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How to Give Flowers
By Nick Krewen
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So Who's Giving What?
According to the website flowers.org.uk, the top 10 most popular cut flowers in 2006 were:
Rose
Lily of the Valley
Freesia
Sweet Pea
Alstroemeria
Gerbera
Tulip
Narcissus
Dendrobium orchid
Hyacinth
Other flower fun facts:
Germany is the world's largest market for cut flower imports.
The Netherlands is the world's leading exporter of cut flowers.
The lead character in the film Maria Full of Grace works in a Colombian rose factory removing thorns and leaves from the stems before export.
During the 1980s, U.S. authorities repeatedly seized cocaine hidden in flower crates arriving at Miami's airport from Colombia.
The world's oldest living rose bush is thought to be 1,000 years old. Today, it continues to bloom on the wall of the Hildesheim Cathedral in Germany.
Shakespeare refers to roses more than 50 times throughout his writings.
Axl Rose of Guns 'n Roses is a rocker. Poison, also rockers, recorded Every Rose Has its Thorn. And Thin Lizzy -- also rockers but from Ireland, the land of rosy cheeks -- recorded Black Rose. Coincidence… or cabal of evil?
