flowers

We can't eat them. Most are poisonous. Yet we pick them, we plant them and we enjoy looking at them. Why?

Israel allows export of 25,000 flowers from Gaza to Europe for Valentine's Day -- (AP report) That news, together with the announcement of a new agreement on a long-term 'tadiyyeh' (lull) from Gaza's HAMAS leadership, makes it seem that things are coming up roses.

I realised today that I do not understand what it takes to kill a plant. If a flower is cut and placed in water, it is still alive? It manages to stay erect (oh, stop it) for several days. Is it technically alive, or is it an illusion? Like a corpse on display in a funeral home? If any...

and they'll sing to you too! What's up with this? Flowers

Does anyone else notice that we,as people, seem to buy flowers, one of the most abundant objects on the planet, for the sole purpose to bring them home and watch them die... how very depressing. Why is this?

World's largest, stinky plant to bloom Interesting evolutionary implications...