Flower Gardening Yeah!
The Gift Of Flowers Can Change A Life
We can compare the heart’s good cheer to a floral offering. A bright bouquet can change the flow of the rest of the day. Flowers are appropriate gifts to persons of all ages and in any conceivable circumstance. So the heart’s good cheer and deeds of kindness are always acceptable to children and youth, to busy men and women, to the aged, and to a world of invalids.
Do you remember a time when you picked a neighbor’s flower or even a pretty weed from along the roadside and proudly took it home to your mother just to?
Holidays and events such as Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Administrative Professionals’ Day, Mothers’ Day, All Souls Day, Advent, Easter, weddings and funerals give us an excuse to give the gift of flowers. We buy and plant flowers for our own personal enjoyment and to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, thank-you’s and get-well wishes.
Flowers also play a large part in the decor of special events and meetings. Centerpieces, entry ways, reception tables, bridal bouquets, wedding chuppahs, churches, horse and dog shows, and stage sets are only a few examples of how flowers are used in the business and social event arenas. Even the horse winning the Kentucky Derby is adorned with roses.
Flowers have various different meanings in different cultures. Poppies are used to remember fallen soldiers only in Great Britain and the Commonwealth countries. Col. John McCrae of Canada wrote the poem, "In Flander’s Field." It describes blowing red fields of poppies among the battleground of the fallen.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars conducted its first poppy distribution before Memorial Day in 1922. In 1924, disabled veterans at the Buddy Poppy factory in Pittsburgh assembled the first VFW Buddy Poppies. Since then, the VFW’s Buddy Poppy program has raised millions of dollars in support of veterans’ welfare and the well being of their dependents. VFW Buddy Poppies are assembled by disabled and needy veterans who are paid for their work to provide them with some form of financial assistance.
The minimal cost of Buddy Poppies to VFW units provides compensation to the veterans who assemble the poppies, provides financial assistance in maintaining state and national veterans’ rehabilitation and service programs and partially supports the VFW National Home for orphans and widows of our nation’s veterans.
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June 26 2008 09:47 pm | Garden