🌸🌾🍀🍁 What Is The National Floral Emblem For Your Nation?🌷🌹🌺

[♥ Lily ♥]

England ~ Red Rose

http://i.picasion.com/resize85/536c6f5867831ea85a8bc47bb516e607.jpg
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/3b5a5f716c2cc5bf2444d0c2c952a24d.jpg
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/0fb98145b5bfa0ee2b086bcafc9215c9.jpg
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/806ecf34f8ee7132bb2b6a92842fd3e5.jpghttp://i.picasion.com/resize85/b10d5c6ad2cfa91141dcb1843d849c49.jpg
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/445bd031114d8f6799308e984bb45bc6.jpg
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/876ea1dfec771e200ba5b14b8bdbd4ca.jpg
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/dfba6f652a22279231a0b0df3b77d316.jpg
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/4abf37605c1ab7e6a87f4d0a70e16b46.png
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/8d08eae586baf8144d1719aa667d8b2f.jpg
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/61a2facb50209d932c9d5d110f4d398b.png
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/232cbdfde532083850f85c35c782cbdf.jpg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48CAIsZGumI

Scotland ~ Bluebell

http://i.picasion.com/resize85/2a4ed8b2ac12461c2456a15d7bf1d968.jpg
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/3536c4e07539e9332aeced1399705914.jpg
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/5de0a3958311dd92f136ce79adcb87aa.jpg
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/a854b9eeceb9fb09f6fda864f93372fc.jpg
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/6b82a1237877b1469157c6d1fb2ea4a8.jpg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXBZjb9JxiY

[♥ Lily ♥]

Wales ~ Daffodil

http://i.picasion.com/resize85/de7236561155207977d441b6f83bd427.jpg
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/0af25f5090c9203b761f430082bf6e4b.jpg
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/7cd4e34b71b06a075c5e93a8e6a7db0e.jpg
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/88cbfa1e188ac6d74f332af917e73847.jpg
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/33a5d9a1c978eff84d09f23342803f6f.jpg
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/94f74486625f6eed2adeb48e9c0ce805.jpg
http://www.welshgifts.co.uk/images/_lib/cymru-welsh-dragon-daffodil-embroidered-badge-9003481-0-1414225513000.jpg
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/4ca2fad8a54fe7e775a90d6a2748131c.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dGdSTQTm4c

Éire ~ Shamrock

http://i.picasion.com/resize85/5c64962f4224ccac37e8bd70b695f965.jpg
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/599991f74aeadf2f76261bb3094a8a6a.jpg
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/b9a432d9dfbf7c1c41ff72b2ee6c0697.jpg
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/489d8e7f1e83b07360b7ac89efd86906.jpg
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/e3dcc7e2630831b56eb925d207e5c9be.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN37lIS7gzk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So1qiyLaypk

[Mortimer]

Sorry Lily I dont know what the national flower for Austria is.

[Desperado]

http://www.programmanatura.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/MARGHERITA.jpg

[Kazimiera]

Sorry Lily I dont know what the national flower for Austria is.

It is the Edelweiss.

http://www.flowermeaning.com/flower-pics/Edelweiss-Meaning.jpg

http://fbmanagenessis.gr/sites/default/files/product/taxonomy/ingredient/edelweiss.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/86/3b/66/863b66a5f300a402809121dc1bc7c8c5.jpg

[Kazimiera]

National Flower

The King Protea

https://tvg-blog.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2014/12/King-protea-SAs-national-flower.jpg


National Tree

Real Yellowwood

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/7c/17/d6/7c17d6f16e9d7899eb96bd58e56af1a1.jpg


National Animal

Springbok

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/5e/b5/e2/5eb5e22428f9b4b8f90244604d2d497d.jpg


National Bird

Blue Crane

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/b4/81/d3/b481d36f34f6176a687614f42ed5efca.jpg


National Fish

Galjoen

http://www.south-africa-tours-and-travel.com/images/galjoen-schalk-viljoen-southafricannationalsymbols.jpg

[EL_BARBARO]

Sorry Lily I dont know what the national flower for Austria is.


Edelweiss vielleicht?

[EL_BARBARO]

Spain


https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6d/dd/60/6ddd60478a0ea8318e1a84ffd2d2c783.jpg


http://plantasyjardin.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Clavel-la-flor-nacional-de-Espana-copia.jpg

The Carnation

[frankhammer]

New Zealand - Kowhai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dwhai

Tbh, I didn't know this until today. If you asked a New Zealander, they'd more likely think and say Silver Fern https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyathea_dealbata
Some in the North Island might think of the Pohutukawa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrosideros_excelsa

Bit of a crap shoot really.

I think of the English Rose myself.

Kowhai and Kowhai and native bird, Tui

http://i.imgur.com/fDUJ9ra.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/iDpgqg8.jpg

Pohutukawa aka NZ's christmas tree as it always flowers at christmas, summertime NZ

http://i.imgur.com/XMpWkeN.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/G4x2rQS.jpg

[EL_BARBARO]

Flower of Galicia, Spain




https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7306/9577579189_206a037404_b.jpg


http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ld5eTDUMKeA/TyBcnps5pcI/AAAAAAAAA5Q/BTesx6nxCVA/s640/3.jpg

The Camellia

[♥ Lily ♥]

Correction: oops! The national flower of Scotland is actually a thistle, rather than a bluebell... but a bluebell can still be considered as a floral symbol for Scotland. The red Tudor Rose applies as a national symbol to England, daffodils for Wales, and shamrock is an official symbol for Éire that people display a lot on St. Patrick's day.


Each of the four countries of the United Kingdom has a traditional floral emblem.

England - officially the Tudor rose or unofficially the red rose and English Oak.
Northern Ireland – the flax, orange lily, or shamrock
Scotland – the Scotch thistle, Scottish bluebell (harebell) or heather
Wales - the daffodil, leek or sessile oak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floral_emblem


I always associate Scotland with bluebells though, (one of my favourite flowers in England too, as I loved picking and collecting blueish-lilac coloured bluebells, white-coloured bluebells, and soft pink-coloured bluebells on my way to school as a child. My mum would tell me not to pick the bluebells, but I couldn't resist collecting some on my way to school in Kent. I'd also see large fields full of bluebells when I lived in Hampshire for a while too.... I love bluebells.)

http://www.scotclans.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scottish-thistle.jpg
A thistle flower.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81dscIbjCoL._SX355_.jpg
http://www.historic-uk.com/assets/PropertyImages/Thistle.jpg?1390900231
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4136/4917919154_74e84a09a1_b.jpg
http://www.ashdownforest.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Bluebell-Railway-Sm-Engine-Ob-Car.jpg
Bluebell railway line steam trains in Sussex, Southern England.

[♥ Lily ♥]

I wonder if the national flower of The Netherlands are tulips by any chance? (Because I always associate Amsterdam with colourful tulips!) I love the elegant long stems on tulips and find them uplifting and happy flowers, like daffodils makes me smile too.

http://clv.h-cdn.co/assets/15/29/768x511/gallery-1437067578-154393612.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Tulip_-_floriade_canberra.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tT65wUb1zJ8/hqdefault.jpg
http://images.whiteflowerfarm.com/232721a.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EnnurXLooZw/maxresdefault.jpg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNPT3JRNJpE

[Hithaeglir]

Laurus Nobilis

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Bay_leaf_pair443.jpg/220px-Bay_leaf_pair443.jpg

Cyclamen graecum

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Cyclamen_graecum03.jpg/220px-Cyclamen_graecum03.jpg

Violet

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTTcv1VxV2Ujo-qanodwX8YjrYmWNcJbn7lEc4JrsS2KBdJ3PFG

Acanthus mollis

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Acanthaceae_-_Acanthus_mollis_%282%29.JPG/220px-Acanthaceae_-_Acanthus_mollis_%282%29.JPG

[♥ Lily ♥]

An interesting list of floral emblems for various countries around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floral_emblem

[Ylla]

Flower of Albania is the Poppy. ����


http://www.ob1.com/iae/Schools/Colegio/flower4.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BxJ0UrnGOUE/UK6SH6cdsII/AAAAAAAAAJ8/IZ-IrSNk468/s1600/Poppy-Wedding-Flowers.jpeg

[Petalpusher]

I want to push your petals, all of you.

Lys.

[Kazimiera]

Flower of Albania is the Poppy. ����

http://www.ob1.com/iae/Schools/Colegio/flower4.jpg

This isn't a poppy. I can't remember exactly what they are called, but a poppy this is not.

This is a poppy...

https://blog.fantasticgardeners.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/National-flower-of-Albania-poppy.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/193/493442783_cabaf0264f.jpg

http://www.123countries.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/National-Flower-Of-Belgium-Red-Poppy.jpg

[alnortedelsur]

The national flower of Venezuela is the Orquidea:

http://www.ivenezuela.travel/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/orquidea_flor_nacional_de_venezuela.jpg

https://www.hogarmania.com/archivos/201105/orquidea-mariposa-xl-668x400x80xX.jpg

And the national tree, is a tree of yellow flowers called Araguaney:

http://www.lapatilla.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/IMG-20150225-WA0010-980x588.jpg?x71671

http://www.notiminuto.com/site/assets/files/101785/ara2.png

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/c8/bb/60/c8bb6090d00cc45d123ae042967abe71.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BLZk8dTJ-yk/VWiurlpeDxI/AAAAAAADhS0/LxHHiOSBncI/w600-h378/Reinita-y-Araguaney.jpg

http://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/s480x480/e35/12729512_765029930294316_974206752_n.jpg?ig_cache_ key=MTE5NjQzMjMyNTc0MTg2NDQxNg%3D%3D.2

[Kazimiera]

Pohutukawa aka NZ's christmas tree as it always flowers at christmas, summertime NZ

http://i.imgur.com/XMpWkeN.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/G4x2rQS.jpg

We have these here too. They must have been transported here from NZ. The bees love them.

[Insuperable]

Iris Croatica. It is an endemic flower.
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/51267052.jpg
https://g2.img-dpreview.com/5B1272C70E2544B79D92C130F594CECD.jpg

[alnortedelsur]

Iris Croatica. It is an endemic flower.
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/51267052.jpg
https://g2.img-dpreview.com/5B1272C70E2544B79D92C130F594CECD.jpg

It looks a lot like the Venezuelan Orquideas.

I am quite surprised, because Venezuela is a tropical country.

[Era]

This isn't a poppy. I can't remember exactly what they are called, but a poppy this is not.



http://www.ob1.com/iae/Schools/Colegio/flower4.jpg



That is a red lily. This is how we call it in Albanian too, zambak i kuq, very popular there/

https://www.google.com/search?q=red+lily&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjv6ZWq_pzTAhXIxVQKHbJ8DXM4ChD8BQgGKAE&biw=1280&bih=875#spf=1

[Ylla]

This isn't a poppy. I can't remember exactly what they are called, but a poppy this is not.

This is a poppy...


Yes Kaz youre quite right, was thinking the same.

[Ilma]

No flower for Normandy, this is way too sentimental. We are baddass, we have leopards :


http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/normandie/sites/regions_france3/files/styles/asset_list_medium/public/assets/images/2014/11/26/drapeau_deux_leopards.jpg?itok=0XDUL_B_

When Normandy was cut in two half by french governement, until 2016, the lower had for emblem this which is a piece of drakkar meaning "we lack our other part which is Upper Normandy" :


http://idata.over-blog.com/3/21/27/08/Logo_region_basse_normandie.png

While Upper Normandy had this one which is one leopard (the other one is absent to represent the lower Normandy separated) and I guess the water represents our Seine river or the sea.


http://idata.over-blog.com/3/21/27/08//logo_region_web.jpg

Nowadays we also have non official flags we recognize though like the Saint-Olaf flag of Normandy (for me the best is the combined original flag with this one) or also that drakkar with the N of Normandy which is the separatist movement emblem.


http://www.le-comptoir-des-normandies.fr/uploads/Medias/587/26/G_pim_47_1305100668.png

http://www.histoire-normandie.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/mouvement_normand.jpg

[Kazimiera]

Yes Kaz youre quite right, was thinking the same.

For a second I was wondering if you were blind, but I didn't want to say anything because that would be rude. :D

[Ylla]

For a second I was wondering if you were blind, but I didn't want to say anything because that would be rude. :D

:lol:

[Voskos]

no idea.

[Ilma]

no idea.

National flower for Greece seems to be the Violet :

http://eskipaper.com/images/violet-flower-1.jpg

[Kazimiera]

National flower for Greece seems to be the Violet :

http://eskipaper.com/images/violet-flower-1.jpg

This isn't a violet. What you have posted is a violet-coloured flower.

The Greek flower is the Viola odorata. It is a violet plant and its flowers are also violet-coloured. I put this down to a case of "lost in translation". :D

http://www.chilternseeds.co.uk/images/products/zoom/img_2798_6930.jpg

Okay. I'm going to go away now before you guys gang up on me and give me violet eyes. :hiding:

[Ülev]

Flower of Albania is the Poppy. ����

(...)


This isn't a poppy. I can't remember exactly what they are called, but a poppy this is not.

This is a poppy...

https://blog.fantasticgardeners.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/National-flower-of-Albania-poppy.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/193/493442783_cabaf0264f.jpg

http://www.123countries.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/National-Flower-Of-Belgium-Red-Poppy.jpg

So let's cultivate Polish-Albanian friendship!!!



Corn Poppy (Papaver Rhoeas) or Red Poppy, a flower with vivid red four petals, most commonly with a black spot at their base. is the national flower of Poland. It is a variable annual plant in the northern hemisphere and generally flowers in late spring. During and after World War I, fields that had been disturbed by battle bloomed with Corn Poppies, and the flower has become a symbol of that war.

more here: http://culture.polishsite.us/articles/art163fr.htm


Rethel! - say hello to Albanian members

[EL_BARBARO]

Flower of Euskadi, Spain



http://www.elcorreo.com/noticias/201604/28/media/cortadas/bandera-ikurrina--575x323.jpg

http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1pcegOmH31rs8r2xo1_500.jpg
Eguzkilore

[UkrainianGirl]

Lily...you sure you don't want to be Red Rose now instead of Lily? Will match your hearts too :)

[Neon Knight]

Can't say I've ever associated bluebells with Scotland, Lily. This kind of bells more like:

https://cdn4.masterofmalt.com/whiskies/p-2813/bells/bells-extra-special-227cl-whisky.jpg?ss=2.0

[Kazimiera]

...

Wow. This is the first time I have seen or heard of such a flower. Beautiful!

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/2c/93/85/2c93855d8a5def9edd98888147b00aeb.jpg

[Dick]

Can't say I've ever associated bluebells with Scotland

What about blueballs?

[Autrigón]

Flower of Jamaica

http://elfanzine.tv/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/marihuana-2.jpg

[Oneeye]

Sorry Lily I dont know what the national flower for Austria is.

EDELWEISS. HAVEN'T YOU SEEN SOUND OF MUSIC

[Oneeye]

Correction: oops! The national flower of Scotland is actually a thistle, rather than a bluebell... but a bluebell can still be considered as a floral symbol for Scotland. The red Tudor Rose applies as a national symbol to England, daffodils for Wales, and shamrock is an official symbol for Éire that people display a lot on St. Patrick's day.



I always associate Scotland with bluebells though, (one of my favourite flowers in England too, as I loved picking and collecting blueish-lilac coloured bluebells, white-coloured bluebells, and soft pink-coloured bluebells on my way to school as a child. My mum would tell me not to pick the bluebells, but I couldn't resist collecting some on my way to school in Kent. I'd also see large fields full of bluebells when I lived in Hampshire for a while too.... I love bluebells.)

http://www.scotclans.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scottish-thistle.jpg
A thistle flower.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81dscIbjCoL._SX355_.jpg
http://www.historic-uk.com/assets/PropertyImages/Thistle.jpg?1390900231
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4136/4917919154_74e84a09a1_b.jpg
http://www.ashdownforest.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Bluebell-Railway-Sm-Engine-Ob-Car.jpg
Bluebell railway line steam trains in Sussex, Southern England.



What's with the Scots and Irish picking weeds to represent them?

[Oneeye]

Btw, the USA also chose the rose.

[Guru]

Flower of Jamaica

http://elfanzine.tv/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/marihuana-2.jpg

It's international tbh :rolleyes:

[EL_BARBARO]

Spain


https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6d/dd/60/6ddd60478a0ea8318e1a84ffd2d2c783.jpg


http://plantasyjardin.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Clavel-la-flor-nacional-de-Espana-copia.jpg

The Carnation



Spain[edit]

The national flower of Spain is the carnation (clavel).
Spain – Carnation
The national flower of Spain is considered to be the carnation (Spanish: clavel). Essentially it is associated with Spanish folklore, especially in southern Spain, or Andalusia.

In Spain and Hispanic America it symbolises passion, and it is a very common gesture to hold the clavel between one's teeth. In the Spanish language of flowers represents caprice, passion and desire.


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Red_Carnation_NGM_XXXI_p507.jpg

Red Carnation (clavel rojo)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floral_emblem

[Shelby]

Poppy flower ofcoursee

[Guru]

Poppy flower ofcoursee

What is so obvious in that :confused:

[Shelby]

What is so obvious in that :confused:

Bc they grew here bc of all the blood in the dirt bc poppy stands for ww1 bc ww was in belgium twice bc belgium bc poppy

[EL_BARBARO]

Wow. This is the first time I have seen or heard of such a flower. Beautiful!

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/2c/93/85/2c93855d8a5def9edd98888147b00aeb.jpg


It's rare and very beautiful, yes...

[Guru]

Bc they grew here bc of all the blood in the dirt bc poppy stands for ww1 bc ww was in belgium twice bc belgium bc poppy

Definitely obvious :rolleyes: for me the most obvious connotation with a poppy is opium

[EL_BARBARO]

We call thistle flower --Scotland national flower-- "cardo borriquero". You can find plenty of them down here. Apart from beautiful, its core or heart --once peeled-- is eatable and delicious. A good source of food when one is wandering in a experience of survival.

Also eatable are the hearts of cores of palmito --mediterranean small palm--, whose hearts are bigger and tasting excellent.


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Onopordum_acanthium_002.JPG
Cardo borriquero

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AiJkeHpU3Ak/VhRNYsuB6nI/AAAAAAAAXC8/kJW16h3BlYc/s1600/_MG_8441xm.jpg
Palmito


http://www.eladerezo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/palmitos-el-corazon-de-la-palmera.jpg
Palmito's heart

[Shelby]

Definitely obvious :rolleyes: for me the most obvious connotation with a poppy is opium

Well also haha

[♥ Lily ♥]

Lily...you sure you don't want to be Red Rose now instead of Lily? Will match your hearts too :)

I like roses, but I like lilies even more as they're a symbol of tranquility and peace (which is why lilies are often seen during funerals.)

[♥ Lily ♥]

Can't say I've ever associated bluebells with Scotland, Lily. This kind of bells more like:

https://cdn4.masterofmalt.com/whiskies/p-2813/bells/bells-extra-special-227cl-whisky.jpg?ss=2.0

:lmao

[♥ Lily ♥]

Flower of Jamaica

http://elfanzine.tv/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/marihuana-2.jpg

:cool:

(Actually that plant is used by a lot of people internationally in cannabis tea, smoked, or vaped, etc, and I think it's legalised in The Netherlands, (although I've never been a fan of it myself.) It has alleged medicinal properties and some people prefer to have 'medical marijuana' prescribed to them by doctors, instead of being prescribed with the more addictive and stronger opiate prescription painkillers.)

I remember there used to be some cafes in London's popular Camden Town area where people could request cannabis tea and try cannabis cake, (not sure if those places are still there,) and people can buy cannabis-flavoured lollipops which are on public display in stores and markets there too.

[♥ Lily ♥]

Definitely obvious :rolleyes: for me the most obvious connotation with a poppy is opium

Opium is very valuable in medicine and produces a calming and tranquil relief for people who are in severe pain.

[Guru]

Opium is very valuable in medicine and produces a calming and tranquil relief for people who are in severe pain.

Not only ;)

btw I never tried ofc

[UkrainianGirl]

I like roses, but I like lilies even more as they're a symbol of tranquility and peace (which is why lilies are often seen during funerals.)

I agree with you. I also like lilies more than roses. :)

[♥ Lily ♥]

We call thistle flower --Scotland national flower-- "cardo borriquero". You can find plenty of them down here. Apart from beautiful, its core or heart --once peeled-- is eatable and delicious. A good source of food when one is wandering in a experience of survival.


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Onopordum_acanthium_002.JPG
Cardo borriquero

Goldfinches love eating thistle seeds, and so having some thistles planted in a back garden is a good way to naturally attract these beautiful birds to peoples gardens, or/and also hanging-up very small and fine black nyjer seeds (which are actually native to Ethiopia) in specialist goldfinch feeders which goldfinches go crazy over and squabble a lot over it as it's their favourite seeds. (I had a whole charm of over 22 juvenile goldfinches visiting and eating the oil-rich nyjer seeds that I hung out in lots of feeders for them last summer which are very nutritious for them too according to ornithologists,) and goldfinches and other birds also love eating sunflower hearts.

[Mazik]

We don't have a national flower. But we have regional flowers. In my region it's the king Karl's spire (Pedicularis sceptrum-carolinum).

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kKdbR3Appho/U-C3dQIdRgI/AAAAAAAAAv4/3EFgwgPqAqA/s1600/kung+karls+spira.JPG

[♥ Lily ♥]

I agree with you. I also like lilies more than roses. :)

There's some interesting varieties of lilies too... I think they're very serene-looking flowers. I also love cherry blossom, wisteria, bonsai trees, tiger-lilies, orchids... there's just loads of interesting varieties of flowers and plants, and many have medicinal properties too. We have the Columbia Rd Flower Market in East London and I've found edible flowers being shown in some of the flower markets in London too.

White lilies are often seen at funerals as a symbol of peace.

https://memorialhaven.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/lily-2.jpghttp://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/wjon.com/files/2014/06/lily_Kokako.jpg?w=300&h=200&zc=1&s=0&a=t&q=89
https://www.everplans.com/sites/default/files/blog-images/lilies-750_0.jpg

Waterlilies (which can be seen inside Kew Botanic Gardens (a must-visit place you have to see if you visit Greater London!) which holds the worlds largest collection of living plants from around the globe, along with the world's largest library of drawings and books on plants and flowers, and is over 250 years old with palatial architectures and hand-blown glass conservatories with spiral wrought-iron staircases, tree-bridge walks, and is maintained by over 650 botanists. (If you also love flowers and plants, then you'll love visiting Kew Gardens.)

http://images.wisegeek.com/pink-water-lilies.jpg

You may also like the interesting 400 year old Chelsea Physic Gardens in West London, and also the annual Chelsea Flower Show held each May in London - which is the world's largest floral show of imaginative designer gardens and interesting floral displays created by florists and landscape gardeners that celebrities and royalty from Monaco and the UK, etc, like to attend the show too... it's like the floral equivalent of a designer catwalk show!)

Here's a tribute video I made of Kew Gardens - it's nice to visit and see it during the different seasons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-dzbhtEiuw

An Irish Floating Garden design floating up above the trees was seen at the annual fashionable and stylish Chelsea Flower Show in London. (There was a creative garden design that was shaped like an Egyptian pyramid too that people could walk through on display there a few years ago.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwRuH2LcHeQ

The world's smallest lily was saved from extinction at London's Kew Gardens... it's so cute: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10569640/Worlds-smallest-water-lily-stolen-from-Kew-Gardens.html
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02789/Kew-Nymphaea-Therm_2789536b.jpg

I often think of the famous French painter Claude Monet's infamous waterlily paintings and I think of France whenever I see serene waterlilies on a lake. (A lily is the French national flower.)
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/191664e188d3b34aaf1322d42e23f0f5.png
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/5d5f926f0c63ddcf60dd5268deaac695.jpg

Lily-of-the-valley is a sweetly-scented and highly poisonous plant (like foxgloves and deadly nightshade are both poisonous and can kill people, so witch-doctors used to sometimes use it sometimes to poison their enemies with in medieval times.) Lily-of-the-valley is a nice scent in fragrances.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Convallaria_majalis_0002.JPG/440px-Convallaria_majalis_0002.JPG

Step into the world's most dangerous garden in England .... if you dare: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/step-inside-worlds-most-dangerous-garden-if-you-dare-180952635/

(You may also like the Eden Project and the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall.)

https://thumbs-media.smithsonianmag.com/filer/f7/7c/f77cd891-436b-4e52-b7e6-0951783d3a06/42-57758996.jpg__1072x0_q85_upscale.jpg

[UkrainianGirl]

There's some interesting varieties of lilies too... they're very elegant and serene flowers.

... such as white lilies that are often seen at funerals as a symbol of peace.

https://memorialhaven.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/lily-2.jpg
http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/wjon.com/files/2014/06/lily_Kokako.jpg?w=300&h=200&zc=1&s=0&a=t&q=89
https://www.everplans.com/sites/default/files/blog-images/lilies-750_0.jpg

Waterlilies (which can be seen inside Kew Botanic Gardens (a must-visit place you have to see if you visit Greater London!) which holds the worlds largest collection of living plants from around the globe, along with the world's largest library of drawings and books on plants and flowers, and is over 250 years old with palatial architectures and hand-blown glass conservatories with spiral wrought-iron staircases, tree-bridge walks, and is maintained by over 650 botanists. (If you also love flowers and plants, then you'll love visiting Kew Gardens.)

http://images.wisegeek.com/pink-water-lilies.jpg

You may also like the interesting 400 year old Chelsea Physic Gardens in West London, and also the annual Chelsea Flower Show held each May in London - which is the world's largest floral show of imaginative designer gardens and interesting floral displays created by florists and landscape gardeners that celebrities and royalty from Monaco and the UK, etc, like to attend the show too... it's like the floral equivalent of a designer catwalk show!)

Here's a tribute video I made of Kew Gardens - it's nice to visit and see it during the different seasons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-dzbhtEiuw

An Irish Floating Garden design seen at the annual fashionable and stylish Chelsea Flower Show in London. (There was a creative garden design that was shaped like an Egyptian pyramid that people could walk through on display there a few years ago too.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwRuH2LcHeQ

The world's smallest lily was saved from extinction at London's Kew Gardens... it's so cute: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10569640/Worlds-smallest-water-lily-stolen-from-Kew-Gardens.html
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02789/Kew-Nymphaea-Therm_2789536b.jpg

I often think of the famous French painter Claude Monet's infamous waterlily paintings and I think of France whenever I see serene waterlilies on a lake. (A lily is the French national flower.)
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/191664e188d3b34aaf1322d42e23f0f5.png
http://i.picasion.com/resize85/5d5f926f0c63ddcf60dd5268deaac695.jpg

Lily-of-the-valley is a sweetly-scented and highly poisonous plant though (like foxgloves and deadly nightshade.) Lily-of-the-valley is a popular scent in fragrances.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Convallaria_majalis_0002.JPG/440px-Convallaria_majalis_0002.JPG

Step into the world's most dangerous garden.... if you dare: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/step-inside-worlds-most-dangerous-garden-if-you-dare-180952635/
https://thumbs-media.smithsonianmag.com/filer/f7/7c/f77cd891-436b-4e52-b7e6-0951783d3a06/42-57758996.jpg__1072x0_q85_upscale.jpg

Yes! I like all lilies. I get lilies for my birthday every year and each year a different kind of lilies. I bet you can guess why now ;)
So yeah I always have lilies in a vase at home especially on my birthday.

That worlds smallest lily is adorable. And that pyramid thing would be awesome to walk through.

[EL_BARBARO]

Not only ;)

btw I never tried ofc

wish you never needed

[EL_BARBARO]

Although not official, the azahar (Sp.) (orange blossom) could be considered as the flower of Valencia (Eastern Spain) due to the abundance of orange trees in that region, also in Andalusia, putting off a charactistical pleasant smell on the air while florishing...


http://www.alertadigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/senyera.jpg

http://guadanatur.es/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/azahar.jpg
Azahar (orange blossom)

http://fraganzias.es/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/azahar4destacada-1-1620x720.jpg


http://www.curiosfera.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/limonero-flor-y-fruto.jpg
Lemon blossom

[Kazimiera]

It's rare and very beautiful, yes...

It doesn't look like something you'd want to step on accidentally with bare feet.

[EL_BARBARO]

Very typical flowers in our patios --at least in southern Spain--, and among others, are the dama de noche (lady or queen of the night) and the jazmín (jasmine), offering during the warm nights down here --when people are at those patios taking advantage of the fresh-- a delighful fragance on the air. Both of them are, I believe, the first fragance I can remember from childness, aside from the orange blossom -- along with the lemon tree, the orange tree and other fruit trees are also present in the andalusian patios, besides of any kind of flowers (roses, carnations etc...):

http://smellparfums.es/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dama-de-noche1.jpg
Dama de noche (lady, queen of the night)


http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KFumfNM6FEE/UOsXZC94mGI/AAAAAAAAQc4/LtSMZnE3W_U/s1600/DSC_6191.jpg
Jazmín (jasmine)


http://www.hotel-r.net/im/hotel/es/patio-andaluz-4.jpg
A patio andaluz

Just an example of patio andaluz. It exists so many different types of patios as householders, varying according of the taste of the owners. Usually private, there are also public or open to public, used as dinner patios or simply to have a snack during those warm nights in the summertime.

[EL_BARBARO]

Also very typical down here --at least in Málaga-- are the florishing almond trees, very abundant down here, that already in the end of January (!!) begin to blossom. That blossom is very similar to the cherry tree blossom's --also very present on here, but especially in the region of Extremadura-- and it is thought both trees are related to each other in any way:


http://www.fotomatiz.es/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/almedros_en_flor.jpg


http://www.tenerinfo.com/info/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/santiago-concurso-almendros-800x445.jpg

[EL_BARBARO]

Our typical flower in Christmass time is the pascuero (poinsettia) or flores de Pascua. It adorns every place --public or private-- during Christmas time. It florished and reaches its zenith during that time, in Winter time too...


The plant can become very large and high when seeded (very easy to do by the way, by using even a small branch of it, but in a concrete time of the year):


http://blogdejardineria.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Poinsettia-Flores-de-Pascua.jpg

[Mikula]

National Tree of Czechia is small-leaved lime (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilia_cordata)

http://slideplayer.cz/slide/2346421/8/images/19/8.+N%C3%A1rodn%C3%AD+strom+Jedn%C3%ADm+z+n%C3%A1ro dn%C3%ADch+symbol%C5%AF+%C4%8Cesk%C3%A9+republiky+ je+L%C3%ADpa+Srd%C4%8Dit%C3%A1+(Tilia+Cordata).jpg

Its branches you can see at the Presidental flag
http://www.historickeprapory.cz/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/04-Sou%C4%8Dasn%C3%A1-prez-vlajka.jpg

as well as at badges of the Army of Czech Republic
http://www.acr.army.cz/images/id_10001_11000/10986/odznaklipratolestaodznmo_en.jpg

Its leaves you can see at logos of various Czech institutions, organizations, companies, political parties, etc.
http://www.povinneruceni.biz/pojistovny/img/ceska-pojistovna-big.jpg
http://www.tyrkys.cz/w/files/image/2015_obrazky/urad_prace.jpg
http://www.lidovciveseli.cz/img/logo-kdu-csl-spolehlivi-vlajka-mini.png

[Neon Knight]

What's with the Scots and Irish picking weeds to represent them?http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-Thistle-National-Emblem-of-Scotland/

The shamrock for Ireland comes from the story of St Patrick using it to explain the Trinity. Have you never heard that?

[Dick]

http://www.theweedblog.com/wp-content/uploads//ohcanada.jpg

:rolleyes:

[Oneeye]

http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-Thistle-National-Emblem-of-Scotland/

The shamrock for Ireland comes from the story of St Patrick using it to explain the Trinity. Have you never heard that?

Yes, it was a joke. xD Same with the thistles for Scotland having a back story to them.

[JohnSmith]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Bald_Eagle_Portrait.jpg

http://digitalnomad.nationalgeographic.com/files/2011/11/2-590x483.jpg

[Mikula]

Is birch a national tree of Russia?

[♥ Lily ♥]

Also very typical down here --at least in Málaga-- are the florishing almond trees, very abundant down here, that already in the end of January (!!) begin to blossom. That blossom is very similar to the cherry tree blossom's --also very present on here, but especially in the region of Extremadura-- and it is thought both trees are related to each other in any way:


http://www.fotomatiz.es/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/almedros_en_flor.jpg


http://www.tenerinfo.com/info/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/santiago-concurso-almendros-800x445.jpg

That's so beautiful, (it looks very similar to cherry blossom trees - my favourite trees!) I also love the other lovely pictures of flowers in Spain that you posted, gracias. The Basque floral emblem is amazing. I like your national floral emblem of carnations too which are also one of my favourite flowers.

[♥ Lily ♥]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Bald_Eagle_Portrait.jpg

http://digitalnomad.nationalgeographic.com/files/2011/11/2-590x483.jpg

Bald Eagles are incredible birds in their strength and the way they fly above the clouds when it rains unlike all the other birds.... and it's an awesome national symbol for the US. What type of bird is that in the second image please? :)

[♥ Lily ♥]

http://www.theweedblog.com/wp-content/uploads//ohcanada.jpg

:rolleyes:

:lmao

[Kazimiera]

What type of bird is that in the second image please? :)

I think the Americans call it "Thanksgiving Dinner".

[♥ Lily ♥]

Is birch a national tree of Russia?

Siberian Fir. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_trees

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Abies_sibirica_HDR.jpg/220px-Abies_sibirica_HDR.jpg

[♥ Lily ♥]

I think the Americans call it "Thanksgiving Dinner".

Oh, ok, thanks. :(

[MissMischief]

Italy's national flower is the lily, and it symbolically represents purity and refined beauty.

http://i.imgur.com/vwdb1XW.jpg

[Dick]

Oh, ok, thanks. :(

It's a turkey. Tastes like chicken.

[JohnSmith]

Bald Eagles are incredible birds in their strength and the way they fly above the clouds when it rains unlike all the other birds.... and it's an awesome national symbol for the US. What type of bird is that in the second image please? :)

It is a male Turkey.

[Svipdag]

I agree with you. I also like lilies more than roses. :)

I like lilies more than roses because I can smell lilies. Owing to a head injury received in an automobile accident in 1971,
I CANNOT SMELL ROSES. I have not found any other flower which I cannot smell, but, to me, roses are absolutely odorless,
which is sad because I used to love their fragrance.

[UkrainianGirl]

I like lilies more than roses because I can smell lilies. Owing to a head injury received in an automobile accident in 1971,
I CANNOT SMELL ROSES. I have not found any other flower which I cannot smell, but, to me, roses are absolutely odorless,
which is sad because I used to love their fragrance.

That's sad. I am sorry about your head injury. And yes roses smell nice too. Maybe one day you might smell them again or you think nothing will get better regarding that?