Flower Information
on Purely Purple

The following flowers are included in this selection:
Common Name(s): Statice
Botanical Name(s): Limonium sinuatum
Other Name(s): English statice, German statice, seafoam statice
Description: Narrow stalks branch off into many slender stems, tiny strawlike flowers.
Colors: lavender,purple, white, pink,yellow
Season: All year round
Meaning: Rememberance
Zodiac: No
Flower of the Month: No
Bloom Size: 1 to 1 and a half feet long
Color Pattern: solid
Facts: A popular filler and very useful in dried floral arrangments.
Special Handling: Vase life of 10 to 12 days

Common Name(s): Chrysanthemum
Botanical Name(s): Dendranthema X Grandiflorum
Other Name(s): Daisy, mums, pompons, spider daisy, football mum
Description: Stems can contain multiple blooms or one flower.
Colors: purple, pink, white, yellow, magenta, red, bronze
Season: All year round
Meaning: Named by Carolis Linnaeus in the 17th Century. Cheerfulness, you're a wonderful friend, rest, loveliness, optimisim, abundance, wealth. Red means love. Yellow means slighted love and white means truth.
Zodiac: Libra
Flower of the Month: November
Bloom Size: varies
Color Pattern: solid
Facts: There is a festival of happiness in Japan to celebrate this flower. In Europe, Chrysanthemum is a symbol of death and are used only for funerals or on graves. Flowers are used to make a sweet drink known as chrysanthemum tea. In Asia the tea is used for many medical uses such as and aid in recovery from influenza.
Special Handling: Vase life of 1 to 2 weeks. Check water levels frequently as flowers are susceptible to bacteria.

Common Name(s): Carnation
Botanical Name(s): Dianthus Caryophyllus
Other Name(s): Carn, Chinese Pink
Description: A delicate multi-petaled single flower atop a long stem.
Colors: pink, white, red, yellow, orange, green
Season: All year round
Meaning: Fascination, admiration, pure love, my heart yearns for you, a mother's love.
Zodiac: Cancer
Flower of the Month: January
Bloom Size: 18 to 24 inches in height
Color Pattern: solid, striped, bi-color, frosted
Facts: Carnations symbolize many things. Pink carnations are said to have first appeared on Earth when a tear fell from the Virgin Mary's eye when Jesus Christ was carrying the cross. According to Christian legend, the flower was said to have sprung up from the Earth when her tear hit the ground, therefore the pink carnation represents a Mother's undying love.
Special Handling: Can last up to three weeks. Very durable.