1 - sweetpea

  2 - yellow rose

  3 - saffron

  4 - pansy

  5 - marsh mallow

  6 - mistletoe

  7 - linden

  8 - pineapple flower

  9 - leek

10 - Common hawthorn

11 - cypress

12 - dewplant

13 - clematis

14 - gillyflower

15 - conium

You can see complete list at: http://www.gone-ta-pott.com/birthday-flowers.html

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We also have a National Flower Day which is celebrated on March 21

Flower Basket Day: January 4

Heads Up! January 4th is Flower Basket Day so those of you who have'nt shopped for your baskets yet; this is your reminder to get started now.  Once you get your basket you need to decide what type of flower your going to put in it. Then you decide who your giving it to.

Now let's talk about this holiday:
The way I understand it, the idea is to build a basket with a flower inside which is made from the heart. Sometimes other things are placed in the basket as well but the focus is on the flower and the basket itself.

When I placed a questionare about this holiday, my readers who celebrate it said they like to place other things inside the basket that related to the flower. For instance: If it's an african violet you could place a small tub of african violet food with it. If it's a houseplant you could place a hand shovel with it.

I read on the Internet that some people take a different approach and send a basket of flower shaped cookies. You could even add a flower shaped cookie cutter to the basket. Come to think of it... what a great housewarming gift this would make for those moving in a new home.

Personally.... I always gave my Mother a Christmas Cactus the first week of Christmas because they bloom in December and frankly she collected them. LOL! The house was always full of blooming cactus when I was growing up. Anyway, a Christmas cactus would be a fine basket gift too. There always an easy plant to take care of.

Now I'm not sure about the origin of this holiday at all. There's very little information to find at all. At first glance I figured a garden center or a flower shop must of started it to boost sales but I just couldn't find any background on the subject. I think what may of been a sales promotion could of turned out to be a homemade gift instead. My readers tell me this is when they like to divide their houseplants and basket up the babies to share. :)

One of my favorite ideas is to share herb plants. It seems to be popular to give a mixed basket of herbs. Now I think this is a fantastic idea. Especially since it's so hard to get nice herbs in the winter and a basket of herb plants may be all someone needs to have their own window seal herb garden. One can never have enough fresh herbs if you ask me.

Start a new December Tradition:
I think traditions are wonderful and giving a flower basket is a good way to gift a friend and put some Christmas cheer in someones home. I think the kids would have fun fixing baskets too. Have fun with this one ya'll. If you have any neat ideas please do share with our readers.

There's even Flower Basket Day Greeting you can send on January 4th too.