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Camellia
- Sacramento,
California is nicknamed the Camellia City.
- The
Camellia is the state flower of Alabama.
- The Camellia
Bowl was a post-season college football game under the auspices of
the NCAA.
- The Lady of
the Camellias is named for the Camellia.
- Augusta
National Golf Club's 10th hole is named Camellia.
- Rabindranath
Tagore wrote a poem entitled "Camellia" about the camellia.
- In the book To
Kill a Mockingbird, Jem destroys Mrs. Dubose's camellia bushes out of
anger due to some insensitive comments she had made about his family.
Later on in the book, Jem is given a camellia bud by the dying Mrs.
Dubose.
- Camellia
buds are an iconic symbol for the Chanel fashion
house's haute couture; a tradition started by Coco
Chanel herself.
- Camellias
have a major significance in the Akira Kurosawa film Sanjuro.
- White camellias became a symbol of New Zealand women's right to vote and feature on the country's ten-dollar note.
In
folklore, cornflowers were worn by young men in love; if the flower faded too
quickly, it was taken as a sign that the man's love was not returned.
The narcissus is perceived in the West as a
symbol of vanity, in the East as a symbol of wealth and good fortune.
The narcissus is a national flower symbolising the new
year or Newroz in the Kurdish culture.
In ancient China, a legend about a poor but good
man holds he was brought many cups of gold and wealth by this flower. Since the
flower blooms in early spring, it has also become a symbol of Chinese New
Year. Narcissus bulb carving and cultivation is even an art akin to Japanese
bonsai. If the narcissus blooms on Chinese New Year, it is said to bring extra
wealth and good fortune throughout the year. Its sweet fragrances are highly
revered in Chinese culture.
In classical Persian literature, the narcissus is
a symbol of beautiful eyes, together with other flowers that equal a beautiful
face with a spring garden, such as roses for cheeks and violets for shining
dark hair.
Freesia is a genus of
around 16 species of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, native to the eastern side of
southern Africa, from Kenya down to South Africa,most species
being found in Cape Province. Species of the former genus Anomatheca are now included
in Freesia.
Gardenia is a genus of
142 species of flowering plants in the coffee family, Rubiaceae,
native to the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa,
southern Asia, Australasia and Oceania.
It is believed that roses were grown in all the early
civilisations of temperate latitudes from at least 5000 years ago. They are
known to have been grown in ancient Babylon.Paintings of roses have been
discovered in Egyptian pyramid tombs from the 14th century BC.Records exist of
them being grown in Chinese gardens and Greek gardens from
at least 500 BC.
Most of the plants grown in these early gardens are
likely to have been species collected from the wild. However there were large
numbers of selected varieties being grown from early times; for instance
numerous selections or cultivars of the China rose were in
cultivation in China in the first millennium AD.
If
your wedding dresses are mermaid with sexy v-neck, I suggest you choose purple cornflowers,
if is princess or A-line wedding dresses with elegant style, freesia, gardenias, garden roses can all
be OK, actually, garden roses easily suit many styles wedding dresses.
