Flowers and Gifts

by George Nava True II It’s nice to have flowers around to brighten up your day. But spending a million dollars on flowers to decorate government offices is a big waste of taxpayers’ money. That’s the consensus of the British people after learning that their hard-earned money was used to purchase expensive flowers to brighten up the [...]

by Tracy Anderson Want to have a good night’s sleep? Smell some roses in your garden and you’ll get rosier dreams. This rosy connection was discovered by researchers from the University Hospital Mannheim in Germany who said that what you smell may influence your dreams. Their new research was presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy [...]

by Tracy Anderson When archeologists opened a coffin in the famous Valley of the Kings in Egypt, they expected to find a mummy. Instead, they got flowers. Indeed, the quest for the mother of the young Egyptian King Tutankhamun or King Tut ended on a bizarre note as the 3,000-year-old coffin - the last sarcophagus at the [...]

by Tracy Anderson Air pollution is decreasing the fragrance of flowers around us and making it difficult for insects to find them. This was revealed by University of Virginia (UV) researchers who blamed cars and power plants for reducing the aroma of flowers by as much as 90 percent. This, in turn, prevents pollinating insects like bees [...]

by Rick Shawn The Jew’s Ear likes to grow on the common elder and on false acacia. Its very supple fruit-bodies are bone hard when dry, but become pliable again when moistened. Some related species which grow in Asia arc used in cooking. Tremella mesenterica is often found on the dead branches of deciduous trees, usually [...]