Flowers are so beautiful! Roses, tulips, gardenias, hollyhocks, sweet peas, phlox, verbena - the list is almost endless! My favorite flower is the Passion Flower. Although it isn't a well-known flower, I love it because it supposedly reflects the life of Jesus. It is a perfectly symmetrical flower that is so waxy, that it looks like an artificial flower. It grows on a vine that makes a great trellis cover, and can shade the hot side of the house really well. They come in quite a few colors, but my favorite is the original color scheme of purple and green that I once had growing on the west side of my little house when my family was young, and I only had three little girls, at that time. (Photo taken by Amanda)I also love gardenias and roses, along with Butterfly Orchids. Butterfly orchids grow on a tree that is so named because of its butterfly-shaped leaves. When the trees are in bloom, they are covered with beautiful flowers that resemble orchids, and smell heavenly.
As a child, my family home had a butterfly orchid tree with white blossoms growing outside my brothers' bedroom window. I would climb up and sit it the branches for hours, crafting leis from the flowers. They looked a lot like the leis you can get when you go to Hawaii. I actually did get a real Hawaiian lei, once. My high school boyfriend's sister's boyfriend (figure that out) went to Hawaii for the summer, and brought back a lei for his girlfriend and for me. It was so beautiful, and really cool of him, too.
Anyway, the world would not be nearly as beautiful without flowers in it.
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